Hook Only on First Publish: Tips Needed

zed0547last year

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  hunaltair69last year

  when it gets first publish

  
  
  

  basically a user creates a building trough a form in the application

  
  
  

  the admins checks it in payload, maybe fixes, adds some details, and makes the first publish

  
  
  

  then the user who created it should get an email that his building was published and it's live

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  zed0547last year

  So on that collection, you'd likely want to create a

  beforeChange

  hook.

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/collections#beforechange
  
  

  In that hook, you get the doc before its saved, and the originalDoc - this is how you can compare the

  _status

  of the docs. If the doc is changing from a draft to published, then the originalDoc will have status of draft, and the doc will have a status of published

  
  
  

  Does that make sense?

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  hunaltair69last year

  hmmm, it does, but I will have to test it out, thanks for the tip

  
  
  

  I looked into it and my issue is that if the document gets published but after it they make any change, save it as draft and publish it again

  
  
  

  that is the same thing.

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  zed0547last year

  You can also have a check for if the doc was previously published

  
  
  

  The website template does this

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  hunaltair69last year

  you mean this?
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  zed0547last year

  Yes exactly

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  hunaltair69last year

  yes but this only checks if exactly the previous was published and now it's unpublished. no?

  
  

  like i want to send an email if this is the ever ever first time publishing, and I guess no clear solution on that

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  zed0547last year

  I imagine you could make a request via rest or local api against the versions collection to check if any previous version had a status of published

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  hunaltair69last year

  yes this was an amazing idea. if anyone else needs this, in the beforeChange hook
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  zed0547last year

  Woohoo, very nice! I guess we can mark this as solved then?

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  hunaltair69last year

  Yes sir, thank you for the help 😄

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  zed0547last year

  My pleasure! Glad we figured it out here