Field Types

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Each ContentType is defined by a couple of fixed, required fields that are used internally, but otherwise you're free to define how the content in a ContentType is structured.

For instance, in an 'event', you'll need a date on which the event takes place. Whereas, for a 'book review', you'll need an author and publisher of the book. Other commonly used fields are title, introduction or maybe an image.

Some of the Fields are fixed, which means that every ContentType has them. For example, every ContentType has a Field for id, slug, datecreated and ownerid.

This section explains the different types of fields that are available and what options one can use with them.

All fields have a general structure, like this:

        name:
            type: name-of-field-type
            option: value
            option: value
            ..

All fields have a number of common options which you can use on all field types. These are mostly different ways to show information to the editor, but also include things like making a field required.

See the section "Common options for all fields" for a more in-depth explanation of these fields.

Other pages in this section:

• Common options
• Text field
• Slug field
• Article field
• Redactor field
• HTML field
• Image field
• File field
• Email field
• Embed field
• Select field
• Markdown field
• Textarea field
• Collection field
• Number (float) field
• Hidden field
• Data field
• Checkbox field
• Date field
• Imagelist field
• Filelist field
• Templateselect field
• Set field