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billtrainor
Guide
11 years ago

Add custom text input fields to the post editor?

Still a bit new to "FreeMarker" and "endpoints" and such, but that's where support directed us...  Hours later of poring through the docs, and trying to find someone else's previous question on the s...
  • HaidongG's avatar
    HaidongG
    11 years ago

    Hi Bill,

     

    at this moment, such customization needs to engage Lithium Professional Services. it is not achievable via Lithium Studio alone.

     

    You may have to work out the detailed ECR scoping with your Lithium contact, it can include, but not limited to

    1. add metadata to the message object (you may indicate whether those metadata are searchable or not)
    2. custom form for additional metadata
    3. show those additional form fields on certain boards only, i.e. hide those fields on other boards
    4. create new form validators to ensure the input to additional fields are correct
    5. display the additional fields on Topic page/Reply page, message listing pages and etc.

    I hope that it helps.

HaidongG's avatar
HaidongG
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi Bill,

 

at this moment, such customization needs to engage Lithium Professional Services. it is not achievable via Lithium Studio alone.

 

You may have to work out the detailed ECR scoping with your Lithium contact, it can include, but not limited to

  1. add metadata to the message object (you may indicate whether those metadata are searchable or not)
  2. custom form for additional metadata
  3. show those additional form fields on certain boards only, i.e. hide those fields on other boards
  4. create new form validators to ensure the input to additional fields are correct
  5. display the additional fields on Topic page/Reply page, message listing pages and etc.

I hope that it helps.