Built-in Content Types

Speck includes a number of content types, listed below, which you can use when building applications. To learn more about these content types, have a look at the source templates in /webapps/speck/tags/types/ and the code for the sample application.

TODO: add more detail about the properties and methods for the built-in content types.

There are also two content types that you should not need to use directly, the spDefault and spKeywords content types. The spDefault content type defines some default methods used by Speck when managing content. The spKeywords content type is used to manage application keywords. You should not modify either of these content types.

Article

Use for news articles, features etc., content items that have title, summary, content body, related documents, and other meta information.

Blurb

This simple content type for managing HTML blurb has only one property and one method.

Document

Allows documents to be uploaded. See document property for a list of allowed file extensions. Uploaded documents are publicly accessible and are stored in the assets directory.

Event

Similar to the article content type, but with a few properties that are specific to events, like start and end dates, venue, time etc.

Image

A content type for managing images, including a method to handle contentPut events. The contentPut method obtains the dimensions of the uploaded images and saves this info as properties of the content type.