Managing custom fields
Through custom fields, you can have ideas display fields that are customized for your community. For example, you could create a dropdown field that lists specific areas of interest to your community — people would select the area to which their idea applies.
Available field types
A custom field can be one of several types. You should choose a type that best suits the kind of information the field will capture. For example, if the field will contain the answer to a "yes or no" question, then using the Check box type (which people can select for "Yes") is more preferable than a Text type (where people would type "Yes").
The field types are available:
- Text
- A small box in which users can type a brief amount of text.
- Text area
- A larger box for typing larger amounts of text. In this box, the text wraps and the box itself can be made larger or smaller by the person typing in it.
- Drop down
- A collapsible list of values from which a person can choose only one.
- Radio button
- A set of option buttons from which a user can choose only one.
- Check box
- One or more boxes from which a user can select any number.
Note that the Drop down, Radio button, and Check box types provide multiple selections. For each of these types, you can specify a list of options that people in the community should see when they're editing the field in an idea.