Can we restrict an user to a specific locale ?

Britik

6 months ago

Hello !

Scenario :

I have 2 users and 2 locales (EN, FR).

I have a Post collection with localized fields, but can I achieve to restrict user to edit only their attributed locale ?

-> The FR user could not edit the EN posts.

I thought about duplicate a post for each locale, add a locale field in users collection and in the post collection, and filter posts by the current user's locale field.

Any ideas about this ? Thanks in advance

damnstaychill
6 months ago
Not 100% but in the roles and access function you might be able to read locale and grant / deny access based on it

So they can only read/write etc if the locale matches the collection
jesschow
Payload Team
6 months ago
Hey @Britik yes you can access
locale
and
language
from the
req
property when you set your access control.

I would do something like this:
```
  access: {
    update: ({ req: { locale, language } }) => {
      if (locale === language) return true;
      return false;
    },
  },
```
This compares the language you set in account options against the current locale, if they match you can update, otherwise you can read but not update.

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