How to use self-added dexterity fields in Plone5.1.1?

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I added a new field to default dexterity content type "File".
How can I use this field in display, searching and collections? How to hide/show this field to some groups?
Does this in the same way for different field types?

Regards.
Hugo

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To display the content of the field, you need to customize the template(s) for whatever view(s) you want it to appear in. There is some information about that here:
https://training.plone.org/5/mastering-plone/zpt_2.html

To use it in searching/collections, you need to add an index for the field:
https://docs.plone.org/external/plone.app.dexterity/docs/advanced/catalog-indexing-strategies.html
(Not sure if you are working on the filesystem on through-the-web, but there are instructions for both there.)

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Thanks，abosio :slight_smile:

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  1. In order to make my self-added field searchable
    First I added this line in my profiles/default/types/File.xml
    <element value="collective.dexteritytextindexer.behavior.IDexterityTextIndexer" />

Then which file should I add these code to? :

from collective import dexteritytextindexer
from plone.autoform.interfaces import IFormFieldProvider
from plone.supermodel.model import Schema
from zope import schema
from zope.interface import alsoProvides
class IMyBehavior(Schema):
    dexteritytextindexer.searchable('specialfield')
    specialfield = schema.Text(title=u'Special field')
alsoProvides(IMyBehavior, IFormFieldProvider)
  1. I added a new dexterity content type, but I could not find the .xml file in the directory profiles/default/types/. Should I do it manually?

Regards.
Hugo