Fields: Defining Your Content's Data

Once you've established your Content Types, you populate them with fields. Fields define the specific pieces of data that each content entry will hold.

Purpose:

• Data Specificity: Fields determine the type of information stored within your content types, ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Content Detail: They provide the granular detail needed to populate your content, from simple text to complex structured data.
• API Accessibility: Fields are the building blocks that make your content accessible and queryable through your headless CMS's API.

Supported Field Types:

• Text: For short text strings.
• Long Text (HTML/Markdown): For larger text content, including formatted text.
• Reference: Links to other Content Types, establishing relationships.
• Integer: Whole numbers.
• Float: Decimal numbers.
• Boolean: True/false values.
• Date: Calendar dates.
• Time: Time of day.
• Date and Time: Combined date and time values.
• Slug: URL-friendly string, often auto-generated from a label field.
• JSON: Stores arbitrary JSON data.
• Image: Uploaded image files, with API options for resizing and formatting.
• Video: Uploaded video files.

Notes:

• Some field types support multiple entries, allowing for lists or arrays of data.
• Designating a Text field as a "label" is recommended for easy identification of content entries.
• GraphQL API Access: Adding your first field to a Content Type immediately makes your content accessible through the CMS's GraphQL API.