Data Types

Data types

Each object in the dataModel element above should have the following structure:

{
    "dataType": <data type>
    "name": <string>
    "constraints": <array or computed expression>
    "computed": <computed expression object>
    "validate": <list of validation strings>
}

General data type parameters

Each data type parameter is described in the section (Supported data types)[supported-data-types] below with the particulars of its use however parameters that are applicable to every data type are described here and are called general parameters.

• class
• width
• title
• readonly
• source
• title

class

String. Used to specify the CSS class to be added to the HTML rendered for a view type.

Supported data types

• text
• stringList
• number
• date
• time
• set
• list
• species
• image
• boolean
• document
• feature
• geoMap
• photoPoints

stringList

Purpose

Stores a list of strings

View types that can use it

• selectMany
• select2Many
• selectManyCombo

Parameters

constraints

Optional list that constrain the possible values contained in each entry of the stringList

Example

SelectMany View Type and stringList Data Type Example