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General Field Settings

This explains General Field Settings. For an overview check out Understanding Data....


Every field has some general settings which apply to all fields. It's the information every field has to describe it's label, help-text etc.

Configuring the All field-type

Any field you open will contain the UI to configure the All fields. This is what it looks like:

  • Name is the is the label to be shown (multi-language)
    Important: the name is not the name used in code, which shouldn't change - this is the visible label
  • Default Value what is prefilled when you create a new item
  • Notes / Description
    • Placeholder
    • Notes a short help-text which will appear in field notes
  • Edit UI Settings
    • Visible show this field in the UI
    • Disabled if it's disabled (grayed out)
    • Required if it's required
    • DisableTranslate
    • IsEphemeral for temporary variables which won't be saved
  • Validation... what rule it must match to allow saving

Technical Information

This content type has a special name @All.

History

  1. Introduced in EAV 1.0 / 2sxc 1.0