Joomla! Documentation™

Left Panel

• Description. The description of the field group. A text that will be shown as a tool tip when the user moves the mouse over the text box while he use it in the Backend creating an article or a contact or a third party component that supports custom fields. This text is not translatable. You do not see this description in the Frontend.

Right Panel

• Status. The published status of this field group.
  • Published: The field group is visible while editing an article or an contact. And it is visible in the Frontend.
  • Unpublished: The field group will not be visible to users while editing an article or an contact.
  • Archived: The field group will no longer show on edition an article or an contact. You can open it in Field Groups when you set the filter to archived.
  • Trashed: The field group is deleted but still in the database. It can be permanently deleted from the database in Field Groups with the Empty Trash function. Learn more.
• Access. Select the viewing access level for this field group. The access levels depend on what has been set up in Users: Access Levels.
• Language. Select the language for this field group. If you are not using the multi-language feature of Joomla, keep the default of 'All'.
• Note. An optional field to make your personal notes for the field group.