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