FireCMS

Custom fields allow you to customize the field that it is displayed in the form, related to a specific property. These fields use your own logic to render the corresponding view, and are responsible for updating the underlying property value.

If you need a custom field for your property you can do it by passing a React component to the fieldConfig prop of a property config. The React component must accept the props of type FieldProps. The bare minimum you need to implement is a field that displays the received value and uses the setValue callback.

You can also pass custom props to your custom field, which you then receive in the customProps prop.

If you are developing a custom field and need to access the values of the entity, you can use the context field in FieldProps.

You can check all the props FieldProps

This is an example of a custom TextField that takes the background color as a prop

import React from "react";
import { TextField } from "@mui/material";
import { FieldDescription, FieldProps } from "@camberi/firecms";

interface CustomColorTextFieldProps {
    color: string
}

export default function CustomColorTextField({
                                                 property,
                                                 value,
                                                 setValue,
                                                 customProps,
                                                 touched,
                                                 error,
                                                 isSubmitting,
                                                 context, // the rest of the entity values here
                                                 ...props
                                             }: FieldProps<string, CustomColorTextFieldProps>) {


    return (
        <>
            <TextField required={property.validation?.required}
                       sx={{
                           backgroundColor: customProps.color
                       }}
                       error={!!error}
                       disabled={isSubmitting}
                       label={property.title}
                       value={value ?? ""}
                       onChange={(evt: any) => {
                           setValue(
                               evt.target.value
                           );
                       }}
                       helperText={error}
                       fullWidth
                       variant={"filled"}/>

            <FieldDescription property={property}/>
        </>

    );

}

...and how it is used:

export const blogCollection = buildCollection({
    name: "Blog entry",
    properties: {
        // ...
        gold_text: {
            name: "Gold text",
            description: "This field is using a custom component defined by the developer",
            dataType: "string",
            Field: CustomColorTextField,
            customProps: {
                color: "gold"
            }
        }
    }
});