How to Add Custom Fields to Topics in Jetonomy

How to add custom fields to topics in Jetonomy, step by step: turn on the Custom Fields extension of Jetonomy Pro, name a field and pick its type, set its rules and its space, see it on the new topic form as a member, and change or turn off a field.

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In this tutorial you will add custom fields to topics in Jetonomy. You need Jetonomy Pro, with its Custom Fields extension turned on. It takes about three minutes. There are five steps. Turn on Custom Fields. Name the field and pick a type. Set its rules and its space. See it as a member. Then change or turn off a field. Step one. Turn on Custom Fields. In your WordPress admin, open Jetonomy, then Extensions, and find the card called Custom Fields. Turn its switch on. It acts at once. It is on already here, so this tutorial does not click it. A new item, Custom Fields, joins the Jetonomy menu. Step two. Name the field and pick a type. Click Custom Fields in the Jetonomy menu. Under Add New Field, type a Name. Leave Slug empty and it is made from the name. Type has nine choices: Text, Textarea, Number, Email, URL, Select, Checkbox, Radio and Date. Context is what the field belongs to. Post puts it on the new topic form. User Profile and Space put it on the forms for those. This tutorial uses Post. Step three. Set its rules and its space. Tick Required, and the form shows a star. A new topic is refused while that field is empty. A draft can still be kept without it. Tick Searchable, and what members enter in a Post field is found by the community search. Space decides where the field shows. All Spaces, Global, puts it on every space. Pick one space, and only that space gets it. For the types Select, Checkbox and Radio, a row called Options appears. Click Add Option for each choice. Then click Create Field. This tutorial does not click it. Step four. See it as a member. Now sign in as a member, and start a new topic in the space. Under the editor is a block called Additional Fields. This space has three: Device, which is required, Browser, and Happens every time. Once a topic is posted, the answers show under its text, for everyone who can read it. The author can change them by editing the post. Step five. Change or turn off a field. Back in the admin, scroll to Existing Fields. Each row shows the type, the context, whether it is required, its space, and its status. Each row has two buttons. Edit opens the field in the form above, with its settings filled in. Disable switches the field off at once and keeps it, along with the answers already given. The button then reads Enable, which turns it on again. This tutorial clicks neither. That is all five. Custom Fields turned on, a field named and typed, its rules and its space set, the field seen as a member, and a field changed or turned off. Every new topic in that space now arrives with the details you need. Next in this series: Read your community analytics.