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id: SC-2
title: Fields and their types
group: Listing schema
summary: Adding, renaming, reordering and retyping your schema's fields, and which types a field can be
keywords: [field, add field, type, text, number, money, year, date, pick-list, choice, dimensions, unit, label, rename, reorder]
---

A field is one thing every listing can have a value for: a Make, a Price, a Size. Your fields are listed under **Fields** in Inventory Settings (**Edit** on the listings page), each with its type and a **globe** (on the website) or a **lock** (only in this app).

## Adding a field

**Add Field**. Give it a **Label**, choose its **Type**, then **Add**.

## The types

- **Text**: anything typed.
- **Number**: with an optional **Unit** shown beside it, such as *mi*, *mm* or *kg*.
- **Money**: shown as dollars on the site.
- **Year**.
- **Date**: picked from a calendar, shown as *Oct 2, 2026*.
- **Pick-list**: chosen from **Choices** you list. Type one under **Add a choice** and tap or click **Add**; the minus button beside a choice removes it.
- **Dimensions**: a width, a height and optionally a depth, in inches or centimeters. See Dimensions and View on your wall (LS-8).

## Changing a field

Tap or click a field to open its editor. You can rename it at any time: every listing keeps its value, under the new label. To reorder fields, use the menu beside each one (**•••**): **Move Earlier** or **Move Later**. The order is the order of the listing's form and of a listing's details on the site. As with every change here, it reaches the site when you publish Inventory Settings with the check mark.

## Changing a type

While no listing has a value for a field, it can become any type. Once one does, it can change only to a type its values still make sense as: **Text** and **Pick-list** to each other, and **Number**, **Money** and **Year** among themselves. The **Type** menu then lists only those types, and says how many listings have a value. For another type, add a new field instead.

## A label that brings values back

If you removed a field but kept its values, giving a new field the same label brings them back. The editor says so first: *12 listings already have a Blade size; they'll show again.*

## The field's other settings

Each field's editor also has **Show on the website**, explained in Only in this app (LS-5), and, for fields on the website, **Headline**, **Search filter**, **Sort by it** and **When empty, show…**. See Headline, search and When empty (SC-3).

Labels can be up to 40 characters, choices up to 60.