Fixes the issue where this returns all the documents:
```
{
name: 'post',
type: 'relationship',
relationTo: 'posts',
filterOptions: { id: { in: [] } }
}
```
The issue isn't with the Local API but with how we send the query to the
REST API through `qs.stringify`. `qs.stringify({ id: { in: [] } }`
becomes `""`, so the server ignores the original query. I don't think
it's possible to encode empty arrays with this library
https://github.com/sindresorhus/query-string/issues/231, so I just made
sanitization to `{ exists: false }` for this case.
### What?
Selected documents in a relationship field can be opened in a new tab.
### Why?
Related documents can be edited using the edit icon which opens the
document in a drawer. Sometimes users would like to open the document in
a new tab instead to e.g. modify the related document at a later point
in time. This currently requires users to find the related document via
the list view and open it there. There is no easy way to find and open a
related document.
### How?
Adds custom handling to the relationship edit button to support opening
it in a new tab via middle-click, Ctrl+click, or right-click → 'Open in
new tab'.
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Co-authored-by: Jacob Fletcher <jacobsfletch@gmail.com>
### What?
Improve performance of the relationship select options by reducing the
fetched documents to only necessary data.
### Why?
The relationship select only requires an ID and title. Fetching the
whole document instead leads to slow performance on collections with
large documents.
### How?
Add a select parameter to the query, the same way it is done in the
[WhereBuilder](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/ui/src/elements/WhereBuilder/Condition/Relationship/index.tsx#L105-L107)
already.
### What?
This fixes an issue raised by @maximseshuk in this PR #11553. Here is
the text of the original comment:
If the field has the property hasMany: true and you select one item, it
shows up in the select field, but any additional selected items won't be
visible in the select field, even though the data is actually there and
can be saved. After refreshing the page, they appear.
In addition I added a fix to an issue where the filterOptions weren't
being passed in to the useListDrawer hook properly in polymorphic
relationships
### How?
Instead of using the push method to update the value state, a new array
is created and directly set using useState. I think the issue was
because using push mutates the original array.
When server rendering custom components within form state, those
components receive a path that is correct at render time, but
potentially stale after manipulating array and blocks rows. This causes
the field to briefly render incorrect values while the form state
request is in flight.
The reason for this is that paths are passed as a prop statically into
those components. Then when we manipulate rows, form state is modified,
potentially changing field paths. The component's `path` prop, however,
hasn't changed. This means it temporarily points to the wrong field in
form state, rendering the data of another row until the server responds
with a freshly rendered component.
This is not an issue with default Payload fields as they are rendered on
the client and can be passed dynamic props.
This is only an issue within custom server components, including rich
text fields which are treated as custom components. Since they are
rendered on the server and passed to the client, props are inaccessible
after render.
The fix for this is to provide paths dynamically through context. This
way as we make changes to form state, there is a mechanism in which
server components can receive the updated path without waiting on its
props to update.
### What?
This PR adds the ability to use the ListDrawer component for selecting
related collections for the relationship field instead of the default
drop down interface. This exposes the advanced filtering options that
the list view provides and provides a good interface for searching for
the correct relationship when the workflows may be more complicated.
I've added an additional "selectionType" prop to the relationship field
admin config that defaults to "dropdown" for compatability with the
existing implementation but "drawer" can be passed in as well which
enables using the ListDrawer for selecting related components.
### Why?
Adding the ability to search through the list view enables advanced
workflows or handles edge cases when just using the useAsTitle may not
be informative enough to find the related record that the user wants.
For example, if we have a collection of oscars nominations and are
trying to relate the nomination to the person who recieved the
nomination there may be multiple actors with the same name (Michelle
Williams, for example:
[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931329/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931329/),
[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931332/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931332/)).
It would be hard to search through the current dropdown ui to choose the
correct person, but in the list view the user could use other fields to
identify the correct person such as an imdb id, description, or anything
else they have in the collection for that person. Other advanced
workflows could be if there are multiple versions of a record in a
collection and the user wants to select the most recent one or just
anything where the user needs to see more details about the record that
they are setting up the relationship to.
