Overview

Value of this field is a short text.

Common Attributes

name	type	required	default value	description
name	string	yes	none	Name of the field, must be unique in this model scope.
readonly	boolean	no	false	If true this field cannot be change by user.
required	boolean	no	false	If true this field will be required (validator and "not-null" database's contraint will be added).
copyable	boolean	no	true (except hasMany, manyToMany and tree fields)	If true value of this field will be copied during entity copy. Should be set to false for unique (see above) fields (except string and text).
persistent	boolean	no	true	If true this field will be stored in database.

Common attributes for primitive field types

name	type	required	default value	description
unique	boolean	no	false	If true this field will be unique (validator with case insensitive). Should be set to false for copyable (see Common model field attributes) fields (except string and text).
default	string	no	none	Default value of this field. Is used only for FormComponent. This flag is ignored when entity is saving to database without view.

name	type	required	default value	description
expression	string	no	none	If not empty value of the field will be evaluated using given expression. It also automatically sets "persistent" to "false". Please see expressions overview.

<string name="firstName" />
<string name="lastName" required="true" />
<string name="name" expression="#firstName + ' ' + #lastName" />