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How to set Forma 36 selectfield to multiselect?

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#1

Hi

New to contentful and trying to build an extension UI extension and make use of the forma 36 components. I’m creating a select list that grabs data from an external DAM and needs to be able to have multiple selects for tagging purposes. But I don’t seem to be able to find anything on how you set this on the SelectField component. Is it possible and if so how?

Many thanks

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#2

@marklett As far as I know we do not have a multiselect component available currently. However, you could look into using the Autocomplete component for selection and display the selected tags as Pills. Of course, any other third-party React component will also work.

#3

Hi @fabians, I have been looking into the Autocomplete component as well but it does not seem to be exporting from the package v3.63.x Is the component not yet ready to be used?

#4

@ianh Autocomplete is still part of our alpha components, but it can certainly be used by importing it like this:

import { Autocomplete } from '@contentful/forma-36-react-components/dist/alpha';
#5

@fabians Great! Thank you very much for pointing that out.

#6

Are there any plans to have a separate component for multi select dropdown?