9.15 General-Purpose Fields ↑
9.15.1 Boolean
The word boolean
can be used as a type. The word bool
will be recognized as a shorthand identification for this type as well.
A Collection can have any number of fields of type boolean
.
A boolean type will produce a field that can have a value of true
or false
, and that will be represented as a checkbox when editing.
Values for a Boolean field type will be interpreted in the following ways:
- Anything starting with the letter ‘y’ (such as ‘yes’) will be interpreted as
true
; - Anything starting with the letter ‘n’ (such as ‘no’) will be interpreted as false;
- Anything starting with the letter ‘t’ (such as ‘true’) will be interpreted as
true
; - Anything starting with the letter ‘f’ (such as ‘false’) will be interpreted as
false
; - The word ‘on’ will be interpreted as
true
; - The digit ‘1’ will be interpeted as
true
; - Any other value will be interpreted as
false
.
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