Hi, I’m trying to run a custom Directory Manager for entities of type Product. I’ve successfully added the custom entities, fields and the DM json file. However when running the DM I get the error DIRECTORY_FIELD failure - Field c_xxx must be a string type but is ← yes, it ends like this.
I think the issue here is that the field I’m asking to retrieve to base the directory structure off of is a multiselect field, instead of a plain input field.
I’ve tried adding a transform: { replaceOptionValuesWithDisplayNames: [ xxx ] } option inside the DM json file but it doesn’t seem to take effect.
Any workarounds or ideas on how to get past the error?
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For the time being, the Directory Manager can only handle string field types (and the sub-properties of the address field). Support for single-option select fields is not supported, which I assume you are using based on your inclusion of the Stream transform.
As a workaround, you could write the single-option select field to a separate text field (a platform function could be useful for this), and pass that to the Directory Manager configuration instead.
Support for other string-like fields is on our roadmap, hopefully slated for some time in the fall. I recommend posting this as an idea on our ideas board as well.
Best,
Luc
Hi @Luc_Yuki_Marrie thank you for your reply! I will post it to the Ideas board as I think it would be useful to add it as standard functionality.
As a workaround I had already added a standard input field and mapped it to the select field using the embedded fields syntax [[c_xxx]], but I will look into the platform function documentation, thanks for the suggestion!
Hi @Luc_Yuki_Marrie , I’m facing the exact same issue on a different project and this time I went ahead and created the plugin (platform function) as suggested.
I’m just not sure how to integrate the function into the DM configuration file, could you guide me please?