---
title: li-system-enum
description: "A select form based on a statically defined list."
---

## History

| Version | Change |
| ------- | ------ |
| release-2025-05 | Table dashboard support was added in the `2025-05` release. |

## Supported Features

| Feature | Supported |
| ------- | :-------: |
| Document | ✔ |
| Media | ✗ |
| Include | ✗ |
| Document Creation Flow | ✗ |
| Push Message | ✗ |
| Usage Log | ✗ |
| Table Dashboard | ✔ |
| Display Filter | ✔ |
| Search Indexing | ✔ |
| System Metadata | ✔ |
| Planning System | ✗ |
| Webhook Conditions | ✔ |

## Description

A `li-system-enum` metadata field shows a select form based on a statically defined list. On publish the selected value gets validated against the defined static list. With that you can assure that only specific values gets published.

[Display Filters](/customising/advanced/editor-configuration/display-filter/llms.txt#metadata-filters) support Added in: [`release-2023-09`](/operations/releases/release-2023-09/)


## Default UI

Select input

![image](../images/li-enum-ui.png)

## Storage Format

```js
<String>
```

## Content Type Config

```js
{
  handle: 'myContentType',
  // ...
  metadata: [
    {
      handle: 'myHandle'
      type: 'li-system-enum',
      config: {
        // common
        hideFromForm: false,                     // optional, default: false
        required: true,                          // optional, default: false
        requiredErrorMessage: 'Provide a value', // optional
        index: true,                              // optional, default: false
        // specific
        dataProvider: {                          // required
          type: 'labelValuePair',                // required
          items: [
            {label: 'Tag A', value: 'a'},
            {label: 'Tag B', value: 'b', isDefault: true}, // isDefault sets the value if document opened the first time
            {label: 'Tag C', value: 'c'}
          ]
        }
      },
      ui: {
        label: 'foo',                   // optional, takes camelized name otherwise
        config: {
          readOnly: true,               // optional, default: false
          placeholder: 'foo'           // optional, takes camelized name otherwise
        }
      }
    }
    // ...
  ]
}
```