Text

There are multiple options to configure an input field as text. A few parameters are available to all of them:

Text

This field may only contain unformatted plain text.

Text (Multi)

A text (multi) property may contain multiple text fields, though it is not possible to enrich them with any kind of markup. Nevertheless, you still can make spell checking available and you may also set a maximum number of text fields (by default, there is no limitation on the number of text fields within this property).

Text (Fixed Size)

This is an input field for content depending on size and font. The width, height and font of the field each can be configured by parameters. The field wraps words at the end of text lines automatically with hyphens and supports spell checking. The content is saved in XML format to preserve manual and automatic line breaks. On the right you can see an example of the format in which the content of such a field is saved.

<property name="sophora-demo:fixedSizeText">
	<value>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&#xD;
		&lt;sophora&gt;&#xD;
			&lt;logicalContent&gt;&#xD;
				&lt;line&gt;A text field of 400 x 300 pixels per page in font "Arial" (16 pt). Only one page is allowed. This field type supports automatic hyphenation.&lt;/line&gt;&#xD;
				&lt;manualhyphenations /&gt;&#xD;
			&lt;/logicalContent&gt;&#xD;
			&lt;visualContent&gt;&#xD;
				&lt;line&gt;A text field of 400 x 300 pixels per page in &lt;/line&gt;&#xD;
				&lt;line&gt;font "Arial" (16 pt). Only one page is allo-&lt;/line&gt;&#xD;
				&lt;line&gt;wed. This field type supports automatic hy-&lt;/line&gt;&#xD;
				&lt;line&gt;phenation.&lt;/line&gt;&#xD;
			&lt;/visualContent&gt;&#xD;
		&lt;/sophora&gt;
	</value>
</property>

Text (with Styles)

This field may contain rich text, i.e. formatted text with bold or italic letters etc.

Text (with Teaser Image)

This field type allows you to provide a teaser image in addition to the unformatted text. A teaser image is added to the document as a new component, when the user drags an image document and drops it onto the label associated with this input field.

In order to add a teaser image to an input field of the type Text (with Teaser Image), the document needs not only the string property configured as such. It also needs an additional nodetype that you have to add in the document's CND beforehand, in our example we call it sophora-demo:teaserImage. This property name is the one you have to enter into the Image Child Node parameter field in the property configuration of your text property. The child node sophora-demo:teaserImage itself, on the other hand, shall not appear anywhere in the documents formular tabs. Nevertheless, you do have to configure it on the components tab - drag it there on the components tab of the child node editor. Finally, you have to select the image reference node type (not the image node type itself) or the component box node type that can contain images as a valid child node type for sophora-demo:teaserImage.

Text (with Teaser Image and Style)

This input field is a combination of both the text with teaser image and the text with styles. All configuration parameters can be found in the section of the respective input field types and work just the same.