Field Types / Data field

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The Data field is like a read-only textarea. It can be used to store data as-is in the JSON format, if your website project has an API that creates Records based on some external output. By using this field, the editors can see the field, but they can not modify the data in it.

Basic Configuration:¶

        source:
            type: data
            label: 'Source data'
            postfix: The original data, as retrieved from the API

It'll look like this in the Bolt backend:

Example usage in templates:¶

{{ record.source }}

Input Sanitisation¶

All content in this field type will be sanitised before it gets inserted into the database. This means that only 'whitelisted' HTML like <b> and <img src="…"> is kept, while things like <embed> and <script> are scrubbed from the field before being stored. As a site-implementor you can control the whitelisted tags and attributes using the following section in config.yaml:

htmlcleaner:
    allowed_tags: [ div, span, p, br, hr, s, u, strong, em, i, b, li, ul, ol, …, … ]
    allowed_attributes: [ id, class, style, name, value, href, src, alt, title, …, … ]

To disable sanitisation for this field, you can add sanitise: false to the field config, like so:

        title:
            type: data
            sanitise: false