I often have that as a website and its content grows I need to change what used to be a plain text field into a rich text field. Or a numbers field into a plain text one.
Now the only way to do this is very labor-intensive... create the new rich text field, copy-paste all the old content from the plain text field into the new rich text field and then go into the pages that have that collection in it and connect it to the new rich text field.
A simple option in the Collection to alter the field type would be such a time saver.
Marcel Deelen
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This would be a great
100% needed
This is an insanely bothersome thing to have to deal with. Also wish this had a quick solution.
YES! Little things like this would be so helpful.
Yeah this would be a great feature
I just ran into a need for this. Being able to convert a plain-text field type to rich field would be very helpful :)
I really didn't want to copy/paste data from my old field to a new field, so I used Parabola as a workaround.
Essentially, here are the steps:
Create new field in collection.
Create Parabola flow
In Parabola flow:
Pull in collection and all its fields
Add a "Send to Webflow" step
Set up that step to overwrite the new field (which would be blank) with the old field's data.
Possible in about 5-15 minutes if you're familiar with Parabola.
I wrote up my use case as an example, here.
Hope that helps someone.
But still, allowing field changes within a collection would make things much simpler!
I've come up against this with Text Fields. Requirements change and it would be nice to convert it to a Rich Text Field.
I BEG YOU
Please do this
Literally dying for this.
Yes, this feature is much needed. Please bump.
bump
Yes, this would be a really useful addition
Need.
This is much needed. In my case, members are linking to their personal websites but inevitably don't insert a valid URL. When Memberstack goes to update their corresponding CMS item, Zapier returns an invalid URL error message. We should either be able to change the type of a CMS field or URL validation in forms should be an option alongside email, phone, etc.
need
Argh. Yes, this is definitely needed. Torn between re-importing & relinking everything to fix, or replacing all plain text elements with rich text. Neither ideal. Ability to change after the fact would make a huge difference.
NEED :)
Need This!!!