JSON custom field example

dianogalast year

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{
  uri: String;
  title?: String;
  external: boolean;
}

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  notchrlast year

  @113397743300386816

  Good morning! This may be better for a relationship field, but it's likely possible with the JSON field. Have you seen the example on the Documentation page?

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

  Yep. In this case I'm building a custom field on top of the JSON field. My attempt at link handling before this was using a

  group

  of fields;

  relationship

  for internal links,

  text

  for external links, and an optional

  text

  for the link title (assuming it was relevant).

  
  
  

  My goal now is to build out a custom input that will deal with all of it and attach the necessary information directly to the document to avoid query depth

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  notchrlast year

  Ah I see, out of curiosity, what was the depth issue?

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  dianogalast year

  This is a borderline premature optimization. It feels silly to need to bring in everything about a page every time I want to show a link (which just needs a path and maybe the title). In the case of navigation menus with many links that is a lot of unnecessary data being sent around.

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  notchrlast year

  Ah I see that makes sense if there are a lot of links

  
  
  

  You could also add an endpoint to the links collection for getting back just a specific link in a relation

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  dianogalast year

  I haven't played with custom endpoints yet. I suspect that will be useful here as well. We don't have a specific collection for links right now and the need for external link support makes things that little bit extra complicated.

  
  
  

  As I'm thinking through the actual UI for this, I may be able to do what I need using built in fields with hooks and maybe conditional logic