Is it possible to create a data collection as an array of strings instead of an array of objects wit

JulianDM1995

last week

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  thisisnotchris

  last week

  How about JSON?

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/json
  

  
  

  There may be a better way than JSON

  
  

  
  

  But alternatively, you could hook into the field hooks

  
  

  
  

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/fields
  

  
  

  And either format the field, or save to a field that is formatted as you want

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  linus

  last week

  Is there a reason to not just use

  
  

  interests.map(i => i.value);

  
  

  in your frontend to receive an array of strings?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last week

  i agree with everything above, but one other note, we are planning to add

  hasMany: true

  to the

  text

  field at some point in the future as well, which will allow for an array of strings

  
  

  
  

  but right now we don't support that