Why won't FrameMaker use the default attribute I set in the EDD?

[Heather Thomas]

Hello everyone,

Here is my scenario:
Create a new concept.Insert <fig> within <conbody>. <p><image> is inserted automatically within <fig> (because of EDD). **The same problem occurs if I only insert <image>.When I click in the Attributes pod, on align, the bottom says: "align Type: Optional Choice Default: left". However, the actual value in the table is "<no value> and the image appears center aligned.
Save the concept.Close the concept.Re-open the concept.<image> now has align = center.

Here is an excerpt from my EDD for the concept, within the element <image>.
Name: align     Choice     Optional 
Choices:    left, right, center, current
Default:    left

I have tried an Optional String with a default value as well but in this case the default is also ignored. It does not seem that one can set a Default for a Required Attribute.

This is not a show-stopper because we can manually set the attribute for each image and it is saved in the .xml. However, I would like to understand how this works (or doesn't) and it would also be convenient to have it default to a left alignment whenever an image is added.

Thanks in advance for any response!

Heather
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