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This documentation provides form builders and developers with a reference for working with field controls, layouts, templates, callbacks and other extensibility points within Alpaca. As a very richly designed and powerful forms engine, you can do quite a lot with Alpaca and so we encourage you to read through the docs thoroughly. Within them, you will find configuration details as well as inline examples that you can tweak and play with.

Fields

Alpaca provides many different out-of-the-box field types. The core field types have no external dependencies whereas the extension types depend on various third-party libraries.

Core Fields

• Any
• Array
• Checkbox
• File

• Hidden
• Number
• Object
• Radio

• Select
• Text Area
• Text

More Fields

• Address
• Chooser
• Color
• Color Picker
• CK Editor
• Country
• Currency
• Date
• Date Time
• Editor
• Email
• Grid

• Image
• Integer
• IPV4
• JSON
• Lower Case
• Map
• Markdown Editor
• Option Tree
• Password
• Personal Name
• Phone
• Pick A Color

• Search
• State
• Summernote Editor
• Table
• Tag
• Token
• Time
• Tiny MCE
• Upload
• Upper Case
• URL
• Zip Code

API Topics

We've provided chapters here on a variety of interesting API-related topics.

• Callbacks
• Connectors
• Cookbook
• Conditional Dependencies
• Custom Fields
• Data Sources
• Dependencies
• Events
• Functions
• Forms
• Internationalization
• Layouts
• Lookups
• Observables
• Ordering
• References
• Recursive References
• Serialization
• Templates
• Usage
• Validation
• Views
• Wizards

Cookbook - More Examples

Here are some more examples of more complex form configurations.

• Nested Tables

JavaScript Documentation

We generate JSDoc for all of the Alpaca source code.

• Alpaca JSDoc