Custom Objects
To create new or edit existing custom object open the admin menu by click in the cog wheel in the top right hand corner:
This will get you into the list view of all existing custom objects. Click the New button to add a new one.
When you edit or create a new custom item you'll see the edit form where you must fill in the singular name and the plural name. Both are required as in different places in the user interface we need one or the other.
On the detail page you'll see a line chart of all Custom Items created in time. Bellow the chart is preview of all Custom Fields that belong to this Custom Object and in the right hand column there is timeline overview of who and when created/updated the Custom Object.
Notice in the custom object edit page there is a second tab called Fields. It contains a drop down field with all available field types. When you want to add a new custom field to the custom object then you have to decide what type the field will be.
- Checkbox group - Can render one or more check boxes
- Country list - Automatically generated list of countries
- Date - Allows user to select date only
- Datetime - Allows user to select date and time
- E-mail - Validates the value in this field to be an email address
- Hidden - Useful for internal values that should not be visible in the user interface
- Number - Only numeric values can be stored in this field
- Phone number - Validates the value to be in a phone format
- Radio group - Renders radio switch field
- Select - Similar to Radio group. Users can select one option from several
- Multiselect - Similar to checkbox group. Users can select multiple options
- Text - Useful for one line text values
- Textarea - Useful for multi line text values
- URL - Validates the value to be a URL
Custom field edit form appears when you click the edit button (with pencil icon) next to the existing field or when you select a field type for a new field in a modal window like this:
Each field type can have different options in the custom field edit form. For example select, multiselect, radio and checkbox fields will let you configure the options like this:
Now is a good time to create some Custom Items.