Text field

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

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

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Metadata Fields: Boolean - Compound - Multilang - Date - Time - Float - Int - Itemref - Pagerange - Set - Namedset - Subject - Text - Email - Longtext - Name - Url

• Metadata
  • Text field

Description

This is a very simple type of metadata field, which is used as a basis for several others.

It stores a string of text. The maximum possible length of the string is 255 bytes.

Note that 255 bytes does not mean 255 characters! UTF-8 can use 1 to 4 bytes to store a character. ASCII characters (a-z,0-9 etc) only use 1 byte so it will store 255 ASCII characters, but less of latin and much less of chinese.

Properties

name	default	description
sql_index	0	as for Metadata but with a different default.
text_index	1	as for Metadata but with a different default.

Required Phrases

None

Database

Text fields are stored in the database as

fieldname VARCHAR(255)