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Arclanguage fields are stored in the database as
 
Arclanguage fields are stored in the database as
 
  fieldname VARCHAR(255)
 
  fieldname VARCHAR(255)
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== API ==
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See [[API:EPrints/MetaField/Arclanguage|API page]].
  
 
== Examples ==
 
== Examples ==

Latest revision as of 09:44, 9 July 2024

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects


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 - Recaptcha3 - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid


Description

This field provides a set of language options but rather than being provided by the options attribute of the field configuration, the languages specified for the archive (in $c->{languages} is used.

This field is only useful for multi-langauge repository where you might want to record the language metadata for a data object or a specific metadata field is captured in. However, you are probably better off using the Multilang field. Therefore, this field is somewhat deprecated.

Inheritance

Additional Properties

As for Set fields except for:

Name Default Value Required? Description Notes
options n/a NO Options from which to choose. NOT inherited from Set field. Options provided automatically.

Required Phrases

No additional phrases beyond those required for Set fields.

Database

Arclanguage fields are stored in the database as

fieldname VARCHAR(255)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
    name => 'language', 
    type => 'arclanguage',
}