Field Views

Configuring field views in Umbraco UI Builder, the backoffice UI builder for Umbraco.

Field Views allow you to customize the markup used by a field when displayed in a list view. Field Views are implemented as .NET Core View Components that are passed a single FieldViewsContext argument with information about the entity/field being rendered.

Defining a field view

You can define a field view in one of two ways.

1. A basic view file for the built in FieldView view component

The simplest way to define a field view for non-complex fields is to place a view file in the /Views/Shared/Components/FieldView folder with the following markup.

@model Umbraco.UIBuilder.Web.Models.FieldViewContext
<!-- Insert your markup here -->

When registering a basic file view you can pass the name of the view file (excluding the .cshtml file extension) to the relevant API method.

2. A complete custom view component

To define a more complex field view you can create your own view component class (which can use dependency injection for any required dependencies). This can be done by using the following signature:

// Example
public class MyComplexFieldViewViewComponent : ViewComponent
{
    public async Task<IViewComponentResult> InvokeAsync(FieldViewContext context)
    {
        // Do your custom logic here

        return View("Default", model);
    }
}

It's important to know that the FieldViewContext parameter to the InvokeAsync method MUST be named context.

For the view element of your component, based on the example above, you would place a file Default.cshtml into the /Views/Shared/Components/MyComplexFieldView folder with the following markup:

@model Namespace.Of.Model.Returned.By.Custom.ViewComponent
<!-- Insert your markup here -->

The field view context

Field view components are passed a FieldViewContext object with the following information:

public class FieldViewContext
{
    public string ViewName { get; set; }
    public object Entity { get; set; }
    public string PropertyName { get; set; }
    public object PropertyValue { get; set; }
}

Setting the field view of a list view field

A field view is assigned to a list view field as part of the list view configuration. For more information you can check the List View Documentation.