Field Data Type: Custom

This explains Custom Fields. For an overview check out Understanding Data....

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Custom data is a basic data type. It's used to store JSON for special use cases.

Sub-Types

• custom-gps
• custom-json

Recommendation

Since 2sxc 10 there is a special AsDynamic which you can use to work with JSON data in Razor templates.

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Technical Information

Storage in the SQL Database in the EAV-Model

This is converted to a string when stored as a string in the DB, and converted back to a boolean when the data is loaded.

Storage in the SQL Database in the JSON-Model

This is simply stored as a string value in json, so kind of JSON in JSON.

History

1. Introduced in EAV 1.0 2sxc 1.0