Joomla! Documentation™

How to group custom fields

Articles in this Series

1. Introduction
2. Parameters for all Custom Fields
3. Calendar Field
4. Checkboxes Field
5. Color Field
6. Editor Field
7. Integer Field
8. List Field
9. List of Images Field
10. Media Field
11. Radio Field
12. Repeatable Field
13. Sql Field
14. Text Field
15. Textarea Field
16. Url Field
17. User Field
18. Usergroup Field
19. How can you group custom fields
20. What components are supporting custom fields
21. Implementation into your component
22. Use custom fields in your overrides

How can you group custom fields - Field Groups and Categories

If you create a custom field you will see the fields tab when you create an article or a contact or a third party extension that supports custom fields. Do you want to create many fields and want to make everything clear? Then you should classify the fields into groups and categories.

You can assign a field to a field group and apply it to all categories

If you do assign a field group but no category to your field, it appears when you create a new article or create a new contact in the tab of the field group. It appears regardless of the assignment of a category.

You can assign no field group but a category to a field

If you do assign no field group but a category to your field, it appears when you create a new article or create a new contact in the tab "Fields". But it appears only if the article belongs to the category. If you create an article in other category you do not see a tab for managing custom fields.

You assign a field group and a category to a field

If you do assign a field group and a category to your field, it appears when you create a new article or create a new contact in the tab with the name of the field group. But it appears only if the article belongs to the category.

You can assign neither a field group nor a category to a field

If you do not assign a field group or a category to your field, it appears when you create a new article or create a new contact in the tab "Fields".

Prev: Usergroup Field

Next: Components supporting custom fields