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Editor Field Types

The following editor field types are available in Sling CMS under the path /libs/sling-cms/components/editor/fields:

Button

Renders a button.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/button

Properties

• onclick - a Javascript method to execute when the button is clicked
• label - the text for the button

File

Renders multiple file upload fields.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/file

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• accepts - the mime types accepted by the field, the default are: image/,audio/,video/,application/json,text/css,application/pdf*

Hidden

Renders a hidden field

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/hidden

Properties

• name - the name attribute for the field
• value - the value of the hidden field

Path

Renders a path picker. Currently this uses HTML5 data lists to display the dropdown of available paths.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/path

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• additionalParams - any additional parameters to append to the query for further filtering
• basePath - the path under which to search, by default /content
• titleProperty - the property to retrieve a title for the result
• type - the node type to limit the results, by default nt:hierarchyNode

Repeating

Renders a repeating set of fields.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/repeating

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• type - the type of field to render

RichText

Renders a rich text editor using Summernote.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/richtext

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required

Select

Renders a select field. This field can either specify a list of options in a property, as a subnode or use a script to render the options.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/select

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• multiple - if set to true the field will allow multiple options to be selected
• options - if set, this will be used to populate the options for the select field. These should be and array of strings in the format {LABEL}={VALUE}
• optionsScript - the absolute path to a script to execute to get the select options

Taxonomy

Renders taxonomy selection field.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/taxonomy

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• basePath - the path under which to search, by default /etc/taxonomy

Text

Renders an input field.

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/text

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• defaultValue - the default value for the field if no value has been saved already
• type - the type of input field, by default this is text

Textarea

Renders a textarea

Resource Type: sling-cms/components/editor/fields/textarea

Properties

• disabled - if set to true the field will be disabled
• label - the label text for the field
• name - the name attribute for the field
• required - if set to true the field will be required
• defaultValue - the default value for the field if no value has been saved already