Seed deprecated in SimpleXML on Splunk 5.x?

[phoenixdigital]

I was curious if seed has been deprecated in Splunk 5.x?

As this no longer pre-populates with the seed value (ignore spaces in XML needed to post here)

    <fieldset>
    <input type="text" token="start_date">
      <label>start date</label>
      < default>< /default>
      < seed>-5mon@mon< /seed>
    < /input>
    <input type="text" token="end_date">
      <label>end date</label>
      < default>< /default>
      < seed>-1mon@mon< /seed>
    < /input>
  </fieldset>

As documented here
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Viz/Buildandeditforms

Edit: It should be noted I attempted removing the default elements but it had no effect.

[Leo · Accepted solution]

The seed parameter is ignored due to a bug in 5.0. However, < default > accepts the same value you've used in < seed > to prepopulate the field, and can be used instead as a workaround.

[Leo]

seed was the original default parameter used only for text fields until the new 'default' parameter has been introduced and made common for all inputs.

The bug has been filed.

[phoenixdigital]

Cool I did suspect it might be a bug. I am guessing it has already been reported or should I report it?

The more I was looking at it though what is the difference between seed and default anyway?