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From YouTube: Backdrop CMS - Content Types and Fields
Description
This is a very quick and basic introduction about content types in Backdrop CMS and how to create one with custom field configurations.
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A
Hi,
my
name
is
Tim
Eriksson
and
I
am
here
with
today's
super
blow
by
trip
blow
back,
rub
CMS
tutorial
video
today
we're
going
to
talk
about
content,
types
and
fields,
content,
types
and
fields
is
a
pretty
basic
concept.
If
you're
here
coming
here
and
you
built
sites
with
backdrop
or
drupal,
seven
or
eight
in
the
past,
you
probably
use
these
concepts
and
this
video
might
not
be
for
you
for
those
of
you
who
have
not
done
that
in
our
new
to
this.
Well,
let's
jump
right
into
it.
A
So
content
types
are
what
they
sound
like
their
types
of
content,
we're
looking
right
now
at
a
simple
Oh
site
that
we've
spun
up
with
backdrop.
This
is
not
backdrop
out
of
the
box,
but
something
similar
and
we'll
notice.
If
we
go
to
the
content
menu,
actually
a
good
content
add
menu.
We
have
a
couple
of
content
types
here
by
default.
Well,
we
have
post
page,
FAQ
and
webform
backdrop,
a
normal
installation.
A
backdrop
would
just
come
with
a
page
and
the
post
content
types.
A
So
these
are
different
types
of
content
that
you're
going
to
want
to
display
in
different
ways
and
one
of
the
real
powers
of
backdrop.
Cms's
is
its
ability
for
users,
site
editors
and
builders,
to
create
custom
content,
types
with
custom
fields
and
then
have
very
powerful
ways
of
displaying
and
filtering
that
content.
A
We'll
take
a
quick
look
here
of
the
two
default
content:
types
that
come
out
that
drop
CMS
a
page
and
a
post,
a
page
comes
which
is
two
fields,
a
title
and
a
body,
it's
very
simple
to
use,
but
not
very
flexible
or
versatile.
If
you
need
to
do
creative
things
with
it
before
just
a
page
and
the
idea
for
pages
in
backdrop,
CMS
is
that
it's
just
sort
of
static
pages
on
your
site,
an
example
would
be.
A
A
People
the
image
fields
here,
gives
you
more
flexibility
to
create
teasers
and
different
displays
and
views
of
your
of
your
posts
that,
where
you
can
do
different
things
with
the
images,
so
these
extra
fields
just
give
you
extra
flexibility
to
other
sort
of
theoretical
or
possible
content
types
might
be
an
event,
content
type
or
a
venue
content
type.
Why
would
you
use
an
event
content
type?
A
You
could
just
put
the
event
stuff
into
a
post
or
into
a
page,
but
if
you
create
an
event,
content
type
you're
able
to
create
custom
fields
like
a
venue
date
cost
and
have
ala
de
chinon,
these
fields
to
make
sure
that
that
the
date
field
actually
contains
a
date
that
the
venue
field
maybe
has
certain
characteristics
or
that
the
hospital
actually
is
a
number
and
in
real
cause.
A
venue
content
type
might
have
a
title
on
a
description.
You
notice
both
of
these
have
descriptions
instead
of
a
body
field.
A
The
venue
also
has
an
address
content
type,
maybe
an
image
where
you
could
put
an
image
of
the
outside
image
of
the
venue.
Maybe
the
capacity
or
whether
or
not
food
is
available
at
the
venue.
These
are
all
different
things
that
you
might
want
to
be
able
to
filter
by
or
display
differently
and
by
having
custom
fields.
You
just
have
a
lot
more
flexibility,
let's
jump
to
a
brand
new
sort
of
plane,
backdrops
CMS
itis,
it's
just
using
backdrop
CMS
on
the
box
and
if
you
wanted
to
create
a
new
content
type.
A
Basically
you'd
go
up
here
to
structure
and
under
structure,
go
to
content
types.
