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That is not possible right now.

You can however, create a fieldtype provider that will render a append box.

See examples attached.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai,

Thank you. I have imagined it should be custom but I was not sure that it could be done even with custom code.

Thank you for sharing your code.

Adrian

Hi Nicolai,

Does this exist as a TFS item already? I see this request "more and more" with customers. The unit might just be a label that's appended to the field value. Making it a string allows for any string the customers would have needs for.

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Hi Nicolai,

One of my colleagues tried to create a new FieldType and I got this feedback:

".. I see that in Dynamicweb.Ecommerce.FieldTypeProviders dll is defined a class (LengthFieldTypeProvider) that is created from abstract class ConversionUnitFieldTypeProviderBase; I want to create a similar class like  LengthFieldTypeProvider ; I have to create it from my own custom dll; the problem is that I have to overwrite the function  InitalizeOptions ( override Dictionary<string, ConversionUnit> InitalizeOptions()); the problem is that in class ConversionUnitFieldTypeProviderBase function  InitalizeOptions  is declared internal and is not exported in dll to be seen from others dll( internal abstract Dictionary<string, ConversionUnit> InitalizeOptions()).

Can be function InitalizeOptions  declared public or protected so it can be seen from derived classes?

..."

What would be the recommended approach?

Thank you,
Adrian

Hi Nicolai,

Thank you. We'll do that.

Adrian