How do you handle nested taxonomies?

thgh

last month

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  jacobsfletch

  Payload Team

  2 weeks 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
• 

  thgh

  last week

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

  
  

  
  

  Thanks, will check it out!

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  jacobsfletch

  Payload Team

  last week

  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