Ability to make field searchable

[OfficialCRUGG]

Most built-in Directus fields have a checkbox that lets you make the field searchable.

Flexible Editor is currently missing this and it would be great if this would be an option! I don't think the ability to deeply search content in relation blocks would be needed, so it would just be a search across all text-type elements joined together.

[OfficialCRUGG]

For anyone else who needs this asap, here's a rough workaround for now:

1. Create a "Textarea" field. Make this hidden but searchable. In my case, where the flexible editor field is called note, I call this notePlaintext.

2. Set up a Flow to turn the editor JSON into plaintext and put it into notePlaintext whenever an item is updated or created.

To turn the JSON into plaintext, I quickly put together this function:

(Not tested super well!)

function jsonToText(initialNode) {
  function walk(node) {
    if (!node) return "";

    if (node.type === "text") {
      return node.text ?? "";
    }

    const children = (node.content ?? []).map(walk).join("");

    switch (node.type) {
      case "paragraph":
      case "heading":
        return children + "\n";

      case "hardBreak":
        return "\n";

      case "listItem":
        return "- " + children + "\n";

      case "bulletList":
      case "orderedList":
        return children + "\n";

      default:
        return children;
    }
  }

  return walk(initialNode)
    .replace(/\n{2,}/g, "\n\n")
    .trim();
}