Presentation hints (default value, and rw/ro are the ones I have tested) do not work when the record is in "new" mode. They work just fine in edit and view modes.
Closing this. Hints do work in "new" mode; problem was simply that an invalid default string was being supplied for one of the hints, resulting in a javascript error (next_id was not a valid object in the given namespace).
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Closing this. Hints do work in "new" mode; problem was simply that an invalid default string was being supplied for one of the hints, resulting in a javascript error (next_id was not a valid object in the given namespace).