I have a custom document type called health article.

When I use the API to create a new document, it does not honor the default values for the fields that I have set in the CMS Site Manager. I.e., I have a field IncludeInWeeklyAlert with the default setting to true. When I create a new node of this type, I receive an error that the field cannot be null.

var tree = new TreeProvider(UserInfoProvider.GetUserInfo("administrator"));

            using (var parentNode = tree.SelectSingleNode(CMSContext.CurrentSiteName, parentNodePath, "##ALL##", true, "CMS.MenuItem", false))
            {
                var dataClass = DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClass(CustomFunctions.CustomArticle);

                if (dataClass == null)
                {
                    throw new Exception("Given document type does not exist.");
                }

                // Create a new instance of the Tree node
                var newNode = TreeNode.New(CustomFunctions.CustomArticle, tree);

                // Set the document's properties
                    // Insert the document into the content tree
                    newNode.Insert(parentNode);

How can I use the API to get the default value, so that I do not have to put the default value in more than 1 place?

Thanks,
Joe Hoppe