---
title: li-string-list
description: "Multiselect"
---
## Supported Features

| Feature | Supported |
| ------- | :-------: |
| Document | ✔ |
| Media | ✔ |
| Include | ✔ |
| Document Creation Flow | ✔ |
| Push Message | ✔ |
| Usage Log | ✔ |
| Table Dashboard | ✔ |
| Display Filter | ✔ |
| Search Indexing | ✔ |
| System Metadata | ✗ |
| Planning System | ✗ |
| Webhook Conditions | ✗ |

## Description

Requires a `dataProvider` to work.

[Display Filters](/customising/advanced/editor-configuration/display-filter/llms.txt#metadata-filters) support Added in: [`release-2023-09`](/operations/releases/release-2023-09/)


## Default UI

Multiselect input

## Storage Format

```js
[<String>]

```

## Content Type Config

```js
{
  handle: 'myContentType',
  // ...
  metadata: [
    {
      handle: 'myHandle'
      type: 'li-string-list',
      config: {
        // common
        hideFromForm: false,                     // optional, default: false
        required: true,                          // optional, default: false
        requiredErrorMessage: 'Provide a value', // optional
        index: true,                             // optional, default: false. Added in release-2023-07
        // specific
        dataProvider: { // required
          // Option 1 - list of items
          type: 'labelValuePair',
          items: [
            {label: 'Item A', value: 'a'},
            {label: 'Item B', value: 'b', isDefault: true}, // isDefault sets the value if document opened the first time
            {label: 'Item C', value: 'c'}
          ]
          // Option 2 - DataSource
          dataSource: 'labelValuePairDataSource'
        }
      },
      ui: {
        label: 'foo', // optional, takes camelized name otherwise
        config: {
          readOnly: true, // optional, default: false
        }
      }
    }
    // ...
  ]
}
```