Supported Field Types

LexasCMS supports a variety of different field types, each with their own set of configurable options.

Boolean

The boolean field type is a simple yes/no field.

Field type identifier: boolean

This field type has no additional configuration options.

Date / Time

The date/time field type allows the input of date and date/time values.

Field type identifier: dateTime

Additional configuration options:

Name	Type	Required	Description
format	String	No	Specify whether the field is a `date` or `datetime` input. Default: `datetime`

Decimal

The decimal field type allows the input of numbers with a fixed amount of decimal places. For integers see the integer field type.

Note

To ensure that the number of decimal places can be guaranteed, the decimal field type returns values as a string.

Field type identifier: decimal

Additional configuration options:

Name	Type	Required	Description
min	Number	No	The minimum value for the field.
max	Number	No	The maximum value for the field.
precision	Number (Integer)	No	The precision for the field between 1 and 10. Default: `2`

Image

The image field type enables you to upload and link an image asset to your content item.

Field type identifier: image

This field type has no additional configuration options.

Integer

The integer field type allows the input of round numbers. For decimals see the decimal field type.

Field type identifier: integer

Additional configuration options:

Name	Type	Required	Description
min	Number (Integer)	No	The minimum value for the field.
max	Number (Integer)	No	The maximum value for the field.

Markdown

The Markdown field type provides a WYSIWYG style Markdown editor for creating and managing content in Markdown format.

Field type identifier: markdown

Name	Type	Required	Description
minLength	Number (Integer)	No	The minimum length of the field’s value.
maxLength	Number (Integer)	No	The maximum length of the field’s value.

Relationship

The relationship field type enables you to create links between content items.

Field type identifier: relationship

Additional configuration options:

Name	Type	Required	Description
singular	Boolean	No	Specify whether or not this is a one-to-one relationship. Default: `false`
unionType	Boolean	No	Specify whether or not this relationship can contain multiple content types. Default: `false`
minItems	Number (Integer)	No	The minimum numbers of items that this relationship must contain.
maxItems	Number (Integer)	No	The maximum number of items that this relationship can contain.
contentTypes	Array	Yes	An array of content types identifiers, specifying the types of content that can be added to this relationship.

Select (Dropdown)

The select field type allows the input of a value from a predefined list of options using a dropdown.

Field type identifier: select

Additional configuration options:

Name	Type	Required	Description
options	Array	No	An array of strings, specifying the available options to choose from.

Text (Single line)

The single line text field type allows for the input of a single line of text up to 500 characters in length.

Field type identifier: text

Additional configuration options:

Name	Type	Required	Description
minLength	Number (Integer)	No	The minimum length of the field’s value.
maxLength	Number (Integer)	No	The maximum length of the field’s value.
matchPatterns	[MatchPattern]	No	An array of up to 10 MatchPattern objects that the fields value should match.

Text (Single line) / Match Pattern

A match pattern allows you to define a regular expression that a field’s value must match with in order to be valid.

Match pattern objects have the following structure:

Name	Type	Required	Description
pattern	String	Yes	The JavaScript regular expression that the value should match.
flags	String	No	Regular expression flags that should be applied to the pattern.
message	String	No	A custom error message to be displayed when the field’s value does not match the pattern.

Text (Multi line)

The multi-line text field type is similar to the single line text field type. The main differences are that it allows for multiple lines of text and can also accept values up to 50,000 characters in length.

Field type identifier: textLong