Document how to customize Field::Select option labels #2225
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Customizing select dropdowns helps keep the UI friendly without having to store lengthy values in a database column.
After looking through the
customizing_dashboard
docs I did not find a reference on how to do this. These resources helped me figure out how the select field's_form
view handled option labels:These are before/after screenshots of this PR:
Documenting support for this would imply supporting
[[value, label]]
as an input for:collection
inField::Select.with_options
. If this is a concern I can write some tests to ensure this is accounted for in future releases.