### How?
This implementation just re-uses the useListDrawer hook and the
ListDrawer component so the code changes are pretty minimal. The main
change is a new onListSelect handler that gets passed into the
ListDrawer and handles updating the value in the field when a record is
selected in the ListDrawer.
There were also a two things that I didn't implement as they would
require broader code changes 1) Bulk select from the ListDrawer when a
relationship is hasMany - when using bulkSelect in the list drawer the
relatedCollection doesn't get returned so this doesn't work for
polymorphic relationships. Updating this would involve changing the
useListDrawer hook 2) Hide values that are already selected from the
ListDrawer - potentially possible by modifying the filterOptions and
passing in an additional filter but honestly it may not be desired
behaviour to hide values from the ListDrawer as this could be confusing
for the user if they don't see records that they are expected to see
(maybe if anything make them unselectable and indicate that they are
disabled). Currently if an already selected value gets selected the
selected value gets replaced by the new value
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fee164da-4270-4612-9304-73ccf34ccf69
---------
Co-authored-by: Jacob Fletcher <jacobsfletch@gmail.com>
### What?
UI only issue: An array row with `required: false` and `minRows: x` was
displaying an error banner - this should only happen if one or more rows
are present.
The validation is not affected, the document still saved as expected,
but the error should not be inaccurately displayed.
### Why?
The logic for displaying the `minRow` validation error was `rows.length
> minRows` and it needs to be `rows.length > 1 && rows.length > minRows`
### How?
Updates the UI logic.
Fixes#12010
### What?
This PR relaxes the mimeType checks in the thumbnail and file cell
components to accommodate an `adminThumbnail` even if the file is a
non-image. This is useful when, for example, using an `adminThumbnail`
function to retrieve or generate thumbnails for files that are
non-images such as videos.
### Why?
To prioritize an admin thumbnail if/when available on file cells and
upload field thumbnails in both edit and list views.
### How?
By relaxing the mimeType checks in the `Thumbnail` component and instead
lifting that responsibility on the caller of this component. Some of
these checks were not needed as the best-fit helper utility function
will automatically select the thumbnailURL if available or revert to the
original url if no best-fit is found.
Demo of admin thumbnail being loaded on non-image while still selecting
best-fit size for images:
Significantly optimizes the component rendering strategy within the form
state endpoint by precisely rendering only the fields that require it.
This cuts down on server processing and network response sizes when
invoking form state requests **that manipulate array and block rows
which contain server components**, such as rich text fields, custom row
labels, etc. (results listed below).
Here's a breakdown of the issue:
Previously, when manipulating array and block fields, _all_ rows would
render any server components that might exist within them, including
rich text fields. This means that subsequent changes to these fields
would potentially _re-render_ those same components even if they don't
require it.
For example, if you have an array field with a rich text field within
it, adding the first row would cause the rich text field to render,
which is expected. However, when you add a second row, the rich text
field within the first row would render again unnecessarily along with
the new row.
This is especially noticeable for fields with many rows, where every
single row processes its server components and returns RSC data. And
this does not only affect nested rich text fields, but any custom
component defined on the field level, as these are handled in the same
way.
The reason this was necessary in the first place was to ensure that the
server components receive the proper data when they are rendered, such
as the row index and the row's data. Changing one of these rows could
cause the server component to receive the wrong data if it was not
freshly rendered.
While this is still a requirement that rows receive up-to-date props, it
is no longer necessary to render everything.
Here's a breakdown of the actual fix:
This change ensures that only the fields that are actually being
manipulated will be rendered, rather than all rows. The existing rows
will remain in memory on the client, while the newly rendered components
will return from the server. For example, if you add a new row to an
array field, only the new row will render its server components.
To do this, we send the path of the field that is being manipulated to
the server. The server can then use this path to determine for itself
which fields have already been rendered and which ones need required
rendering.