I'm
gonna,
take
the
slow
way
this
time
and
you
can
see
our
two
existing
content
types
of
page
and
a
post,
I'm
gonna
go
to
the
post
and
just
show
you
like
the
manage
fields
page,
and
we
can
see
what
I
said
earlier.
There's
a
title
feel
the
body
feel
the
tags
field,
an
image
field:
let's
create
our
own
content
type,
let's
go
ahead
and
create
that
event,
content
type
and
and
I
had
these
five
fields
date.
Bend,
your
cause.
A
Events
is
going
to
be
the
name
of
our
content
type
and
there's
a
bunch
of
default
settings
you
can
set
for
your
content
type
with
things.
Like
permission,
she's
going
to
be
allowed
to
create
and
edit
these
this
kind
of
content-
and
this
can
change
for
each
different
type
of
content,
whether
or
not
you
want
each
piece
of
content
published
automatically
or
if
you
want
the
default
to
be
a
draft
and
then
the
user
has
to
publish
it
later.
You
know
things
like
the
display
settings.
I'm
not
gonna,
go
through
all
of
this
right
now.
A
That's
another
video
but
I
do
recommend
you
sort
of
look
through
and
experiment
them
anyway.
So
now
I
go
ahead
and
I
hit,
save
and
add
field
by
default.
Every
content
type
starts
with
a
title
and
a
body
field.
However,
you
don't
need
to
keep
like,
for
example,
this
body
field
we
have
for
our
event
field.
We
had
a
description
instead
of
the
body
field.
Well,
I
could
I
have
two
choices,
one
of
which
is
I,
could
observe,
configure
this
body
field
and
just
change
the
label
to
description.
A
We
need
to
pick
what
field
type
we
want
and
I
am
going
to,
so
that
we
can
see
the
entire
list
of
fields
that
are
types
of
fields
that
are
available
to
me.
So
I'm
gonna
go
over
this
really
quick.
A
boolean
is
just
a
true/false
field.
We've
got
three
different
types
of
date:
fields
and
different
formats,
an
email
field,
a
file
field
as
opposed
to
an
image
field.
A
These
are
similar,
but
files
would
be
more
like
PDFs,
whereas
images
are
you
know
more
JPEGs
pin
files,
we
have
a
link
field
if
you're
linking
to
another
piece
of
content.
We
have
a
couple
of
different
list
fields
depending
on
how
you're
formatting
them
a
couple
of
different
number
of
fields
and
like
sometimes
the
reason
we
have
three
different
types
of
number
fields
is
that
each
one
has
maybe
different
validation,
so
you
can
validate
that
the
number
is
entered
in
the
right
format
and
display
it
in
the
right
format.
A
A
term
reference
field
is
just
a
field,
that's
going
to
refer
to
something
a
taxonomy
or
a
vocabulary.
This
is
an
example
of
that
would
be
tags,
and
then
we
have
a
couple
of
different
kinds
of
text
field,
so
I'll
just
a
short
text
field
that
would
be
like
a
one-line
one,
a
long
text
field,
and
then
we
have
a
text
field,
that's
long
and
with
a
summary
and
what
the
summary
does.
I'm
gonna
go
ahead,
and
do
this
provide
this
text
with
a
summary
just
so
we
can
see
what
that
looks
like
once.
A
A
Always
good
to
put
some
kind
of
help
text
here
to
help
your
users
I'm
not
going
to
talk
too
much
about
this
right
now,
but
backdrop
has
different
options
for
how
you
enter
your
text
and
that
would
be
talked
about
here.
This
is
the
how
many
rows
you
want.
We
have
a
long
text
field,
so
it's
a
multiple
rows
and
we
can
decide.
A
We
could
set
this
for
five
or
we
could
set
it
for
50,
depending
on
how
big
of
a
field
we
want
to
give
our
users,
let's
just
stay
with
the
default
and
here's
the
summary.
