Closes#12785.
Although your live preview URL can be dynamic based on document data, it
is never recalculated after initial mount. This means if your URL is
dependent of document data that was just changed, such as a "slug"
field, the URL of the iframe does not reflect that change as expected
until the window is refreshed or you navigate back.
This also means that server-side live preview will crash when your
front-end attempts to query using a slug that no longer exists. Here's
the general flow: slug changes, autosave runs, iframe refreshes (url has
old slug), 404.
Now, we execute your live preview function on submit within form state,
and the window responds to the new URL as expected, refreshing itself
without losing its connection.
Here's the result:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7dd3b147-ab6c-4103-8b2f-14d6bc889625
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Fixes#12975.
When editing autosave-enabled documents through the join field, the
document drawer closes unexpectedly on every autosave interval, making
it nearly impossible to use.
This is because as of #12842, the underlying relationship table
re-renders on every autosave event, remounting the drawer each time. The
fix is to lift the drawer out of table's rendering tree and into the
join field itself. This way all rows share the same drawer, whose
rendering lifecycle has been completely decoupled from the table's
state.
Note: this is very similar to how relationship fields achieve similar
functionality.
This PR also adds jsdocs to the `useDocumentDrawer` hook and strengthens
its types.
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### What?
This PR introduces complete trash (soft-delete) support. When a
collection is configured with `trash: true`, documents can now be
soft-deleted and restored via both the API and the admin panel.
```
import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
const Posts: CollectionConfig = {
slug: 'posts',
trash: true, // <-- New collection config prop @default false
fields: [
{
name: 'title',
type: 'text',
},
// other fields...
],
}
```
### Why
Soft deletes allow developers and admins to safely remove documents
without losing data immediately. This enables workflows like reversible
deletions, trash views, and auditing—while preserving compatibility with
drafts, autosave, and version history.
### How?
#### Backend
- Adds new `trash: true` config option to collections.
- When enabled:
- A `deletedAt` timestamp is conditionally injected into the schema.
- Soft deletion is performed by setting `deletedAt` instead of removing
the document from the database.
- Extends all relevant API operations (`find`, `findByID`, `update`,
`delete`, `versions`, etc.) to support a new `trash` param:
- `trash: false` → excludes trashed documents (default)
- `trash: true` → includes both trashed and non-trashed documents
- To query **only trashed** documents: use `trash: true` with a `where`
clause like `{ deletedAt: { exists: true } }`
- Enforces delete access control before allowing a soft delete via
update or updateByID.
- Disables version restoring on trashed documents (must be restored
first).
#### Admin Panel
- Adds a dedicated **Trash view**: `/collections/:collectionSlug/trash`
- Default delete action now soft-deletes documents when `trash: true` is
set.
- **Delete confirmation modal** includes a checkbox to permanently
delete instead.
- Trashed documents:
- Displays UI banner for better clarity of trashed document edit view vs
non-trashed document edit view
- Render in a read-only edit view
- Still allow access to **Preview**, **API**, and **Versions** tabs
- Updated Status component:
- Displays “Previously published” or “Previously a draft” for trashed
documents.
- Disables status-changing actions when documents are in trash.
- Adds new **Restore** bulk action to clear the `deletedAt` timestamp.
- New `Restore` and `Permanently Delete` buttons for
single-trashed-document restore and permanent deletion.
- **Restore confirmation modal** includes a checkbox to restore as
`published`, defaults to `draft`.
- Adds **Empty Trash** and **Delete permanently** bulk actions.
#### Notes
- This feature is completely opt-in. Collections without trash: true
behave exactly as before.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/00b83f8a-0442-441e-a89e-d5dc1f49dd37
Mounts live preview to `../:id` instead `../:id/preview`.
This is a huge win for both UX and a maintainability standpoint.
Here are just a few of those wins:
1. If you edit a document, _then_ decide you want to preview those
changes, you are currently presented with the `LeaveWithoutSaving` modal
and are forced to either save your edits or clear them. This is because
you are being navigated to an entirely new page with it's own form
context. Instead, you should be able to freely navigate back and forth
between the two.
2. If you are an editor who most often uses Live Preview, or you are
editing a collection that typically requires it, you likely want it to
automatically enter live preview mode when you open a document.
Currently, the user has to navigate to the document _first_, then use
the live preview tab. Instead, you should be able to set a preference
and avoid this extra step.
3. Since the inception of Live Preview, we've been maintaining largely
the same code across the default edit view and the live preview view,
which often became out of sync and inconsistent—but they're essentially
doing the same thing. While we could abstract a lot of this out, it is
no longer necessary if the two views are combined into one.
This change does also include some small modifications to UI. The "Live
Preview" tab no longer exists, and instead has been replaced with a
button placed next to the document controls (subject to change).