## Results
The following results were gathered by booting up the `form-state` test
suite and seeding 100 array rows, each containing a rich text field. To
invoke a form state request, we navigate to a document within the
"posts" collection, then add a new array row to the list. The result is
then saved to the file system for comparison.
| Test Suite | Collection | Number of Rows | Before | After | Percentage
Change |
|------|------|---------|--------|--------|--------|
| `form-state` | `posts` | 101 | 1.9MB / 266ms | 80KB / 70ms | ~96%
smaller / ~75% faster |
---------
Co-authored-by: James <james@trbl.design>
Co-authored-by: Alessio Gravili <alessio@gravili.de>
Continuation of #11867. When rendering custom fields nested within
arrays or blocks, such as the Lexical rich text editor which is treated
as a custom field, these fields will sometimes disappear when form state
requests are invoked sequentially. This is especially reproducible on
slow networks.
This is different from the previous PR in that this issue is caused by
adding _rows_ back-to-back, whereas the previous issue was caused when
adding a single row followed by a change to another field.
Here's a screen recording demonstrating the issue:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ecfa9ec-b747-49ed-8618-df282e64519d
The problem is that `requiresRender` is never sent in the form state
request for row 2. This is because the [task
queue](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/11579) processes tasks
within a single `useEffect`. This forces React to batch the results of
these tasks into a single rendering cycle. So if request 1 sets state
that request 2 relies on, request 2 will never use that state since
they'll execute within the same lifecycle.
Here's a play-by-play of the current behavior:
1. The "add row" event is dispatched
a. This sets `requiresRender: true` in form state
1. A form state request is sent with `requiresRender: true`
1. While that request is processing, another "add row" event is
dispatched
a. This sets `requiresRender: true` in form state
b. This adds a form state request into the queue
1. The initial form state request finishes
a. This sets `requiresRender: false` in form state
1. The next form state request that was queued up in 3b is sent with
`requiresRender: false`
a. THIS IS EXPECTED, BUT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE `true`!!
To fix this this, we need to ensure that the `requiresRender` property
is persisted into the second request instead of overridden. To do this,
we can add a new `serverPropsToIgnore` to form state which is read when
the processing results from the server. So if `requiresRender` exists in
`serverPropsToIgnore`, we do not merge it. This works because we
actually mutate form state in between requests. So request 2 can read
the results from request 1 without going through an additional rendering
cycle.
Here's a play-by-play of the fix:
1. The "add row" event is dispatched
a. This sets `requiresRender: true` in form state
b. This adds a task in the queue to mutate form state with
`requiresRender: true`
1. A form state request is sent with `requiresRender: true`
1. While that request is processing, another "add row" event is
dispatched
a. This sets `requiresRender: true` in form state AND
`serverPropsToIgnore: [ "requiresRender" ]`
c. This adds a form state request into the queue
1. The initial form state request finishes
a. This returns `requiresRender: false` from the form state endpoint BUT
IS IGNORED
1. The next form state request that was queued up in 3c is sent with
`requiresRender: true`
### What?
In the same vein as #11696, this PR optimizes how images are selected
for display in the document edit view. It ensures that only image files
are processed and selects the most appropriate size to minimize
unnecessary downloads and improve performance.
#### Previously:
- Non-image files were being processed unnecessarily, despite not
generating thumbnails.
- Images without a `thumbnailURL` defaulted to their original full size,
even when smaller, optimized versions were available.
#### Now:
- **Only images** are processed for thumbnails, avoiding redundant
requests for non-images.
- **The smallest available image within a target range** (`40px -
180px`) is prioritized for display.
- **If no images fit within this range**, the logic selects:
- The next smallest larger image (if available).
- The **original** image if it is smaller than the next available larger
size.
- The largest **smaller** image if no better fit exists.
### Why?
Prevents unnecessary downloads of non-image files, reduces bandwidth
usage by selecting more efficient image sizes and improves load times
and performance in the edit view.
