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

juliandm1995last year

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  notchrlast year

  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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  httpslinuslast year

  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

  last year

  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

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  gokulsck4 months ago

  Hi @jmikrut any update on the development of this feature?

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  jmikrut

  4 months ago

  not yet, but it is supported on the

  number

  field and it could be a good PR to make that just follows along with what the

  number

  field supports

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  gokulsck4 months ago

  Any ETA on this change?

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  jmikrut

  4 months ago

  it's a good question, let me add it to the roadmap officially so we can track it / work toward it

  
  

  
  

  how do you feel about building it? i could point you in the right direction

  
  

  
  

  otherwise it might take us 1-2 months

  
  

  
  

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/4393