`listSearchableFields` for relationship picker?

see.ess

3 weeks ago

Does anyone know of a way that you can search by a field other than the title when selecting a record from a relationship field select dropdown?

In my example, I want to associate related "Fixtures" to one another, but I'd like the ability to search not only by the

title

, but also by the

partNumber

field. I can make this happen on the collection list page (by way of

listSearchableFields

in my collection declaration, but this doesn't seem to carry over to the select dropdown.

Any ideas?

dribbens
Payload Team
3 weeks ago
Currently that is not possible. This would be a great feature to add.

I would make it so that the relationship field has an
admin
property called
searchField
or similar that would take the path of the thing to search on.

Then the relationship field input could use that instead of the
useAstitle
field when the config option is present.

One thing that complexifies this a bit is that having multiple
relationTo
for different collection would need their own search fields. That leaves a lot of room for error, so maybe better to have it on the collection as a sibling to
listSearchableFields
. I'm thinking out loud.

The next step is to create a Github discussion for a new feature request where these details are figured out and somebody can go on to code it.

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