Langid 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 is like a Set field but intended for providing language ID options where phrases can be provided by existing languages_typename_LANGID phrases. It is used by the Multilang field to specify the language used for values in a particular field or fields.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Id field
    • Text field
      • Set field
        • Langid field

Additional Properties

As for Set fields.

Required Phrases

No additional phrases beyond those required for Set fields.

Database

Langid fields are stored in the database as

 fieldname VARCHAR(255)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

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