Seperate values for checkboxes

Hi there,

I want to provide the users to select their locations using a custom field checkbox. But when they select multiple locations the values are not saved seperately but in 1 value, seperated with a ” | “.

This makes it not searchable, is there a way to make each “checked” location saved seperately?

Thanks

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