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Forms

YunoHost uses a lot of forms. You can found here information on supported types question and properties.

Questions

Questions are called Options in the code.

Generic properties

Property Scope Description Example
type Everywhere Specify the type of the question (see bellow for the list) type = "string"
ask Everywhere The title of the question ask.en = "Cats or dogs ?"
help Everywhere An help message help.en = "Think carefully!"
optional Everywhere Set true if the question is not mandatory optional = true
readonly Everywhere Avoid user to be able to change the value readonly = true
example Everywhere Give an example to help to understand the format of the answer example = "camille@example.com"
pattern.regexp Everywhere Regex to validate the new value pattern.regexp = "^.+@.+$"
pattern.error Everywhere Error to display if the pattern doesn't match
redact Everywhere Avoid a confidential value to be logged redact = true
default Install A default value for the question
visible ConfigPanel A simple js expression based on other short keys questions to hide or display dynamically the question visible = "login && ! private_key"
bind AppConfigPanel See App configuration panel doc bind = "__INSTALL_DIR__/config.yml"
  • help, optional, readonly and visible are also available on panels and sections entities.
  • Long help messages could not to be correctly displayed for user using YunoHost CLI
  • For the moment default properties are not supported in app config panel and you have to initialize the value by yourself in config file or settings.

display_text (readonly)

Display a simple text.

markdown (readonly)

Display a markdown (if you don't use markdown features, prefer display_text)

alert (readonly)

Display an alert box with different style.

Property Description Default
style Style of the alert box (success, info, warning, danger) info

button

Display a button with different style (useful for custom actions).

Property Description Default
style Style of the alert box (success, info, warning, danger) success
enabled Enable or disable the button True

string

Input text monoline.

text

Input text multilines

Property Description Default
redact Style of the alert box (success, info, warning, danger) success

password

Password input. {} chars are forbidden and value is not added to logs.

color

Hexadecimal color starting with # with a color picker.

number

An integer.

Property Description Example
min Minimal value
max Maximum value
step Steps between each next possible value

range

Property Description Example
min Minimal value
max Maximum value
step Steps between each next possible value

boolean

Property Description Example
yes
no

date

A date picker with date in the format YYYY-MM-DD

time

A time picker

email

An email input

path

url

By default it ask for a web URL but you can change the pattern if you want to.

file

File question

Property Description Example
accept Same format than HTML file input

This file type is not made for big files transfer, it's just for small logo, or config files.

select

Dropdown

Property Description Example
choices list or dictionary of choices

tags

Multi choices selection.

Property Description Example
choices List or dictionary of choices

domain

List all added domains

app

List all installed apps

user

List all users

group

List all groups

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