Keywords field

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Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Description

Stores a list of keywords as a longtext field but allows searching for exact matches on individual keyword phrases separated by a user-specifiable separator.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Id field
    • Keywords field

Additional Properties

As for Id fields except for

Name	Default Value	Required	Description	Notes
match	EQ	NO	How to match against search criteria.	Different from Id field (EX). Could be set to SET.
input_rows	10	NO	How many rows for the field in the input form.	The default value for this property is taken from cfg.d/field_property_defaults.pl.
maxlength	65535	NO	Limit the maximum length of text that can be input.	Different from Metadata default (255). Maximum length could be as much as 4294967295 (over 4 billion).
sql_index	0	NO	Whether field should be index for quicker lookup by the database.	Different from Metadata default (1).
separator	,	NO	How to separate listed keywords.

Required Phrases

No additional phrases beyond those required for Longtext fields.

Database

Keywords fields are stored in the database as

fieldname LONGTEXT

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
  name => 'keywords',
  type => 'keywords',
}

Use a semi-colon (;) as a separator.

{
  name => 'terms',
  type => 'keywords',
  separator => ';',
}