Joomla Custom Fields

05 January 2020 | Joomla Custom Fields

Here you will find all the available fields that can be used in the Joomla Custom Fields import and export routines. Please see the relevant tutorials on how to use these fields in a specific scenario.

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13 January 2018 | Joomla Custom Fields

Requirements

Creating the export template

A template can be created by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Templates
2. Click New
3. Give the template a name
4. Set Action to Export
5. Set Component to Joomla Custom fields
6. Set Operation to Fields
7. Click Next: Select Source
8. Destination is set default to Download. No need for change.
9. Click Next: Select options
10. The default values are OK, change if needed.
11. Click Next: Select fields
12. Fields must be added otherwise there is nothing for CSVI to export. Click Edit template fields.
13. A new window opens with the Template fields page. You can add new fields by clicking New or Quick Add.
14. When all fields are added you can close the window
15. Click Next: Finalize
16. All done here
17. Click Close to return to the list of templates or Edit if you want to fine-tune the template further.

Add the fields to export

Template fields can be added by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Templates
2. Click on Template fields
3. In the Search Tools select your template
4. Click on New to add a single field or click on Quick Add to add multiple fields.

Quick Add

The Quick Add Option allows you to quickly add multiple fields to a template. It is not possible to set any settings per field here but that can be done after the fields have been added to the template.

Run the export

The export can be run by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Export
2. Select the template created earlier
3. Click Export
4. The export is run
5. The Log details page will be shown with information regarding the export if the Enable logging is enabled in the template

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13 January 2018 | Joomla Custom Fields

Requirements

Creating the export template

A template can be created by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Templates
2. Click New
3. Give the template a name
4. Set Action to Export
5. Set Component to Joomla Custom Fields
6. Set Operation to Field groups
7. Click Next: Select Source
8. Destination is set default to Download. No need for change.
9. Click Next: Select options
10. The default values are OK, change if needed.
11. Click Next: Select fields
12. Fields must be added otherwise there is nothing for CSVI to export. Click Edit template fields.
13. A new window opens with the Template fields page. You can add new fields by clicking New or Quick Add.
14. When all fields are added you can close the window
15. Click Next: Finalize
16. All done here
17. Click Close to return to the list of templates or Edit if you want to fine-tune the template further.

Add the fields to export

Template fields can be added by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Templates
2. Click on Template fields
3. In the Search Tools select your template
4. Click on New to add a single field or click on Quick Add to add multiple fields.

Quick Add

The Quick Add Option allows you to quickly add multiple fields to a template. It is not possible to set any settings per field here but that can be done after the fields have been added to the template.

Run the export

The export can be run by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Export
2. Select the template created earlier
3. Click Export
4. The export is run
5. The Log details page will be shown with information regarding the export if the Enable logging is enabled in the template

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14 May 2020 | Joomla Custom Fields

Requirements

Creating the template

A template can be created by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Templates
2. Click New
3. Give the template a name
4. Set Action to Import
5. Set Component to Joomla Custom Fields
6. Set Operation to Field groups
7. Click Next: Select Source
8. Source is set default to Load from your computer. No need for change.
9. Click Next: Select options
10. The default values are OK, change if needed.
11. Click Next: Select fields
12. Nothing needed here as we set to Use column headers as configuration in step 10.
13. Click Next: Finalize
14. All done here
15. Click Close to return to the list of templates or Edit if you want to fine-tune the template further.

Adding the template fields

Template fields can be added by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Templates
2. Click on Template fields
3. In the Search Tools select your template
4. Click on New to add a single field or click on Quick Add to add multiple fields.

Quick Add

The Quick Add Option allows you to quickly add multiple fields to a template. It is not possible to set any settings per field here but that can be done after the fields have been added to the template.

Required fields

• title

Criteria

 

Creating the import file

As in the example file, the fields we are trying to import are listed below, more fields can be added according to the requirement. Check the available fields page in CSVI to find out which fields are available for the Joomla Custom Field groups import.

Run the import

The import can be run by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> CSVI Pro -> Import
2. Select the template created earlier
3. Click Select file
4. Select the file to import
5. Click Preview
6. You now see a preview of the file as to how CSVI sees the file
7. Click Start import
8. The import is run
9. The Log details page will be shown with information regarding the import if the Enable logging is enabled in the template

Examples

"title","context_type","description"
 "User group","user","Group for Users"
 "Articles group","articles","Group for Articles"

Example file

Joomla_customfieldgroups_import.csv

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17 January 2025 | Joomla Custom Fields

Requirements

Creating the template

A template can be created by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Templates
2. Click New
3. Give the template a name
4. Set Action to Import
5. Set Component to Joomla Custom fields
6. Set Operation to Fields
7. Click Next: Select Source
8. Source is set default to Load from your computer. No need for change.
9. Click Next: Select options
10. The default values are OK, change if needed.
11. Click Next: Select fields
12. Nothing needed here as we set to Use column headers as configuration in step 10.
13. Click Next: Finalize
14. All done here
15. Click Close to return to the list of templates or Edit if you want to fine-tune the template further.

Adding the template fields

Template fields can be added by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Templates
2. Click on Template fields
3. In the Search Tools select your template
4. Click on New to add a single field or click on Quick Add to add multiple fields.

Quick Add

The Quick Add Option allows you to quickly add multiple fields to a template. It is not possible to set any settings per field here but that can be done after the fields have been added to the template.

Required fields

• name/alias

Criteria

 

Creating the import file

As in the example file, the fields we are trying to import are listed below, more fields can be added according to the requirement. Check the available fields page in CSVI to find out which fields are available for the Joomla Custom Fields import.

Run the import

The import can be run by following these steps:

1. Go to Components -> RO CSVI -> Import
2. Select the template created earlier
3. Click Select file
4. Select the file to import
5. Click Preview
6. You now see a preview of the file as to how CSVI sees the file
7. Click Start import
8. The import is run
9. The Log details page will be shown with information regarding the import if the Enable logging is enabled in the template

Video showing the process

 

Examples

Remember that the category_path and group_name should be already created before running the import. If not available RO CSVI will show error.

 

Example for creating User custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
 "User location","user/user-location","user","User group","text"

Example for creating Article custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
 "User article","user/user-location","article","User group","list"

Example for creating Contact custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
 "User contact","user/user-location","contact","User group","text"

It is also possible to import all the custom field type as one with one import file

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type"
"User location","user/user-location","user","User group","text"
"User article","user/user-location","article","User group","list"
"User contact","user/user-location","contact","User group","text"

Please note multiple categories are separated by | . An example for category_path field for multiple categories would look like user/user-location|user/user-region.

Adding list type field values

For list type custom fields RO CSVI offers two more available fields list_value and list_text to add values on import.

A list box has two kinds of values.

•  The original text which is seen in dropdown to select like Arizona, Alaska and California in below example. Use list_text field for these values.
•  Value which is hidden but is the value corresponding to the text selected. This is the value saved to database. arizona, alaska and california from below example content. Use list_value field for these values.

Multiple values are separated by |. Also the order of values in list_value and list_text should be same.

Example for list type in User custom field

"title","category_path","context_type","group_name","type","list_text","list_value"
 "User location","user/user-location","user","User group","list","arizona|alaska|california","Arizona|Alaska|California"

Example file

Joomla_customfields_import.csv

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