Issue with custom category attribute and category_form.xml layout. Data is not retrieved from database

Question

Field that retrieves the data, but there is no label and the issue with width

<field name="custom_category_footer_description">
 <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="class" xsi:type="string">Magento\Catalog\Ui\Component\Category\Form\Element\Wysiwyg
 </item>
 <item name="formElement" xsi:type="string">wysiwyg</item>
 <item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Custom Category Footer Description</item>
 <item name="wysiwyg" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
 <item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">custom_category_footer_description</item>
 <item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">36</item>
 </item>
 </argument>
 <formElements>
 <wysiwyg class="Magento\Catalog\Ui\Component\Category\Form\Element\Wysiwyg">
 <settings>
 <rows>4</rows>
 <wysiwyg>false</wysiwyg>
 </settings>
 </wysiwyg>
 </formElements>
</field>

Field that has correct template usage, but doesn't retrieve the data.

<field name="custom_category_footer_description" template="ui/form/field" sortOrder="36" formElement="wysiwyg">
 <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="class" xsi:type="string">Magento\Catalog\Ui\Component\Category\Form\Element\Wysiwyg</item>
 <item name="formElement" xsi:type="string">wysiwyg</item>
 <item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Custom Category Footer Description</item>
 <item name="dataScope" xsi:type="string">custom_category_footer_description</item>
 <item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">36</item>
 </item>
 </argument>
 <formElements>
 <wysiwyg class="Magento\Catalog\Ui\Component\Category\Form\Element\Wysiwyg">
 <settings>
 <rows>4</rows>
 <wysiwyg>false</wysiwyg>
 </settings>
 </wysiwyg>
 </formElements>
</field>

What needs to be changed?

Answer 1

<field name="custom_category_footer_description" sortOrder="36" template="ui/form/field" formElement="wysiwyg">
 <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="config" xsi:type="array"> 
 <item name="source" xsi:type="string">custom_category_footer_description</item>
 <item name="is_pagebuilder_enabled" xsi:type="boolean">false</item> <-- just in case you have one but don't need it there
 </item>
 </argument>
 <settings> 
 <label translate="true">Custom Category Footer Description</label>
 <dataScope>custom_category_footer_description</dataScope>
 </settings>
 <formElements>
 <wysiwyg class="Magento\Catalog\Ui\Component\Category\Form\Element\Wysiwyg">
 <settings>
 <rows>4</rows>
 <wysiwyg>true</wysiwyg>
 </settings>
 </wysiwyg>
 </formElements>
</field>

• Dramorian: in my xml layout i have two custom attributes and only the one shows/saves the data depending on their sort order (if the layout is correct and done similarly to core's category_form). once i do the incorrect version (that doesn't have the label), it fetches and saves data for both...