I see a new field type called Object in the Collections. There is no documentation for this field. What can we use this field for?
I’ve been using it to put data objects in. For example, I have a site with a data collection of hotel properties/rooms for rent. When someone makes a reservation in the reservation collection I record the customer’s information and then I also put a copy of the associated property collection’s record in the Object field. I use this as an audit in case I need to review a reservation and understand what the settings of the properties collection were at the time they made the reservation. I like to use it when I need to simply store a lot of data, but creating individual columns for the fields isn’t necessary.
I don’t know of an element you can connect this to on the UI, but you can extract it and use it in code just as you would an object passed back from a function.
Another good use for it I’ve found is storing a copy of a payment object returned when someone makes a payment.
