[solved] store intial value to News field definitions

[blackhawk]

I'm working with CMSMS 1.11.11

I would like to concatenate a string value onto a news field definition, from my summary or details template. This way when the user opens their news article, they will see a value added to that input field definition.

If the field definition already has content, this value will simply be added to whatever is there. Is this possible?

This is what I tried so far

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{foreach from=$items item=entry}
{if isset($entry->fields)}
{foreach from=$entry->fields item='field'}
{if $field->name == 'myInputField'}
{$field|cat:'something'}
{/if}
{/foreach}
{/if}
{/foreach}

I also tried

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{$field->displayvalue|cat:'something'}

, and

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{$field->value|cat:'something'}

But no juice...

Thanks for any advice

[blackhawk]

I solved my mystery. If I create a drop-down field definition for articles, I can manually type in some options in which any article can select and associated with. This is a wonderful workaround for what I need.