Node type Decorators

Roadiz allows you to customize any node-types and node-type fields non-structural properties. This can be handy if you need to change node-types appearence (display names, colors) in Back-office without needing to update your project configuration or emptying caches.

Entity representation

This decoration is represented by the NodeTypeDecorator entity, which contains three fields :

• path
• property
• value

path property :

This property is used to define the node type or node type field we want to customize. It consists of the node type name and the node type field name separated by a dot.

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Exemple of path for the content field of a Page :

Page.content

WARNING

For decorate an property of a node type simply leave empty after the dot :

Page.

property property :

This property is used to define the node type property or node type field property we want to customize.

It consists of a Enum which depends on the path containing a field or not.

List of the property for node type :

1. displayName
2. description
3. color

List of the property for node type field :

1. field_label
2. field_universal
3. field_description
4. field_placeholder
5. field_visible
6. field_min_length
7. field_max_length

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Exemple of property for the content field of a Page :

field_label

WARNING

You can't attribute a node type property to a path with field (exemple: path = Page. and property = field_label)

You can't attribute a node type field property to a path without field (exemple: path = Page.content and property = displayName)

value property :

This property is used to define the value who override default.

It consists of a string linked to its property type.

Property	Type
displayName	text
description	text
color	hexadecimal color
field_label	text
field_universal	boolean
field_description	text
field_placeholder	text
field_visible	boolean
field_min_length	integer
field_max_length	integer

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Exemple of value on the field_label property : 'A text Label'

Exemple of value on the field_visible property : 'true'

Exemple of value on the color property : '#FF1185'

Exemple of value on the field_max_length property : '15'