Comment 4 for bug 2017673

I tested this (thanks for the excellent step-by-step testing instructions!) and it works great!

Fix committed to main for inclusion in 3.12.

I have two small quibbles, which I will add follow up bugs for:

1) If you try to add item alerts via the Item Status page (which is still in AngularJS), it does not recognize the default.

2) When setting the default the list of options only appears after you start typing so you have to have somewhat of an idea what it is called. Ideally, the full list should appear immediately and then be filtered down by typing.