# Changing the default values for Enterprise form fields

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/changing-the-default-values-for-enterprise-form-fields/978>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/changing-the-default-values-for-enterprise-form-fields/978 "2019-04-15T21:18:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sameh\_abdalla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@sameh\_abdalla](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/sameh_abdalla)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/changing-the-default-values-for-enterprise-form-fields/978/1 "2019-04-15T21:18:34Z")

</div>

Hi,  
I’m trying to increase the default value of the Enterprise form fileupload field size from 1 MB to 5 MB  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/bloomreach1/original/1X/ecead16392d87b537f458c0778901ee4b1671ac9.png)  
I found that under eforms:fileupload JCR node

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/bloomreach1/original/1X/0b030d9379c3ff8c9da963ebf506dcec1611b924.png)  
which is being built from the storage when starting hippo, and I can change that value by modifying it in storage\repository\nodetypes\custom\_nodetypes.xml, but that change will be overridden when the storage is rebuilt.  
where I can change that value and my change remains permanent?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jasper.floor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/jasper.floor/32/28_2.png) [@jasper.floor](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/jasper.floor)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/changing-the-default-values-for-enterprise-form-fields/978/2 "2019-04-15T22:02:33Z")

</div>

You should not make changes in that file, or in general anywhere directly in storage. Each storage directory is local to a node.

The default seems to be defined in the cnd. Off the top of my head I can’t think of a nice way of doing this. You could of course checkout the project and recompile it with a larger default.

You can create a reusable field group. Then you can change the default from there.

> **[Reusable Field Groups - BloomReach Experience - Open Source CMS](https://documentation.bloomreach.com/library/enterprise/enterprise-features/enterprise-forms/reusable-groups.html)**
>
> Open Source Enterprise Content Management

In any case I suggest filing an improvement issue.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sameh\_abdalla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@sameh\_abdalla](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/sameh_abdalla)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/changing-the-default-values-for-enterprise-form-fields/978/3 "2019-04-18T12:29:52Z")

</div>

Thanks @jasper.floor