How to get a timeline of versions?

moritz

2 months ago

I have a collection that uses

versions

and

drafts

. This collection has a field

updatedAt

I want to display to the user the

updatedAt

field of the the 3 versions leading up to the currently published versions.

Basicly I want to show to the user a list like this

<ul>
  <li>Updated Mar 12 by X</li>
  <li>Updated Mar 15 by Y</li>
  <li>Updated Mar 16 by Z</li>
</ul>

whats the best way to get this data?

patrikkozak
Payload Team
2 months ago
Hey @moritz - you can do this by fetching to your rest api to the versions collection per your specific document.

Your api endpoint would look like this:
/api/{collectionSlug}/versions?where[parent][equals]=id_of_main_doc

I've attached an image showing what this query would return

You can also find more information on what you can do with versions here:
https://payloadcms.com/docs/versions/overview#versions

Let me know if you have any other questions!

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