Dynamic select field values

samtietjen

3 months ago

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burgers: {
   fields: {
     name: text
     toppings: array[ingredient<ref>, variety<string>]
   }
}

ingredients: {
   fields: {
     name: text
     varieties: string[]
   }
}

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  3 months ago

  if you want dynamic select values, there are a few things to consider

  
  

  
  

  to me, "ingredients" would be a separate collection and then you'd just use a relationship field with a

  filterOptions

  function to narrow down the available options

  
  

  
  

  but if you didn't want to use a relationship field, then my answer would be different

  
  

  
  

  a "select" field is an

  enum

  - - which means that the options available need to be

  known

  and can't be dynamic

  
  

  
  

  if you don't know all the potential options, then you should actually make a text field, and then provide a custom component - wherein, you'd render a select field and just provide the select field with the dynamic options that you need

  
  

  
  

  the reason is that a text field isn't an enum - - it will accept any text value... whereas a select field, you need to know the options in advance

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  samtietjen

  3 months ago

  Oh yeah my bad, should’ve specified this. So those two are different collections. The ref is to “cheese” in ingredients. We don’t want “cheese” in our new burger item though. We want “pepper jack” which is from an array within “cheese”. From what I’m hearing though it seems like the only way to go is to create each variety of cheese as it’s own item in the collection. Rather referencing a value (pepper jack) within the cheese item.

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  jarrod69420

  3 months ago

  Is there a reason you group the cheeses into 1 ingredient instead of creating a doc for each cheese? Might be easier to do it that way!

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  samtietjen

  3 months ago

  This is an extremelllyyy abstract example because the company I’m working with is in manufacturing, so the terminology can get wild. I think you’re right though. I’ll try and solve it through better architecture instead.

  
  

  
  

  Thanks guys!