I don’t think we can nest group fields in another group field.

dangerous052 years ago

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  tyteen4a032 years ago

  Don't use groups is my advice

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  tylandavis

  2 years ago

  Hey

  @789268703774375986

  , you actually can do this! Here's an example:

  
  
  

  fields: [
    {
      name: 'topGroup',
      label: 'Top Group',
      type: 'group',
      fields: [
        {
          name: 'field1',
          label: 'Field 1',
          type: 'text',
        },
        {
          name: 'nestedGroup',
          label: 'Nested Group',
          type: 'group',
          fields: [
            {
              name: 'field2',
              label: 'Field 2',
              type: 'text',
            },
          ],
        },
      ],
    },
  ]
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  rufella2 years ago

  Always try to reload the express server first 😛

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  dangerous052 years ago

  hey

  
  
  

  i just did UI

  
  
  

  i spent the 100 hours overthe last 7 days working on our payload setup

  
  
  

  okay so

  
  
  

  can we use default values

  
  
  

  for blocks

  
  
  

  that returns an object

  
  
  

  i have some dynamic recursive stuff going on

  
  
  

  it doesnt work well so i had to not use group

  
  
  

  hmm

  
  
  

  dont think u can

  
  
  

  add default value for grooups

  
  
  

  yea u have to do default value at each level

  
  
  

  individually

  
  
  

  u cant pass an object to a group

  
  
  

  thats weak

  
  
  

  how do we add default value to ui type

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  tylandavis

  2 years ago

  UI field types don't have values, they are just for adding in custom React components. If you want to store value with a custom component, start with a field type that stores value such as

  text

  or

  number

  , whatever the type of data you want to save, and then use

  admin.components

  to customize it.

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  dangerous052 years ago

  i eventuallu figured it out thanks

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  oatmochalast year

  Hi sorry for following up on an old post, were there any specific reasons or disadvantages to using groups? Will it complicate my config to nest fields within groups?

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  simka0997last year

  Don't use groups is my advice

  isn't good advice in my opinion. I mean the use cases of Payload vary so much...

  
  
  

  You do "pay a price" for using them. For example: Payload doesn't allow to display nested fields in the list view atm (V2, not sure about V3).

  
  
  

  You can still create a custom list view or add the column yourself, it's just a little more work.

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  tyteen4a03last year

  The generated UI is not as nice

  
  
  

  I don't remember if filtering has improved now

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  anders2292last year

  Filtering works in v3 beta, but lisview does not yet.