Custom fields

If you need a custom field for your property you can do it by passing a React component to the Field 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]

Example

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