### How?
- **Filters out non-image files** when determining which assets to
display.
- Uses the same algorithm as in #11696 but turns it into a reusable
function to be used in various areas around the codebase. Namely the
upload field hasOne and hasMany components.
Before (4.5mb transfer):
After (15.9kb transfer):
### What
The `crypto.randomUUID()` function was causing errors in non-secure
contexts (HTTP), as it is only available in secure contexts (HTTPS).
### How
Added a fallback to generate UUIDs using the `uuid` library when
`crypto.randomUUID()` is not available.
Fixes#11825
Previously, if you were querying a collection that has a join field with
`draft: true`, and the join field's collection also has
`versions.drafts: true` our db adapter would still query the original
SQL table / mongodb collection instead of the versions one which isn't
quite right since we respect `draft: true` when populating relationships
Passes the `i18n` arg through field label and description functions.
This is to avoid using custom components when simply needing to
translate a `StaticLabel` object, such as collection labels.
Here's an example:
```ts
{
labels: {
singular: {
en: 'My Collection'
}
},
fields: [
// ...
{
type: 'collapsible',
label: ({ i18n }) => `Translate this: ${getTranslation(collectionConfig.labels.singular, i18n)}`
// ...
}
]
}
```
### What?
When a user lands on an edit page that has a relationship to an `Upload`
field (which is `HasMany`). The UI will make a request with `limit=0` to
the backend providing there is no IDs populated already.
When a media collection is large, it will try and load all media items
into memory which causes OOM crashes.
### Why?
Fixes: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/11655 causing OOM
issues.
### How?
Adding guard check on the `populate` to ensure that it doesn't make a
request if not needed.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f195025f-3e31-423e-b13e-6faf8db40129
Fixes#10019. When bulk editing subfields, such as a field within a
group, changes are not persisted to the database. Not only this, but
nested fields with the same name as another selected field are
controlled by the same input. E.g. typing into one fields changes the
value of both.
The root problem is that field paths are incorrect.
When opening the bulk edit drawer, fields are flattened into options for
the field selector. This is so that fields in a tab, for example, aren't
hidden behind their tab when bulk editing. The problem is that
`RenderFields` is not set up to receive pre-determined field paths. It
attempts to build up its own field paths, but are never correct because
`getFieldPaths` receives the wrong arguments.
The fix is to just render the top-level fields directly, bypassing
`RenderFields` altogether.
Fields with subfields will still recurse through this function, but at
the top-level, fields can be sent directly to `RenderField` (singular)
since their paths have already been already formatted in the flattening
step.
If the `useAsTitle` property is defined referencing a richtext field,
the admin panel throws errors in several places.
I noticed this in the email builder plugin, where we're making the
subject field (which is the title) a single-paragraph richtext field
instead of a text field for technical reasons.
In this PR, for the lexical richtext case, I'm converting the first
child of the RootNode (usually a paragraph or heading) to plain text.
Additionally, I am verifying that if the resulting title is not of type
string, fallback to "untitled" so that this does not happen again in the
future (perhaps with slate, or with other fields).
The form component's `initializing` and `processing` states do not
disable fields that are rendered outside of `DocumentFields`. Fields
currently rely on the `readOnly` prop provided by `DocumentFields` and
do not subscribe to these states for themselves. This means that fields
that are rendered outright, such as within the bulk edit drawer, they do
not receive a `readOnly` prop and are therefore never disabled.
The fix is add a `disabled` property to the `useField` hook. This
subscribes to the `initializing` and `processing` states in the same way
as `DocumentFields`, however, now each field can determine its own
disabled state instead of relying solely on the `readOnly` prop. Adding
this new prop has no overhead as `processing` and `initializing` is
already being subscribed to within `useField`.
This PR updates the field `validate` function property to include a new
`path` argument.
The `path` arg provides the schema path of the field, including array
indices where applicable.
