field

The following options can be specified for a field tag:

Name	Required	Details
name	required	Identifier for this field, unique per model. Used anywhere that code needs to reference the object.
label	required	Human-readable label for this field. Used wherever it is displayed to a user.
type	required	The type of this field. See the section below for the possible types.

Nested Tags

The following can be placed inside a field tag:

Nested Element	Details
option	Applicable to choice types. Specifies a single option key and label.

Field Types

Fields in your Data Model and variables in your Views are set up to store a specific kind of data — which can be any of the following:

Integer: integer

Can accurately represent numbers between -231 and 231-1 (-2 147 483 648 and 2 147 483 647).

Example: 100

Floating point value: number

Uses JavaScript's implementation of IEEE 754 and therefore supports MAX/MIN values of Number.MAX_VALUE => 1.7976931348623157e+308 Number.MIN_VALUE => 5e-324

Example: 3.14

Text values: text

Text value - anything from a short name to longer paragraphs. Some subtypes are defined for text values, which affect the input method shown to the user on a mobile device, and may provide additional validations. Please refer to the Text Subtypes section below.

Example: "John Doe"

Date: date

Represents a date in the Gregorian calendar, for example "2016/10/27". Not tied to any timezone.

Example: 2016/10/27

Date and time: datetime

Represents a specific date & time combination. Time is always displayed in the local timezone. For example, "2016/10/27 12:15:48" in UTC will be displayed as "2016/10/27 14:15:48" on a device configured for GMT+2.

Example: 2016/10/27 12:15:48

GPS location: location

Represents a set of GPS coordinates. This includes:

• latitude

• longitude

• altitude

• horizontal_accuracy

• vertical_accuracy

• timestamp

Limitation

Capturing the altitude and/or vertical_accuracy is not supported on several platforms / devices, including Android devices. These devices will return undefined or null for these fields.

Example:

{
    "latitude": -25.92593042155752,
    "longitude": 28.15002065192829,
    "altitude": 1570.0,
    "horizontal_accuracy": 10.0,
    "vertical_accuracy": null,
    "timestamp": "2013-10-17T07:25:21Z"
}

Single choice with text key: single-choice

Represents a single choice from a list of options, for example "gender" or "province". Options are specified as a list of string key and label pairs.

• When accessed from JavaScript/TypeScript, the key is used.

• When displaying the value to a user, the human-readable label is used.

Example options:

<option key="male">Male</option>
<option key="female">Female</option>

For the example, if the "Female" option was selected, the value when accessed from your JavaScript/TypeScript code would be "female".

Single choice with integer key: single-choice-integer

Represents a single choice from a list of options, for example "gender" or "province". Options are specified as a list of integer key and label pairs.

• When accessed from JavaScript/TypeScript, the integer key is used.

• When displaying the value to a user, the human-readable label is used.

• If the keys are not explicitly defined, they start counting from 0 and increment by one for each option.

Example options:

<option key="0">Male</option>
<option key="1">Female</option>

For the example, if the "Female" option was selected, the value when accessed from your JavaScript/TypeScript code would be: 1.

Boolean: boolean

Represents a single choice from two boolean options, for example "Checked" or "Not Checked". Options are specified as two list of boolean key and label pairs, defaulting to "Yes" (true) and "No" (false).

• When accessed from JavaScript/TypeScript, the boolean key is used.

• When displaying the value to a user, the human-readable label is used.

Example options:

<option key="true">Checked</option>
<option key="false">Not Checked</option>

For the example, if the "Not Checked" option was selected, the value when accessed from your JavaScript/TypeScript code would be: false.

Multiple choice with text key: multiple-choice

Same as a single-choice field, but multiple values may be selected.

• When you access a multiple-choice value from JavaScript/TypeScript, the value will be an array of keys of all the selected options.

Example options:

<option key="checked-oil">Checked oil</option>
<option key="checked-tyre-pressure">Checked type pressure</option>
<option key="checked-water-fluid">Checked washer fluid</option>

For the example, if the first two options were selected, the value when accessed from your JavaScript/TypeScript code would be: ["checked-oil", "checked-tyre-pressure"]

Multiple choice with integer key: multiple-choice-integer

Same as the single-choice-integer field, but multiple values may be selected.

• When you access a multiple-choice-integer value from JavaScript/TypeScript, the value will be an array of integer keys of all the selected options.

Example options:

<option key="0">Checked oil</option>
<option key="1">Checked type pressure</option>
<option key="2">Checked washer fluid</option>
<option key="0">Checked oil</option>
<option key="1">Checked type pressure</option>
<option key="2">Checked washer fluid</option>

For the example, if the first two options were selected, the value when accessed from your JavaScript/TypeScript code would be: [0, 1]

Photo: photo

Represents a photo file, captured as a JPEG image by the mobile application.

Signature: signature

Represents a signature file, captured as a 400x200px SVG file by the mobile application.

GPS track: track

Represents a recorded GPS tracking session. Data can be displayed on a map in the App Backend or exported to GeoJSON, GPX or KML.

File attachment: attachment

Variable for capturing files. Must include a media attribute with one of the following types:

• any

• image/jpeg

• image/png

• image/svg+xml

• application/pdf

• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation

• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

• application/vnd.ms-excel

• application/vnd.valvelink (Maps to .exp files. Introduced in JourneyApps Runtime version 4.90.0)

• application/msword

• text/plain

• text/csv

• application/xml

• application/vnd.anritsu

For example:

  <var name="file" type="attachment" media="any" />

Text Subtypes

As discussed above, some subtypes are defined for text types, which affect the input method shown to the user on a mobile device, and may provide additional validations.

To use one of these subtypes, add :subtype to a text field definition, for example:

<field name="first_name" label="First Name" type="text:name" />

Subtype	Details	Additional validation?
(none)	The default - any characters are allowed.	No
text:email	Email address.	Yes. Validates whether the entered value is a valid email address.
text:address	Street address, suburb or city. Words are automatically capitalized.	No
text:name	Person or other name. Words are automatically capitalized.	No
text:url	Web URL.	No
text:paragraph	A multi-line block of text. Renders as a paragraph rather than as a single line.	No
text:number	Only digits are allowed.	No
text:signed-number	Digits are allowed, as well as a negative sign.	Yes. Validates whether the entered value is a valid signed number.
text:phone-number	Represents a phone number. Only digits are allowed.	Yes. Validates whether the entered value is a valid phone number.
text:decimal-number	Digits are allowed, as well as a decimal point and negative sign.	No
text:password	Characters are hidden when entered.	No