Deprecate the Label field

The document type editor offers the option to add a field of the type Label. This does not offer more functionality than a regular String field. It was once created to support translatable strings, but that functionality is now offered through Resource Bundles.

The best way to indicate to developers not to use this type of field anymore is to update the label for it in the list of primitive fields. At the path /hippo:configuration/hippo:translations/hippo:types/hipposys:Label, update all childnodes for all languages.

In the upgrade instructions for 12.6 we can suggest to update all document types that have a Label field:

• find all nodes of type hipposysedit:field where the property hipposysedit:type has the value "Label".
• change this to "String".

There is no functional change. The already stored data for Label fields does not have to be updated.