Directus Cloud Access Policy - Why are create action validation filters so limited?

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When I open the read action in access policies, when I go to add a filter the dropdowns are mutli-level, I can filter very deeply.

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However, when I open the create action tab in access policies, on the same collection, the filters are very limited and I can’t filter beyond the top level item in the dropdown?

Is this intentional? It kind of screws up my flow, since for create actions I cannot limit users in the way I want (and achieved on all other actions, read, update, delete etc).

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Hi @Liam_Mclaughlin, thanks for your question!

This is due to the fact that the read and create permissions are fundamentally different.

With the read permission, you can configure an item filter to determine which items can be read.

Meanwhile, with the create permission, you’re configuring a validation rule. This looks only at the item’s fields and does not support nested fields.

You can find out on our documentation.

Hope this is helpful!