Matt Hegarty

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This is a tricky issue since import_export is built around working with a single dataset. Others have worked around this by using JSON in certain fields as a mechanism for...

Thanks for raising. > Is that behavior intentional ? Yes, in v3 the widget `render()` method returned a mixture of strings and native types for various widgets. This caused issues...

Thanks for looking into this. It looks like we might have some gaps which need address.

Note that some of the issues regarding export of native types have been addressed in #1939

> fields that are part of a foreign key widget do not get string coercion by default. There's no easy way around this at present, the best way to format...

Thanks for raising this. There is some documentation on this [here][1] but it looks like we missed documentation for setting values directly on the admin. I'll get that added in....

Thanks - this would be a great addition to the forthcoming 4.2 release. Leave it with me to have a think about your proposal and I'll let you know.

I looked into it and I think that your approach will work. Users might have set a `coerce_to_string` value themselves on a custom widget, so somehow we'd have to make...

Hi - is this something you are going to work on or shall I allocate to someone else? thanks

Hi, no problem at all, happy for you to pick this up when you can. Thanks for contributing!