Field Advanced Settings

[Soma]

Question: What does the option "Global" do?

"If checked, ALL pages will be required to have this field. It will be automatically added to any fieldgroups/templates that don't already have it. This does not mean that a value is required in the field, only that the editable field will exist in all pages."

I created a checkbox and checked "global". But the Field doesn't appear on any page...

[ryan]

You are right it doesn't look like it's working. I haven't used this option in such a long time, I'm must have broken it recently. I'm not sure that anyone else really uses this, so wondering if maybe I should moved this to be an advanced mode option (after fixing it).

[Soma]

Thanks Ryan for the info.

I think it can be handy in certain circumstances to create a field across all templates, but then it would be great to be able to select the templates you want to attach the new field and what position, without going to each template and manually attach it.

As it is now, you're not felxible and it still would be neccessary to go to each template and move it to the place you want, so no real timesaver... I would be ok with having as advanced feature.

[apeisa]

+1 to advanced. Never used and cannot think good scenario for it at the moment.

[Soma]

+1 to advanced. Never used and cannot think good scenario for it at the moment.

Well in my scenario, I have like 5 page templates, and at the end I found out I need a "hide in navigation" and a "searchable" checkbox across all pages. So I thought I try this option...

[ryan]

That's exactly what it was intended for. Sites where you have a lot of templates and just discovered you need the same field added to all of them. Without it, you'd have to go edit each template and add it individually. In practice, I've only used this once or twice. For some reason, I thought it would be a lot more useful at one time. But I'm going to fix it and then move it to be an advanced option, so it'll still be there for those that want it.