How do you handle nested taxonomies?

thgh

7 months ago

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  jacobsfletch

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  Enable the nested docs plugin

  https://github.com/payloadcms/plugin-nested-docs

  on a

  categories

  collection then use a relationship field to reference the category

  
  

  
  

  Here's an example

  categories

  collection

  
  

  {
      slug: 'categories',
      name: 'Categories',
      fields: [
          {
              name: 'name',
              type: 'text',
          }
      ]
  }

  
  

  
  

  Then in your Payload config, call the plugin

  
  
  

  import nestedDocs from '@payloadcms/plugin-nested-docs'
  
  export default buildConfig({
    ...
    nestedDocs({
      collections: ['categories'],
    }),
  })

  
  

  
  

  Then in a

  posts

  collection, use a relationship field

  
  
  

  {
      slug: 'posts',
      name: 'Posts',
      fields: [
          {
              name: 'title',
              type: 'text',
          },
          {
              name: 'categories',
              type: 'relationship',
              hasMany: true,
              relationTo: 'categories',
          }
      ]
  }

  
  

  
  

  This would enable something like

  News > Politics > United States
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  thgh

  6 months ago

  Oh lol, I thought docs stood for documentation, unfortunate naming 😛

  
  

  
  

  Thanks, will check it out!

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  jacobsfletch

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  Ahh makes sense. The original concept was actually “nested pages” but since this pattern applies to collections of any type “nested docs” made the most sense