Communities custom fields

Introduced in InvenioRDM v10

Communities custom fields can be configured in a very similar manner than records. The only difference is the prefix of the configuration variables and the place where they are displayed.

Quickstart, how does it look?

To add a community external URL field, you will need to configure the type of field and how it should be displayed. The configuration will look like:

from invenio_records_resources.services.custom_fields import TextCF

COMMUNITIES_CUSTOM_FIELDS = [
    TextCF(name="external_url")
]

COMMUNITIES_CUSTOM_FIELDS_UI = [
    {
        "section": _("Additional information"),
        "fields": [
            dict(
                field="external_url",
                ui_widget="Input",
                props=dict(
                    label="External URL",
                    placeholder="https://your.community.url",
                    icon="pencil",
                    description="The external URL of your community or project.",
                )
            ),
        ]
    }
]

Configuration

In order to add custom fields to your instance, you can use the following configuration variables:

• COMMUNITIES_NAMESPACES - Defines fields namespaces to avoid name clashes. However, if this variable is not filled in, RDM_NAMESPACES will be used. Therefore, allowing for global namespacing across custom fields.
• COMMUNITIES_CUSTOM_FIELDS - Defines the name, type, and validation rules of your fields.
• COMMUNITIES_CUSTOM_FIELDS_UI - Defines how the fields are displayed in the UI.

Initialize

As for records, you will need to initialize the custom fields to make them searchable. The only difference is the CLI command:

cd my-site

# initialize all custom fields to make them searchable
pipenv run invenio communities custom-fields init

Displaying fields

Now that you have defined and initialized your custom fields and configured their type and validation rules, you need to configure how you want them to be displayed on the community settings/profile page.

Custom fields are displayed at the bottom of the page, similar to the image below:

Custom fields in the community page

With InvenioRDM v10, communities custom fields are not displayed in the community profile page, but they are searchable. This feature will be implemented in one of the following InvenioRDM releases.