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ezcontentobjectattribute

Summary

Contains information about an attribute of a content object.

Persistent

Yes.

Attributes

Attribute Type Static* Description
id string Yes. The ID number of the attribute.
contentobject_id string Yes. The ID number of the content object that the attribute belongs to.
version string Yes. The version number of the content object that the attribute belongs to.
language_code string Yes. The code of the translation that the attribute belongs to (for example "eng-GB").
language_id string Yes. The ID number of the translation language plus 1 if this is the language is initial/main and the object is always available.
contentclassattribute_id string Yes. The ID number of the attribute.
attribute_original_id string Yes. The original ID of the attribute.
sort_key_int string Yes. Integer used for sorting.
sort_key_string string Yes. Text used for sorting.
data_type_string string Yes. The identifier string of the datatype (for example "ezstring").
data_text string Yes. Text stored by the attribute.
data_int string Yes. Integer stored by the attribute.
data_float string Yes. Float stored by the attribute.
contentclass_attribute object No. The class attribute (as an ezcontentclassattribute object).
contentclass_attribute_identifier string No. The identifier of the content class attribute (for example "first_name").
contentclass_attribute_name string No. The name of the content class attribute.
can_translate string No. 1 if the attribute is translatable, 0 if not.
is_information_collector string No. 1 if the attribute is an information collector, 0 if not.
is_required string No. 1 if the attribute is required, 0 if not.
content any No. The actual content (what is returned when the ".content" notation is used).
has_http_value boolean No. TRUE if the attribute has an HTTP value, FALSE otherwise.
value any No. The HTTP input from the user (if submitted) or the contents of the object
attribute from the database (same as the "content" attribute).
has_content boolean No. TRUE if there is attribute contains content, FALSE if it is empty.
class_content any No. The content of the class attribute which this object attribute is made from (same as ".contentclass_attribute.content").
object object No. The object that the attribute belongs to (as an ezcontentobject object).
object_version object No. The version that the attribute belongs to (as an ezcontentobjectversion object).
view_template string No. The name of the template that is used to display the view interface for the attribute (for example "ezstring").
edit_template string No. The name of the template that is used to display the edit interface for the attribute (for example "ezstring").
result_template string No. The name of the template that is used to display the information that was collected by the attribute (for example "ezstring").
has_validation_error boolean No. TRUE if a validation error was detected, FALSE if everything is okay.
validation_error NULL No. The validation error(s), NULL if none.
validation_log NULL No. A log of the validation error(s), NULL if none.
language object No. The original translation (as ezcontentobjectattribute object) of this content object
attribute (it may just be the same object).
is_a string No. Returns the identifier of the datatype that is used to represent the attribute (for example "ezstring").
display_info array No. An array containing information about how the attribute should be displayed in different scenarios (for example if the information should be grouped, etc.).
class_display_info array No. An array containing information about how the attribute should be displayed on the class level.

* Indicates whether the attribute provides a pre-fetched value or if it needs to be computed upon request.

Balazs Halasy (22/02/2005 8:42 am)

Svitlana Shatokhina (12/03/2007 10:36 am)

Balazs Halasy, Svitlana Shatokhina

Balazs Halasy, Svitlana Shatokhina, Lior Solomon, vytis, Clemens Timmermans, Bas, Invisible

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  • Great new documantation

    Thursday 30 June 2005 11:48:05 am

    Lior Solomon

    Thank you ez team for the new documantation
    will examples will be included as well?

  • And how to get selected value of Selection object?

    Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:50:53 am

    vytis

    how to get selected value of Selectio object without using attribute_view_gui ?

    • Re: And how to get selected value of Selection object?

      Thursday 29 September 2005 6:01:37 pm

      Clemens Timmermans

      Try something like this:

      $mynode.data_map.rfcstatus.class_content.options[$mynode.data_map.rfcstatus.value[0]].name

  • Type

    Wednesday 21 September 2005 12:08:11 pm

    Bas

    Where it reads for the attributes names:
    "contentclass_attribute_identifier"
    and
    "contentclass_attribute_name"
    should just be:
    "identifier"
    and
    "name"

  • file.tpl

    Wednesday 29 November 2006 8:07:10 am

    Invisible

    How to separate a related object from the text in a file template?
    I want to separate them so i can apply different css class to each one of them