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Version: 5.1 (Archived)

Aliastag Form Field

The aliastag form field type provides a list box containing specific language definitions. It does this by getting a unique list of components and objects from #__contentitem_tag_map and then extracting the language definitions for each entry, i.e. it gets "com_content.article" from querying #__contentitem_tag_map and then splits it into com_content and article and looks for COM_CONTENT_TAGS_ARTICLE="Article" in the administrator language com_content.sys

  • type (mandatory) must be aliastag.
  • name (mandatory) is the unique name of the field.
  • label (mandatory) (translatable) is the field html label.
  • description (optional) (translatable) is the field description.
  • multiple (optional) if set to true allows multiple items to be selected at the same time. Set to false to allow single selection.
  • required (optional) if set to true, the first field option should be empty, see last example.

Implemented by: libraries/src/Form/Field/AliastagField.php, but not currently used within Joomla

Example XML parameter definition

<field
name="myaliastags"
type="aliastag"
label="Select a tag"
description=""
/>