How does one initialize a global field?

I originally had an auto-enter calculation which assigned a text value to a global field. But this does not appear to work (if it ever did.) I have tried a number of approaches in the database definition for the field but eventually gave up and created a script to initialize the value.

Is there a better way to do it?

A startup script is a good way to initialize your globals. For globals that might get changed during the session, it's good to re-initialize them every time before they are needed.

I've always used a startup script to do it, just because i don't trust auto enter's especially seeing as they can't monitor values in other tables, though i wonder, would a calculation with global storage work fine?

Cheers,

~Genx