#### Changes:
- Added `path: (number | string)[]` in the ValidateOptions type.
### What?
We have the option to set `displayPreview: true || false` on upload
collections / upload fields - with the **field** option taking
precedence.
Currently, `displayPreview` is only affecting the list view for the
**_related_** collection.
i.e. if you go to a collection that has an upload field - the preview
will be hidden/shown correctly according to the `displayPreview` option.
<img width="620" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-03 at 12 38 18 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c11c2a84-0f64-4a08-940e-8c3f9096484b"
/>
However, when you go directly to the upload collection and look at the
list view - the preview is always shown, not affected by the
`displayPreview` option.
<img width="446" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-03 at 12 39 24 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f5e1267a-d98a-4c8c-8d54-93dea6cd2e31"
/>
Also, we have previews within the file field itself - also not being
affected by the `displayPreview` option.
<img width="528" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-03 at 12 40 06 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3dd04c9a-3d9f-4823-90f8-b538f3d420f9"
/>
All the upload related previews (excluding preview sizes and upload
editing options) should be affected by the `displayPreview` option.
### How?
Checks for `collection.displayPreview` and `field.displayPreview` in all
places where previews are displayed.
Closes#11404
Two small separate issues here (1) and (2):
### What?
1. Excess margin is displayed when a row is hidden due to
`admin.condition`
2. The `admin.style` props is never passed to the `row` field
### Why?
1. Unlike other fields, the `row` field still gets rendered when
`admin.condition` returns false - this is because the logic gets passed
down to the fields within the row
2. `style` was never being threaded to the `row` field wrapper
### How?
1. Hides the row using css to `display: none` when no children are
present
2. Passes `admin.styles` to the `row` wrapper
Fixes#11477
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/11568
### What? Out of sync errors states
- Collaspibles & Tabs were not reporting accurate child error counts
- Arrays could get into a state where they would not update their error
states
- Slight issue with toasts
### Tabs & Collapsibles
The logic for determining matching field paths was not functioning as
intended. Fields were attempting to match with paths such as `_index-0`
which will not work.
### Arrays
The form state was not updating when the server sent back errorPaths.
This PR adds `errorPaths` to `serverPropsToAccept`.
### Toasts
Some toasts could report errors in the form of `my > > error`. This
ensures they will be `my > error`
### Misc
Removes 2 files that were not in use:
- `getFieldStateFromPaths.ts`
- `getNestedFieldState.ts`
Adds a new `admin.disableBlockName` property that allows you to disable
the blockName field entirely in the admin view. It defaults to false for
backwards compatibility.
### What?
Unable to update json fields externally. For example, calling `setValue`
on a json field would not be reflected in the admin panel UI.
### Why?
JSON fields use the monaco editor to manage state internally, so
programmatically updating the value in state does not change the
internal value.
### How?
Set a ref when the user updates the value and then unset the ref after
the change is complete.
Inside the hook that watches `value`, if the value changed and the
change came from the system (i.e. a programmatic change) refresh the
editor by adjusting its key prop. If the change was made by the user,
there is no need to refresh the editor.
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/10819
When rendering a list drawer, you can pass a custom `onSelect` callback
to execute when the user clicks on the linked cell within the table. The
underlying handler, however, only passes the `docID` and
`collectionSlug` args through the callback, rather than the document
itself. This makes it impossible to perform side-effects that require
the data of the row that was selected.
Instances of this callback were also largely untyped.
Needed for #11330.
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### What?
This PR introduces support for the `admin.group` property in block
configs. This property enables blocks to be grouped under a common,
potentially localized, label in the block drawer component. This makes
it easier to sort through large collections of blocks. Previously, all
blocks would be in one common layout.
This PR also encompasses documentation changes and e2e tests to check
for the rendering of group labels.
### Why?
To make it easier to organize many blocks in block fields.
### How?
By introducing a new `admin.group` property in block configs and
assembling them in the blocks drawer component.
