Field

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Fields are managed by the "Field" entity. The functionality of creating, changing and deleting fields is available.

Field management page (/admin/field/list/*/*, where * is the entity type and entity type identifier):

• Go back - link to the entity page;
• Field type - text field, text area, boolean (checkbox), file, binary data (blob), taxonomy, meta tags;
• Name - machine name of the field;
• Required - is it required to fill in;
• Title - displayed title of the field;
• Description - displayed description of the field;
• Weight - the larger the value, the lower the field is located (negative values ​​are available, for example, -10);
• Actions - field can be edited and deleted.

The page for adding a text field (similarly for editing) is shown below (/admin/field/create/*/*, where * is the entity type and field type identifier):

• Name - machine name of the field;
• Required - is it required to fill in;
• Title - displayed title of the field;
• Description - displayed description of the field;
• Count - the number of instances of the field;
• Field weight - weight for sorting.

Fields are provided by base and custom entities, depending on the field type - the set of settings entry fields may vary. An example of basic entity types where the functionality for working with fields is used: content (types of materials), user (user roles), taxonomy (tags), etc.