We
created
the
option
for
users
to
add
a
summary,
and
what
this
means
is
that
the
editor
is
going
to
be
given
the
option
to
enter
two
descriptions
along
to
a
long
description
and
a
short
description,
and
the
short
description
would
be
used
in
things
like
teasers
or
places
where
we're
displaying
a
list
of
the
venues.
A
A
A
Do
we
want
it
to
be
kept
to
the
minute
or
the
hour
or
just
the
day,
for
our
an
event
will
probably
have
to
go
down
to
the
minute
because
an
event
might
start
at
7:30
and
then
we
can
give
the
house
should
backdrop
handle
time
zone
I.
Think
in
this
case
that
the
site
is
probably
what
we
want
to
go
with,
because
people
will
be
entering
their
events
in
the
time
zone
of
the
site.
A
That's
my
help
text
for
the
editor
and
then
I
can
choose
different
formats.
That
I
want
the
state
to
display
in
when
it
displays
on
the
page.
I'm
gonna
go
with
this
verbose
version
of
that
there
are
ways
to
create
your
own
custom
formats,
but
that's
another
video
different
things
about
how
to
label
yet
and
what
kind
of
time
increments.
Let's
go
with
15-minute
time
increments.
We
don't
need
readings
at
7:02
right,
it's
7:00,
7:15,
7:30,
that's
good
enough!
A
The
number
of
rows
we
want,
we
could
put
some
default
text
in
there,
but
we're
not
going
to
get
save
and
I
think
that
takes
us
down
to
one
last
field.
We
were
going
to
have
cost,
so
let's
enter
a
cost
field
or
cost
we're
going
to
do
a
decimal
number
field,
and
we
have
one
widget
type
text:
let's
go
ahead
and
hit
save,
and
even
though
this
is
like
a
text
field,
what
it
does
is
lets
us
pick.
For
example,
we
want
to
decimals
to
the
right
right.
A
So
basically
we
required
two
and
we
could
set
this
to
be
a
lower
number,
the
total
number
of
digits
destroying
the
database,
including
those
to
the
right.
So
we
don't
need
more
than
10
digits.
I.
Think
none
of
our
events
are
going
to
be
that
expensive.
Let's
save
this
some
help
text
we
can
set
a
minimum
and
a
maximum
number-
and
let's
say
0-
is
the
minimum
and
1000
is
the
maximum.
We
don't
anticipate
anybody
doing
more
than
a
thousand
dollars.
We
can
put
a
prefix
on
this.
A
We
want
this
to
be
Dowers,
it
could
be
pounds,
it
could
be
something
else.
We
could
also
add
a
suffix
if
we
weren't
doing
cost
of
this
work.
Like
you
know
some
other
kind
of
measurement,
we
could
put
up
a
suffix
indicating
pounds
or
meter
inch
or
something
like
that.
Afterwards,
I'm
gonna
go
ahead
and
put
a
default.
This
time,
I'm
gonna
put
0
on
0
0,
because
I
think
that'll
be
helpful
for
users
to
see
that
a
sort
of
sample
and
hit
save
and
now
we've
added
our
5
fields.
A
And
we'll
keep
it
free
and
again
here
now
the
default
is
to
have
this
content
published
immediately
upon
saving,
but
I
can
override
that
and
say
no
I'm,
not
ready.
Let's
just
save
a
draft
and
now
I'm
going
to
get
on
my
event,
I'm
going
to
get
a
big
note
saying
this
event
is
unpublished
and
to
publish
it.
I
just
hit
edit
and
save.
A
And
now
it's
been
published
here
is
the
author's
information.
That's
a
setting.
We
have
on
the
content,
type
description,
the
date
the
venue
and
the
price.
Okay
I
think
that's
our
introduction
to
field.
So
it's
kind
of
a
quick
overview,
there's
a
lot
more
that
you
can
do
and
a
lot
more
to
explore
and
Iker
encourage
you
to
look
around
I.
Also
encourage
you
to
look
at
some
of
the
other,
simpler
videos
on
YouTube.
So
please
have
a
great
day
and
I'll
see
you
at
the
next
video.