Before:
After:
Demo:
[Editing---Block-Field---Payload-groups-demo.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2b351dc1-0d14-4a5b-ae71-bcd31fbb23df)
Addresses #5609
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/10962
This fix addresses fields with timezones enabled specifically for not
time pickers. If all you want to do is pick a date such as 14th Feb, it
would store the incorrect version and display a date in the future for
people in the Pacific.
This is because Auckland is +12 offset, but +13 with Daylight Savings
Time. In our date picker we try to normalise date pickers with no time
to 12pm and so half the year we ended up pushing dates visually to the
next day for people in the pacific only. Other regions were not affected
by this because their offset would be less than 12.
This PR fixes this by ensuring that our dates are always normalised to
selected timezone's 12pm date to UTC.
There's also additional tests for these two fields from 3 main locations
to cover a wider range of possible timezones.
This feature allows you to specify `collection` for the join field as
array.
This can be useful for example to describe relationship linking like
this:
```ts
{
slug: 'folders',
fields: [
{
type: 'join',
on: 'folder',
collection: ['files', 'documents', 'folders'],
name: 'children',
},
{
type: 'relationship',
relationTo: 'folders',
name: 'folder',
},
],
},
{
slug: 'files',
upload: true,
fields: [
{
type: 'relationship',
relationTo: 'folders',
name: 'folder',
},
],
},
{
slug: 'documents',
fields: [
{
type: 'relationship',
relationTo: 'folders',
name: 'folder',
},
],
},
```
Documents and files can be placed to folders and folders themselves can
be nested to other folders (root folders just have `folder` as `null`).
Output type of `Folder`:
```ts
export interface Folder {
id: string;
children?: {
docs?:
| (
| {
relationTo?: 'files';
value: string | File;
}
| {
relationTo?: 'documents';
value: string | Document;
}
| {
relationTo?: 'folders';
value: string | Folder;
}
)[]
| null;
hasNextPage?: boolean | null;
} | null;
folder?: (string | null) | Folder;
updatedAt: string;
createdAt: string;
}
```
While you could instead have many join fields (for example
`childrenFolders`, `childrenFiles`) etc - this doesn't allow you to
sort/filter and paginate things across many collections, which isn't
trivial. With SQL we use `UNION ALL` query to achieve that.
---------
Co-authored-by: Dan Ribbens <dan.ribbens@gmail.com>
When reusing the SelectInput component from the UI package, if you set
value to `''` it will continue to display the previously selected value
instead of clearing out the field as expected.
The ReactSelect component doesn't behave in this way and instead will
clear out the field.
This fix addresses this difference by resetting `valueToRender` inside
the SelectInput to null.
### What?
Two new configuration properties added for upload enabled collections.
- *hideFileInputOnCreate* - Set to `true` to prevent the admin UI from
showing file inputs during document creation, useful for programmatic
file generation.
- *hideRemoveFile* - Set to `true` to prevent the admin UI having a way
to remove an existing file while editing.
### Why?
When using file uploads that get created programmatically in
`beforeOperation` hooks or files created using `jobs`, or when
`filesRequiredOnCreate` is false, you may want to use these new flags to
prevent users from interacting with these controls.
### How?
The new properties only impact the admin UI components to dial in the UX
for various use cases.
Screenshot showing that the upload controls are not available on create:
Screenshot showing hideRemoveFile has removed the ability to remove the
existing file:
Prerequisite for https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/10795
### What?
This PR fixes an issue where a deleted relationship entry would lead to
a runtime error if the user clicked on the edit button in ui due to not
having a `doc` available in `handleServerFunction`.
### Why?
To prevent runtime errors during expected usage.
### How?
By hiding the edit button in entries that have been deleted. This is
done for entries where the user does not have read access already.
