### What?
Adds support for excluding specific fields from the import-export plugin
using a custom field config.
### Why?
Some fields should not be included in exports or previews. This feature
allows users to flag those fields directly in the field config.
### How?
- Introduced a `plugin-import-export.disabled: true` custom field
property.
- Automatically collects and stores disabled field accessors in
`collection.admin.custom['plugin-import-export'].disabledFields`.
- Excludes these fields from the export field selector, preview table,
and final export output (CSV/JSON).
### What?
Ensure the export preview table includes all field keys as columns, even
if those fields are not populated in any of the returned documents.
### Why?
Previously, if none of the documents in the preview result had a value
for a given field, that column would be missing entirely from the
preview table.
### How?
- Introduced a `getFlattenedFieldKeys` utility that recursively extracts
all missing flattened field accessors from the collection’s config that
are undefined
- Updates the preview UI logic to build columns from all flattened keys,
not just the first document
### What
This PR updates the import-export plugin's `<Preview />` component to
render table columns and rows using the same logic as the CSV export.
Key changes:
- Adds a new `/api/preview-data` custom REST endpoint that:
- Accepts filters (`fields`, `where`, `sort`, `draft`, `limit`)
- Uses `getCustomFieldFunctions` and `flattenObject` to transform
documents
- Returns deeply flattened rows identical to the CSV export
- Refactors the <Preview /> component to:
- POST preview config to the new endpoint instead of querying the
collection directly
- Match column ordering and flattening logic with the `createExport`
function
- Ensures consistency across CSV downloads and in-admin previews
-Adds JSON preview
This ensures preview results now exactly match exported CSV content,
including support for custom field transformers and polymorphic fields.
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Co-authored-by: Dan Ribbens <dan.ribbens@gmail.com>
Converts all text and field labels into variables that can be
translated. Also generated the translations for them
So now the UI here is internationalised
I've also moved some of the generic labels into the core package since
those could be re-used elsewhere
### What?
The import-export preview UI component does not handle localized fields
and crash the UI when they are used. This fixes that issue.
### Why?
We were not properly handling the label translated object notation that
field.label can have.
### How?
Now we call `getTranslation` with the field label to handle language
keyed labels.
Fixes # https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/11668
Adds new plugin-import-export initial version.
Allows for direct download and creation of downloadable collection data
stored to a json or csv uses the access control of the user creating the
request to make the file.
config options:
```ts
/**
* Collections to include the Import/Export controls in
* Defaults to all collections
*/
collections?: string[]
/**
* Enable to force the export to run synchronously
*/
disableJobsQueue?: boolean
/**
* This function takes the default export collection configured in the plugin and allows you to override it by modifying and returning it
* @param collection
* @returns collection
*/
overrideExportCollection?: (collection: CollectionOverride) => CollectionOverride
// payload.config.ts:
plugins: [
importExportPlugin({
collections: ['pages', 'users'],
overrideExportCollection: (collection) => {
collection.admin.group = 'System'
collection.upload.staticDir = path.resolve(dirname, 'uploads')
return collection
},
disableJobsQueue: true,
}),
],
```
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Co-authored-by: Jessica Chowdhury <jessica@trbl.design>
Co-authored-by: Kendell Joseph <kendelljoseph@gmail.com>
