Search on a localized field (i.e.: slug) with fallback

Hello everyone, I hope you're fine! 🤗

I'm currently struggling to understand if it's an expected behavior or not. I have a Product collection including a slug (which is generated based on the name of the product).

I wanted to have localized slugs to match the name in the user's language. But if the content is not set in one language I was expecting to be able to find the product anyway with the slug in the fallback language.

Is that something that should work?

  const product = await payload.find({
    collection: 'products',
    locale: 'fr',
    fallbackLocale: 'en',
    where: { slug: { equals: slug } },
    limit: 1,
  });

Or is that not really logical? How would you manage this case?

Thanks

🙏

Ouuuuh, smart and elegant! Indeed, I didn't think it this way!

Thanks for the confirmation and the nice solution!