Fixes#11004
Before:
[Editing---Post-userdelete--before--Payload.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/33180eba-9be3-418f-92d2-3bad93e3dfae)
After:
[Editing---Post-userdelete--after--Payload.webm](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba1a736b-3422-4fe0-93ae-7e8e6496d1bd)
### What?
Assuming you have a hook in your collection that is looking for certain
conditions to be met related to the join field. The way you would
prevent it is to throw a `new ValidationError()` with errors containing
the path of the field. Previously, the error message for the field would
not show in the admin UI at all.
### Why?
Users need to be able to see any custom error messages for joins field
in the UI so they can address the issue.
### How?
Adds an error class and display the FieldError in the Join field in the
UI component.
If you have multiple blocks that are used in multiple places, this can quickly blow up the size of your Payload Config. This will incur a performance hit, as more data is
1. sent to the client (=> bloated `ClientConfig` and large initial html) and
2. processed on the server (permissions are calculated every single time you navigate to a page - this iterates through all blocks you have defined, even if they're duplicative)
This can be optimized by defining your block **once** in your Payload Config, and just referencing the block slug whenever it's used, instead of passing the entire block config. To do this, the block can be defined in the `blocks` array of the Payload Config. The slug can then be passed to the `blockReferences` array in the Blocks Field - the `blocks` array has to be empty for compatibility reasons.
```ts
import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
import { lexicalEditor, BlocksFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
// Payload Config
const config = buildConfig({
// Define the block once
blocks: [
{
slug: 'TextBlock',
fields: [
{
name: 'text',
type: 'text',
},
],
},
],
collections: [
{
slug: 'collection1',
fields: [
{
name: 'content',
type: 'blocks',
// Reference the block by slug
blockReferences: ['TextBlock'],
blocks: [], // Required to be empty, for compatibility reasons
},
],
},
{
slug: 'collection2',
fields: [
{
name: 'editor',
type: 'richText',
editor: lexicalEditor({
BlocksFeature({
// Same reference can be reused anywhere, even in the lexical editor, without incurred performance hit
blocks: ['TextBlock'],
})
})
},
],
},
],
})
```
## v4.0 Plans
In 4.0, we will remove the `blockReferences` property, and allow string block references to be passed directly to the blocks `property`. Essentially, we'd remove the `blocks` property and rename `blockReferences` to `blocks`.
The reason we opted to a new property in this PR is to avoid breaking changes. Allowing strings to be passed to the `blocks` property will prevent plugins that iterate through fields / blocks from compiling.
## PR Changes
- Testing: This PR introduces a plugin that automatically converts blocks to block references. This is done in the fields__blocks test suite, to run our existing test suite using block references.
- Block References support: Most changes are similar. Everywhere we iterate through blocks, we have to now do the following:
1. Check if `field.blockReferences` is provided. If so, only iterate through that.
2. Check if the block is an object (= actual block), or string
3. If it's a string, pull the actual block from the Payload Config or from `payload.blocks`.
The exception is config sanitization and block type generations. This PR optimizes them so that each block is only handled once, instead of every time the block is referenced.
## Benchmarks
60 Block fields, each block field having the same 600 Blocks.
### Before:
**Initial HTML:** 195 kB
**Generated types:** takes 11 minutes, 461,209 lines
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/11d49a4e-5414-4579-8050-e6346e552f56
### After:
**Initial HTML:** 73.6 kB
**Generated types:** takes 2 seconds, 35,810 lines
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3eab1a99-6c29-489d-add5-698df67780a3
### After Permissions Optimization (follow-up PR)
Initial HTML: 73.6 kB
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a909202e-45a8-4bf6-9a38-8c85813f1312
## Future Plans
1. This PR does not yet deduplicate block references during permissions calculation. We'll optimize that in a separate PR, as this one is already large enough
2. The same optimization can be done to deduplicate fields. One common use-case would be link field groups that may be referenced in multiple entities, outside of blocks. We might explore adding a new `fieldReferences` property, that allows you to reference those same `config.blocks`.
### What?
This PR displays file size in upload cards for all upload mimetypes. The
current behavior hides this metric from the user if the file mimetype
does not start with `image`.
