Is it possible to save the term slug as the related join field?

[smokeyfro]

Hi Dimitrov (or is it Adrian?),

I'm trying to import 200 records from a google sheet, but the tags fields I'm trying to import is saved as a comma separated list of slugs, where as the tags field export output is an array of related tag id's. Is there anyway to use the slug instead of the id?

TIA
Chris

[dimitrov-adrian]

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately no, because the import UI in Directus do the data processing in API level and do not involve any UI logic, and as the UI is just an app and the m2m-interface is just an extension to this app it only enhance the UI.

Anyway, as a dirty solution would be if your tags collection have as ID (primary key) the slug. Then you could easily import the tags without duplicates (exported from your spreadsheet too). Then as having already tags, importing the records will be straight forward, just need to alter the csv file to ensure the list is "['tag1','tag2']" and not "tag1,tag2"