With the help of the editor.xml file you can define the fields of a document type which should be displayed in the document window.

You can configure the following settings:

The configuration possibilities are shown using a document of type Dish. The following figure shows such a document without specially configured fields (a Dish document type could of course have completely different fields in your system, or not occur at all). The document has no fields of type blob and integer. However, the configuration of these fields can be carried out analogously to the configuration shown. The editors for these two field types can be found in Section 5.1.1, “Property Editors”.

Figure 5.4. Dish document without special configuration

The fields of the document type Dish should now be configured as follows:

Once the configuration has been carried out, a document of type Dish appears as follows:

Figure 5.5. Dish document after the configuration

One of the two list fields is opened up here as example. If you try to save this document without entries in the fields description, an error message appears. An entry in the field calories is not possible. The field name has the default entry "New Dish". You achieve this configuration with the following settings in editor.xml:

 <Documents>
.
.
	<Document type="Dish">
		<Property name="pictures" editorClass="ComboBoxLinkListEditor" 
		path="/MenuSite/Fish"/>
		<Property name="calories" editable="false"/>
		<Property name="price" editorClass="ComboBoxStringEditor">
			<HistoryItem value="5$"/>
			<HistoryItem value="10$"/>
			<HistoryItem value="20$"/>
		</Property>
	</Document>
</Documents>

<DocumentTypes>
	<DocumentType name="Dish">
		<PropertyType name="description">
			<Validator class="NotEmpty2"/>
		</PropertyType>
		<PropertyType name="name" initialValue="New Dish"/>
		<PropertyType name="calories" initialValue="200"/>
	</DocumentType>
</DocumentTypes>