A hint, not a question
Hi, just thought I'd share this hear as it took me a while to find the answer. If you need to populate a filament field from outside the alpine/livewire code (ie, in vanilla JS), do the following:
It's the event that's key, as that seems to update the actual alpine model, which then gets saved to the DB
It's the event that's key, as that seems to update the actual alpine model, which then gets saved to the DB