### Why?
Showing end-users and editors a file size is universally useful - not
only for images, but for all types of files that can be uploaded via the
upload field.
### How?
By making the predicate that adds this metric less restrictive. Instead
of checking if the mimetype is image-like, it checks if the file size is
truthy.
Before:
After:
Adds support for timezone selection on date fields.
### Summary
New `admin.timezones` config:
```ts
{
// ...
admin: {
// ...
timezones: {
supportedTimezones: ({ defaultTimezones }) => [
...defaultTimezones,
{ label: '(GMT-6) Monterrey, Nuevo Leon', value: 'America/Monterrey' },
],
defaultTimezone: 'America/Monterrey',
},
}
}
```
New `timezone` property on date fields:
```ts
{
type: 'date',
name: 'date',
timezone: true,
}
```
### Configuration
All date fields now accept `timezone: true` to enable this feature,
which will inject a new field into the configuration using the date
field's name to construct the name for the timezone column. So
`publishingDate` will have `publishingDate_tz` as an accompanying
column. This new field is inserted during config sanitisation.
Dates continue to be stored in UTC, this will help maintain dates
without needing a migration and it makes it easier for data to be
manipulated as needed. Mongodb also has a restriction around storing
dates only as UTC.
All timezones are stored by their IANA names so it's compatible with
browser APIs. There is a newly generated type for `SupportedTimezones`
which is reused across fields.
We handle timezone calculations via a new package `@date-fns/tz` which
we will be using in the future for handling timezone aware scheduled
publishing/unpublishing and more.
### UI
Dark mode
Light mode
Fixes https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/10940
This PR does the following:
- adds a `useDocumentForm` hook to access the document Form. Useful if
you are within a sub-Form
- ensure the `data` property passed to field conditions, read access
control, validation and filterOptions is always the top-level document
data. Previously, for fields within lexical blocks/links/upload, this
incorrectly was the lexical block-level data.
- adds a `blockData` property to hooks, field conditions,
read/update/create field access control, validation and filterOptions
for all fields. This allows you to access the data of the nearest parent
block, which is especially useful for lexical sub-fields. Users that
were previously depending on the incorrect behavior of the `data`
property in order to access the data of the lexical block can now switch
to the new `blockData` property
The `useIgnoredEffect` hook is useful in firing an effect only when a _subset_ of dependencies change, despite subscribing to many dependencies. But the previous implementation of `useIgnoredEffect` had a few problems:
- The effect did not receive the updated values of `ignoredDeps` - thus, `useIgnoredEffect` pretty much worked the same way as using `useEffect` and omitting said dependencies from the dependency array. This caused the `ignoredDeps` values to be stale.
- It compared objects by value instead of reference, which is slower and behaves differently than `useEffect` itself.
- Edge cases where the effect does not run even though the dependencies have changed. E.g. if an `ignoredDep` has value `null` and a `dep` changes its value from _something_ to `null`, the effect incorrectly does **not** run, as the current logic detects that said value is part of `ignoredDeps` => no `dep` actually changed.
This PR replaces the `useIgnoredEffect` hook with a new pattern which to combine `useEffect` with a new `useEffectEvent` hook as described here: https://react.dev/learn/separating-events-from-effects#extracting-non-reactive-logic-out-of-effects. While this is not available in React 19 stable, there is a polyfill available that's already used in several big projects (e.g. react-spectrum and bluesky).
### What?
This updates the UX of `TextFields` with `hasMany: true` by:
- Removing the dropdown menu and its indicator
- Removing the ClearIndicator
- Making text items directly editable
### Why?
- The dropdown didn’t enhance usability.
- The ClearIndicator removed all values at once with no way to undo,
risking accidental data loss. Backspace still allows quick and
intentional clearing.
- Previously, text items could only be removed and re-added, but not
edited inline. Allowing inline editing improves the editing experience.
### How?
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/02e8cc26-7faf-4444-baa1-39ce2b4547fa
