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Exploring field types and options - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Exploring field types and options
In an earlier video you saw how to create a content type that we called product and how to add fields to it. Once again as a reminder, you go up to Structure, down to Content types, and then you can add a content type here, or add fields to an existing content type by clicking Manage fields. We added three fields. The SKU, which is a five digit number, the Price, and a Product photo. But those are only a few field types of the many that are available in Drupal, and you could see them by clicking this Select a field type pop-up menu here. Some of the ones we didn't even come close to touching were List, Float, which is a kind of number, and Long text, along with Long text and summary. We also didn't talk about this area down here very much, Add existing field. We'll explore both of these things in this video. Now, so we don't mess up anything we've already done, I'm going to first create a temporary content type, which I'll simply call Temp. As usual, I go up to Structure and Content…
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