Custom controller for setting a default value on a field upon record creation

create-actions.js

({
    /* file: ./custom/modules/Accounts/clients/base/views/create-actions/create-actions.js */
    
	extendsFrom: 'CreateView',
	
	initialize: function(options){
		this._super('initialize', [options]);
		
		/* this is where I set the default value for a given field, in this case
		it is the value 'Angel Inc.' to the 'name' field in the Accounts module. 
		How one derives the value is irrelevant and can involve querying another system,
		a custom endpoint on the Sugar API or a static value, as in this case.
		*/
		var myDefaultValue = 'Angel Inc.'; 
		
		this.model.set('name', myDefaultValue);
	},
})