3.3 Picklist Concept: Developer

Conceptual Overview

A Picklist is a list of values that can be used in a Content Item

You can create a list of text values known as a Picklist and use it as a Variable Type in your Components. This gives content editors a selection of values to choose from when editing Content Items.

For example, you might create a Picklist containing theme colours, allowing content editors to quickly choose the appropriate colour values of a Content Item – and to see all of the options available.

The items of a Picklist are known as Picklist Items.

Picklist Items must be text values.

Picklists make it easy to reuse and standardise the values used in Content Items.

Conceptual Diagram

Picklists on a Page

Single-Select and Multi-Select

Variables of the Picklist type must be configured as single-select or multi-select, which determines whether content editors can select one or several Picklist Items. When multi-select is configured, a delimiter must also be configured to join the chosen Picklist Items together into a final value for the Content Item.

Warnings

Picklists have been created for configuring non-displaying Content Items, such as style classes. Therefore, Picklist Items are not localisable.

User Journeys

1. Managing Picklists