Using custom field types

Questions
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Good afternoon. I was wondering. I am in need of creating a custom field type. Even following the tutorial it shows all the way up to building the new field. It seems to be working fine but I do not really know how to use it after that. Not in code and I cant seem to find it anywhere in the back office.

I can from any c# class do the following:
var test = new FieldTypes.CustomTextFieldTypeMetadata();
However attaching it to a template is another matter. I realise I am missing something here. Any ideas?

Litium version: 7.2.3

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You need to create a field definition using your custom field type, then you can add it to a template. If you go to the Settings > the module you want to use the field in > Fields, you can create the field by clicking New and selecting your custom field type in the list. Then you can go to Field Templates, edit a template and add the newly created field.

Programmatically, you create the field with something like (inject the services in the constructor):

var field = new FieldDefinition<ProductArea>("MyField", "CustomFieldTypeName")
{
	CanBeGridColumn = false,
	CanBeGridFilter = false,
	MultiCulture = false,
};

using (_securityContextService.ActAsSystem())
{
	_fieldDefinitionService.Create(field);
}

Then it depends on if you want to create a new template or add it to an existing one. In the Accelerator you can check out Definitions for some more examples.

3

You can also look att

ProductsDefinitionSetup.cs

to see how the initial setup is created.

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