How to extend global config?

jacko495 months ago

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  tinouti5 months ago

  Just put it into a variable. 😊

  
  
  

  eg:

  
  

  const myCustomAccess = ({ req: { user } }) => {
    return Boolean(user)
  }
  export default buildConfig({
    globals: [
      {
        slug: 'global1',
        access: myCustomAccess,
        fields: []
      },
      {
        slug: 'global2',
        access: myCustomAccess,
        fields: []
      },
    ]
  })

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  nvskx5 months ago

  how would you override it?

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  tinouti5 months ago

  Like if for some globals or collections you want to have almost the same logic, but slightly different?

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  nvskx5 months ago

  yes, for example I want some specific collections to have a different access

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  jacko495 months ago

  Hey thanks for this, I think I was more wondering if I can just set it once and forget, with the proposed method I would still have to fill out 20 or more objects

  
  

  appreciate the response :payloadlove:

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  tinouti5 months ago

  @Nvskx The beauty of Payload it's that it's all just Typescript, so however you would abstract/override things in Javascript, that's how you're gonna be doing it in Payload. So for example, if only

  some

  of your access logic is reusable, abstract that piece into it's own function and call it where needed.

  
  
  

  @Jacko depends on your needs really. For example, if you have 5 globals that all use pretty much the same config, you could make a constructor function. eg:

  
  

  export const baseGlobal = (slug: string): GlobalConfig => {
    return {
      slug,
      access: () => {}
      fields: []
    }
  }

  
  

  and then use it like this, for example:

  
  

  const globals: string[] = ['global1', 'global2', 'global3', 'global4', 'global5'];
  export default buildConfig({
    globals: globals.map((slug) => baseGlobal(slug))
  })

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  jacko495 months ago

  Leaving this for anyone else, in my case I was adding a tenant field and permissions to all my globals:

  
  

  export const baseGlobal = (existingConfig: GlobalConfig): GlobalConfig => {
      return {
          slug: existingConfig.slug,
          access: {
              read: isSuperAdminOrHasSiteAccess(),
              update: isSuperAdminOrHasSiteAccess()
          },
          fields: [
              {
                  name: "tenant",
                  type: "relationship",
                  relationTo: "tenants",
                  admin: {
                      hidden: true
                  }
              },
              ...existingConfig.fields
          ]
      }   
  }

  
  
  

  Thanks again @Tinouti !