Before:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/48518b02-87ba-4750-ba7b-b21b5c75240a
After:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a8ec8657-a6d6-4ee1-b9a7-3c1173bcfa96
Removes all unnecessary `page.waitForURL` methods within e2e tests.
These are unneeded when following a `page.goto` call because the
subsequent page load is already being awaited.
It is only a requirement when:
- Clicking a link and expecting navigation
- Expecting a redirect after a route change
- Waiting for a change in search params
Live preview e2e tests had no CSS when tested against prod.
For all our other tests, we have a separate test/app directory that
imports CSS. Otherwise, the root-level /app directory is used.
For live-preview, we currently always run against test/live-preview/app,
that has no CSS import.
This PR adds a new test/live-preview/prod/app directory that imports CSS
and is used when we run tests against prod.
In order for this to work, I had to make import map generation smarter
Currently, Payload renders all custom components on initial compile of
the admin panel. This is problematic for two key reasons:
1. Custom components do not receive contextual data, i.e. fields do not
receive their field data, edit views do not receive their document data,
etc.
2. Components are unnecessarily rendered before they are used
This was initially required to support React Server Components within
the Payload Admin Panel for two key reasons:
1. Fields can be dynamically rendered within arrays, blocks, etc.
2. Documents can be recursively rendered within a "drawer" UI, i.e.
relationship fields
3. Payload supports server/client component composition
In order to achieve this, components need to be rendered on the server
and passed as "slots" to the client. Currently, the pattern for this is
to render custom server components in the "client config". Then when a
view or field is needed to be rendered, we first check the client config
for a "pre-rendered" component, otherwise render our client-side
fallback component.
But for the reasons listed above, this pattern doesn't exactly make
custom server components very useful within the Payload Admin Panel,
which is where this PR comes in. Now, instead of pre-rendering all
components on initial compile, we're able to render custom components
_on demand_, only as they are needed.
To achieve this, we've established [this
pattern](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/8481) of React
Server Functions in the Payload Admin Panel. With Server Functions, we
can iterate the Payload Config and return JSX through React's
`text/x-component` content-type. This means we're able to pass
contextual props to custom components, such as data for fields and
views.
## Breaking Changes
1. Add the following to your root layout file, typically located at
`(app)/(payload)/layout.tsx`:
```diff
/* THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY BY PAYLOAD. */
/* DO NOT MODIFY IT BECAUSE IT COULD BE REWRITTEN AT ANY TIME. */
+ import type { ServerFunctionClient } from 'payload'
import config from '@payload-config'
import { RootLayout } from '@payloadcms/next/layouts'
import { handleServerFunctions } from '@payloadcms/next/utilities'
import React from 'react'
import { importMap } from './admin/importMap.js'
import './custom.scss'
type Args = {
children: React.ReactNode
}
+ const serverFunctions: ServerFunctionClient = async function (args) {
+ 'use server'
+ return handleServerFunctions({
+ ...args,
+ config,
+ importMap,
+ })
+ }
const Layout = ({ children }: Args) => (
<RootLayout
config={config}
importMap={importMap}
+ serverFunctions={serverFunctions}
>
{children}
</RootLayout>
)
export default Layout
```
2. If you were previously posting to the `/api/form-state` endpoint, it
no longer exists. Instead, you'll need to invoke the `form-state` Server
Function, which can be done through the _new_ `getFormState` utility:
```diff
- import { getFormState } from '@payloadcms/ui'
- const { state } = await getFormState({
- apiRoute: '',
- body: {
- // ...
- },
- serverURL: ''
- })
+ const { getFormState } = useServerFunctions()
+
+ const { state } = await getFormState({
+ // ...
+ })
```
## Breaking Changes
```diff
- useFieldProps()
- useCellProps()
```
More details coming soon.
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Co-authored-by: Alessio Gravili <alessio@gravili.de>
Co-authored-by: Jarrod Flesch <jarrodmflesch@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: James <james@trbl.design>
* test: passing collapsible fields test suite
* chore: passes indexPath into ArrayRow & updates path in collapsible field
* fix: collapsible paths and indexPath prop types
* chore: improves path and schemaPath syntax
* leftover
* chore: updates selectors in collapsibles tests
* chore: updates selector in live-preview test suite
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* fix(richtext-lexical): make sure block fields are wrapped in a uniquely-named group
* chore: remove redundant hook
* chore(richtext-lexical): attempt to fix unnecessary unsaved changes warning regression
* cleanup everything
* chore: more cleanup
* debug
* looks like properly cloning the formdata for setting initial state fixes the issue where the old formdata is updated even if node.setFields is not called
* chore: fix e2e tests
* chore: fix e2e tests (a selector has changed)
* chore: fix int tests (due to new blocks data format)
* chore: fix incorrect insert block commands in drawer
* chore: add new e2e test
* chore: fail e2e tests when there are browser console errors
* fix(breaking): beforeInput and afterInput: fix missing key errors, consistent typing and cases in name
