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Component Link fields

Add a Component link field to a Schema to allow content authors to create a link to a Component. You can also allow an author to add a multimedia Component using this field type.

About this task

You can specify the Schemas upon which the selectable Components must be based, or you can allow the content author to link to any Component.

For example, if you wanted to allow an author to add any kind of link to the Component, you do not need to specify a Component. On the other hand, if you want to ensure that author links to a specific kind of content, you can select an appropriate schema that allows for that content only.

Procedure

  1. In the Design tab or Metadata Design tab of the Schema that you are creating, fill in the following fields:
    • XML Name—this is the XML name of the field. The XML name can only contain letters without accents (A-Z, a-z), digits (0-9), underscores "_" and/or hyphens "-". The first character of the XML name must be a letter or an underscore character.
    • Description—a description of the field. This description is used as a label in the Component.
    • Type—select Component Link.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • To ensure that content authors can only link to a multimedia Component based on specific Multimedia Schemas, select one or more Available Schemas and add it to the Allowed Schema pane.
    • To allow content authors to add any multimedia content based on any multimedia schema, select nothing.
  3. Set the following optional parameters for this field:
    • Multiple values
    • Default value — select a default Multimedia Link from available Multimedia Components
    • Mandatory
    • Defining custom URLs