---
title: li-system-text
description: "A simple text value store as system metadata."
---
## 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 simple text value store, almost identical to `li-text`, but as system metadata (does not indicate a draft content change).
Added in: [`release-2024-09`](/operations/releases/release-2024-09/).

It can be used in cases where a simple text value should be stored in the metadata, but the document version should not
be increased when the metadata value changes. Or in other words, it will not show up as unpublished change.

Key differences to `li-text`:
- Does not indicate a draft content change (system metadata)
- Restricted to document metadata
- Not translatable
- No validation hooks


## Default UI

Renders a select element if a `dataProvider` is configured, otherwise renders an autogrowing reasonably sized textarea.

## Storage Format

```js
<String>
```

## Content Type Config

```js
{
  handle: 'myContentType',
  // ...
  metadata: [
    {
      handle: 'myHandle'
      type: 'li-system-text',
      config: {
        // common
        hideFromForm: false,                     // optional, default: false
        required: true,                          // optional, default: false
        requiredErrorMessage: 'Provide a value', // optional
        // specific
        minLength: 100,                          // optional
        maxLength: 200,                          // optional
        recommendedMinLength: 110,               // optional
        recommendedMaxLength: 150,               // optional
        allowNewlines: false,                    // default: undefined, validated if set. Effect on ui: newlines are stripped uf not true and ui.config.rows is undefined and ui.component is not liMetaTextareaForm
        index: true,                             // optional, default: false.
        dataProvider: {                          // optional
          // Option 1 - list of items
          type: 'labelValuePair',
          items: [
            {label: 'Item A', value: 'a'},
            {label: 'Item B', value: 'b', isDefault: true}, // isDefault sets the value if document opened the first time
            {label: 'Item C', value: 'c'}
          ]
          // Option 2 - DataSource
          dataSource: 'labelValuePairDataSource'
        }
      },
      ui: {
        label: 'foo',                   // optional, takes camelized name otherwise
        config: {
          placeholder: 'bar',           // optional, takes camelized name otherwise
          readOnly: true                // optional, default: false
        }
      }
    }
    // ...
  ]
}
```