[TYPO3] BE: drop down lists always preselected

[media.res | alex widschwendter]

hi,

> our Institute has a problem with a 3.8.1 installation on FreeBSD 4.10,
> php 5.0.5 on apache 2.0.55. It is kind of vage so sorry for the not very
> descriptive subject ... I also must prepend I am no typo3 expert - I am
> the guy who takes care of the unix server where typo3 runs on.
> 
> The problem my typo3 users state is some drop down menues in the backend
> are preselected with values where it should not be. Example: 'Edit page
> header | Access:' is always preset to 'hide at logon' and though it's
> possible to change that value to 'Show at any login' the default value
> is never empty as it should be (according to our typo3 experts here).
> 
> Another example is when the page is of the type shortcut: Then the drop
> down menue of 'Shortcut mode' is always preselected to 'First subpage'
> and changeable to 'Random subpage' - but it's never empty by default.
> 
> I searched the archives, googled etc. but I couldn't find anything
> related. I played with all kinds of php settings a lot, but nothing
> helped. Would maybe upgrading to php 5.0.5 help?

have a look at your page ts. maybe the settings are preconfigured there?

hth alex