I’m attempting to do some planning for a config I would like to create. Still pretty new to HA but I understand coding.
I see the input_text is basically a storage mechanism. It states it can accept map values.
Looking through the docs and posts I have not seen how to create these maps.
Can it be name value pairs like:
[label1:user1]
[labe2:user2]
If so do you use templates to loop over the collection to retrieve values?
Can you update a single item in the collection?
Where did you see it can store map values? Text is text so I suppose you could save longitude or latitude but anything more complex I’m not sure how it would do that. I guess you could save it all as a rext string and parse it out later but I don’t know of any higher level organization to the input_text other than passwords.
Not map like google maps, like map values.
So is that collection of items or how does that work? Single items only? I want to store multiple text items in one input_text if possible.
input_text
(map)(Required)
Alias for the input. Multiple entries are allowed.
The input_text creates a single string, you can determine the length. That’s about it. 
Oh the map is referring to the fact the the item created must be identified as an input_text. It’s not a map function or anything else.
No it states it can accept a map of values (notice there are no ‘-’),
This is a list:
The object stored inside an input text will always be a string.