adding child when adding parent

MattRvt

last year

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{
    "name": "parent",
    "child":{
        "name": "child"
    }
}

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last year

  Hey @MattRvt — right now, this is not possible. It could be a a future feature that we build, but it'll take some new functionality to achieve. The way we'd do this currently is to first create the nested document, then pass the newly created document's ID to your parent doc.

  So:

  const parentDocData = {
      "name": "parent",
      "child": "6a3434543qw3derra" // ID of newly created child doc
  }

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  MattRvt

  last year

  Thank you for your reply. This feature would be awesome.

  The same way, being able to create child through the UI from the parent page as it is done with array would be a great feature.

  Again, many thanks for your work, your reply and the great documentation 🥳

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last year

  You got it!

  Actually we are definitely going to allow creating a child through the UI from the parent page. That's on the radar. Stay tuned!