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About the development of unlimited custom fields
Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I last used Textpattern. But whenever I can, I come here to see how things are going. I noticed that version 4.9 has been released, and from past discussions here on the forum, if my memory serves me right, the goal was for unlimited custom fields to be implemented in the core in version 4.9, wasn’t it? I might be mistaken, it’s been a while.
In any case, I checked out the 4.9 demo and didn’t notice any progress in this specific area, at least nothing visibly apparent. That said, I would like to know what stage the development of this feature is currently in, and when it is planned to be released.
Also, I’d like to take the opportunity to ask how AI is helping developers in the development of Textpattern, whether it’s already part of your day-to-day workflow, and if it’s speeding up Textpattern’s development.
Thank you.
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Re: About the development of unlimited custom fields
Hey, thanks for checking out 4.9. The original plan was for UCF in this version but as we developed it (in a parallel branch) it became clear that the backwards compatibility breaking nature of the feature would be best served in Textpattern 5. The next goal.
Development is moving forward. The dev branch holds the current state, for you to play with either yourself or on the demo server. It’s still rough round the edges but a couple of the content areas (articles and images) have been wired up to support them.
As for AI… no. And no intention to embrace it for development because the code it generated will be at odds with our lean, performant project ethos. Not to mention that it’d be a nightmare to maintain code written by a machine.
The only possible use I see for AI is coverage testing, but there are still no plans for its use here.
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Re: About the development of unlimited custom fields
Wondering why in the 5 demo version there are only two CFs available?
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Re: About the development of unlimited custom fields
Not sure I follow. You can create as many as you like. I think the usual two are pre-defined out of the box.
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Re: About the development of unlimited custom fields
in my installation i see 10 cf. Someone looking at version5 might assume only two custom fields are allowed. There is no option to create additional cfs as far as i can see. perhaps i am overlooking something obvious.
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Re: About the development of unlimited custom fields
bici wrote #343247:
perhaps i am overlooking something
Try the new Meta menu item first (labelled ‘tab_meta’ at the moment cos there’s no language string for it).
That’s where you create new Entities (sort of content type groups for your custom fields) and metadata (custom fields). Then, when you create a new article (for example) you can choose the entity type, which determines which fields are available for that Article.
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