Creating a plain text field

About this task

You can create a plain text field in which content authors can enter alphanumeric values into a field.

Procedure

  1. From 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 Text.
  2. Specify how many rows the field should contain.
  3. To allow multiple field of this type, select Allow multiple values. This setting allows a content author to add more than one value to this field.
  4. (Optional) To add default text to this field, enter text in the Default Value field. This text will appear in the field when a content author creates new content based on this Schema.
  5. If you want to enforce that a field is filled in, ensure that the Mandatory check-box is selected.
  6. In the Custom URL field, type the URL of to which you would like the description text of this field to link. For more information about Custom URLs, see Defining custom URLs.