The Dynamic Fields Pre-Structured offers a convenient interface where you can pre-manage custom fields and data. Chameleon offers you the ability to organize all of your dynamic fields into human-readable, easily to navigate groups and fields which makes both manual and automated data population straightforward and easy. In addition, your organized dynamic data can include your own customized labels, called Display Names. These customized labels are an optional setting your Chameleon administrator can enable using a System Preference key called Display Names.
The advantage of taking the time to set up and organize your custom-labelled dynamic field hierarchy is having a well-thought out interface that is easy to populate and quick to review regardless of whether you choose to automate or manually manage the data.
You can create various groups and assign them to data types such as (Story, Topic, League, Team, Game, Media)
From HOME under Shared, select Dynamic Fields
Notes:
The key to dynamic data organization is consistency and forethought. The Automation Name values you assign in Chameleon for your dynamic fields and groups must match any external data feed's parser configuration for data automation. An external parser requires both the group's automation name and the field's automation name to correctly populate the correct dynamic field in your hierarchy so that it appears correctly in the Chameleon content module with the correct Display Name label.
You can make your dynamic fields freely available in Chameleon, or you can specify which content group your dynamic fields are available to in Chameleon. See the topic on Content Groups for details.
Add a Dynamic Field Group
- Click the ➕ Add Group button.
- Enter group information:
Display Name - the display label you want to see displayed in Chameleon for this dynamic field group when you are viewing it in a Chameleon content module.
Name - used both for incoming data feed parsing and in graphics to associate the tag with an object in the scene.
Default Module - the type of data that will typically use this group. Eg. Stories. This is also used to automatically filter the available fields in the dynamic field editor for quick access to the most relevant dynamic fields for the content at hand.
Content Group - this is the same content grouping feature used throughout Chameleon to organize your content and provide access to users appropriately. - Click 💾 Save button
Add a Dynamic Field For a Group
Select a group from the list.
- Click the ➕ Add Field button
- Enter field information:
Display Name - the display label you want to see displayed in Chameleon for this dynamic field when you are viewing it in a Chameleon content module.
Name - used both for incoming data feed parsing and in graphics to associate the tag with an object in the scene.
Type - choose Text, Number, or Toggle, etc - Click the checkmark ✅ button to save.
Dynamic Field Types
| Type | Notes |
|---|---|
| Text | Support for multiple lines of text |
| Number | Support for a single line of input May contain letters as well as numbers Eg. 3rd or 45 or 56.60 or $6700 |
| Toggle | Displays as a checkbox field that can be on or off |
| DateTime | Displays as a date and time selection control |
| Media | Allow you to pick a media file from your media bins or upload a new image. |
| JSON | Enables you to identify the text content as valid JSON for native format output from BLADE. |
Edit a dynamic group or field
- Click the Edit (pencil) button to modify a group or field at any time.
- Click 💾 Save button to save your changes.
Note: Changes made to the Name for either groups or fields can impact configured incoming data feeds as well as graphics data.