@bindaden : Yes, Extended fields give you the possibility to add your own fields to pages, articles and media.
For example, imagine you need another article data so called “introduction” for your articles.
The old way of doing that was hacking the database, add your field, hacking the admin panel, add your field, go into the model, etc… boring, not efficient and not compatible with further versions of the Ionize core system.
With extended fields, you add your field, define the type of field (input, textarea, checkbox, etc…), set the label name and that’s it : this field will appear in all your articles admin.
If you set this fields as “multi-languagues”, it will be available in the languages data tab of the article.
To use it in a view, simply call <ion:field from=“article name=“your_field_name” > and that’s it.
Extended fields will be improved in the 0.93 version… which will be very soon available…
Some new coming features :
- “Scope” notion in “articles” tag : Means you can call articles not only from a page, but also from all the website or from the parent page (articles from the page upper the current page).
- Dynamic attributes in tags (attribute value can come from a database field)
Stay tuned, this new version will come very soon !
