Is it possible to have a field in the User collection be required only for users with a certain role

[tawdry coral]

I want users with the "customer" role to be required to fill in a phone number... but it should be optional for users without the "customer" role.

Below is our current User collection

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[sour breach]

This should probably be achieveable with a field hook

https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/fields

I would try the ai help for this 🙂

[tawdry coral]

damn, I was hoping I could do without hooks. But I only need one hook even if I want to add it to multiple fields right?

Would be nice if we could do the same as we can with access:

access: {
  admin: ({ req: { user } }) => checkRole(["admin"], user),
}

[sour breach]

yeah, you could simplify it down to:

access: {
  admin: requiredForUser("admin")
}

by creating a field access function

but perhaps the hook is even more intuitive... because you can check for the value

and access also has influence on the api exposure of the field