Fields 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

This field allows the selection of field (names) from a specified dataset. This is useful if you want to capture what particular field should be used for a specific purpose.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Set field
    • Fields field

Additional Properties

As for Set fields except for

Name	Default Value	Required	Description	Notes
datasetid	n/a	YES	ID of dataset from which to list fields.
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

Namedset fields are stored in the database as

fieldname VARCHAR(255)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
    name => 'id_field',
    type => 'fields',
    datasetid => 'eprint',
}    

Store mulltiple field values

{
    name => 'review_fields',
    type => 'fields',
    multiple => 1,
    datasetid => 'eprint',
}