strapi - fetch data to enumeration field and select multiple values

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I need to add a multiple select field (as a component or many to many relation) to the collection type. But I want to fetch data from an external API and show it in the dropdown. can I know how to achieve such kind of implementation?

because strapi won't allow fetching data to a collection type field from external API

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38305154/why-enum-does-not-store-multiple-values-in-mysql — Kalnode, Mar 20 '21 at 15:23

Onyejiaku Theodore Kelechukwu · Answer 1 · 2022-10-14T17:31:13.493

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Strapi as at the time of answering this question does not allow multiple selections for an enumeration field.

The possible way I would recommend is creating the Content-type field as a JSON. Then in your backend controller, you do the checking before validating the data.

edited Oct 14 '22 at 17:31

answered Oct 14 '22 at 17:24

Onyejiaku Theodore Kelechukwu

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 17 '23 at 12:28

For Strapi version 4.4.0 and above there is a custom filed plugin that gives you the ability to have a multiple select field. Here is the link --> https://market.strapi.io/plugins/strapi-plugin-multi-select

As for the functionality of fetching data from an external API, here are some ideas that may work.

create a plugin to work with the multi select input plugin, or0
extend the plugin's functionality --> https://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/plugins-extension, or
implement the custom functionality directly in Strapi's src directory

Hope this helps...

strapi - fetch data to enumeration field and select multiple values

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