Referencing fields

This page describes two ways in which you may define the type of a field in Magnolia. A field definition must contain – at minimum – either a class or a fieldType property, telling Magnolia what type of field it should render.

Introduction

The definition by class is the traditional (older) way, very well known to Java developers. The definition by fieldType has been implemented in Magnolia with the release of the 5.7 branch and is oriented towards front-end developers who may have only very little or no knowledge of Java.

Examples

Short field names

Old name	New name	Since
UI module
basicTextCodeField Removed, previously deprecated.	code	5.7
basicUploadField	basicUpload	5.7
checkBoxField	checkbox	5.7
compositeField	composite	5.7
dateField	date	5.7
hiddenField	hidden	5.7
linkField	link	5.7
linkFieldSelect	linkFieldSelection	5.7
multiField	multiValue	5.7
nodeTypeField	nodeTypeSelect	5.7
optionsField	optionGroup	5.7
passwordField	password	5.7
selectField	select	5.7
staticField	static	5.7
switchableField	switchable	5.7
textArea	richText	5.7
textField	text	5.7
twinColSelectField	twinColSelect	5.7
workbenchField	workbench	5.7
*DAM module*
damUploadField	damUpload	5.7
damWorkbenchField	damWorkbench	5.7
Content tags module
tagField	tag	5.7
taggingAwareDependenciesField	taggingAwareDependencies	5.7
*Content dependencies module*
referenceField	dependencies	5.7
Content editor module
articleBlockPicker	blockPicker	5.7
collapsibleCompositeField	collapsibleComposite	5.7
expandingLinkField	expandingLink	5.7
expandingTextField	expandingText	5.7
peekField	peek	5.7
placeholderText	placeholderText	5.7
refreshableTextField	refreshableText	5.7

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Referencing fields

Introduction

Examples