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Managed Data Fields give you the ability to easily define and manage structured data fields globally in Confluence, instantiate field definitions on Confluence pages and perform queries on existing field instances.
Add a Field Definition
Manage Access Control
Per default, every Confluence user may add, edit and delete Field Definitions, as described in Add a Field Definition. However, the access to Field Definition page can be controlled via Confluence user groups. If you the user group managed-data-fields-editors exists and contains at least one member, access is only granted to users in this group.
These users will then see a new button Field Definitions in the Confluence top bar, which allows quick access from everywhere in Confluence to the Managed Data Fields Definition page.
Field Types
You can defined Data Fields of different types. As native types we refer to fields that define a text input, a date picker, a dropdown field, an option field with single or multi select.
Additionally, option fields are defined with fixed option values, i.e. you predefine all values, that can be assigned to an instance of this field.
Instantiate a Definition
Once you defined your Managed Data Field, eventually with predefined values in case