Customize your fields

Your fields are what contains your data. They belong to a collection, so in order to customize them, go to your Collection settings by enabling the Layout Editor mode.

Here's an example of what you'll see in the Fields tab:

Basic settings

As you can see below - (1), you can change how your field's name will be displayed to your users.

You can also add a description (2) which will be displayed when you edit your data via this field.

Other options are also available:

Read only: Enable if you don't want anyone to modify the data of this field.
Filtering enabled: Disable if you don't want anyone to use a filter on this field.

Edit settings

This section is where you will adjust how you edit this field. First, select a widget (1).

After selecting a widget, its settings panel should open automatically. You can however reopen that panel at any time by clicking on the cog icon (2).

List of edit widgets

An edit widget is an interface tool which will be displayed when you edit your data. Here are a few examples:

The list of available edit widgets will depend on the type of your field. Here is the complete list:

Field type

Available edit widgets

String

text input (default)
textarea
rich text editor
dropdown
radio button
file picker
color picker
JSON editor
address

Enum

text input (default)
dropdown
radio button

Number

number input (default)
dropdown
radio button

Date

date picker

DateOnly

dateonly picker

Array (of string, enum, number,...)

text input (default)
carousel editor
checkboxes

JSON

JSON editor

Point

Text input (default)

File reference

text input
file picker (default)

Reference

default

Display settings

A display widget is an interface tool which will be displayed when you display your data.

Select a display widget (1).

This is how you will control how your data is displayed in your views (Table View, Summary View, related data views, etc).

After selecting a widget, its settings panel should open automatically. You can however reopen that panel at any time by clicking on the cog icon (2).