How do you make a field default value work?

[JimSampson]

I have it the default values in the field default space, but when I create a new record, the fields are still blank. 

[ChelseaRozek]

It's working for me on a file geodatabase feature class, what's your data source?

[RobertBorchert]

Did you create the default on a feature that was joined at the time.

Is the feature Subtyped?