Is there any example on how to publish one locale at a time ?

yhn5790

4 months ago

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 months ago

  hey @yhn5790 — I can give some answers here

  
  

  
  

  so, Payload uses "field-based localization", and not document-level localization. Currently, there is no way to maintain separate draft / published states of different locales on a single document, because all the locales are stored on the document itself. But, as you said, this could probably be done with some new fields for sure, and though hijacking the

  publish

  button

  
  

  
  

  I do think that Payload should solve for this in an official way though. So, you've just inspired me to add this to our roadmap. I can't say that it will be completed within the next month, but I do see the importance here, so I would like to see what you end up building in the meantime until we support this officially. Keep me in the loop!

  
  

  
  

  also happy to help brainstorm how to do this

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  yhn5790

  4 months ago

  field-based localization

  is one of the features that we require and something that I love about Payload. Strapi at the moment offers this only for top level fields (but not for components (block) or dynamic zone (blocks))

  
  

  
  

  In an ideal world,

  _status

  in collections would be a

  localized

  field. In the UI, we already have context about the current

  locale

  the user is on and based on that when we publish we update the status of that locale. This could be an opt-in feature if others like the current workflow of publishing all at once

  
  
  

  When viewing versions we repeat the same thing. We only show the drafts for the current locale (default) and if folks want to view other locale they could use the select option like how it is right now.

  /api/<collection>/versions/?locale=fr

  
  
  

  Not sure if this is going to mess up

  autosave

  in anyway

  
  

  
  

  For our use case, we were planning to have a

  localized

  field

  status

  and do what I mentioned in the first part of the previous ping. I don't think i'll be able to affect the version view screen

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 months ago

  your approach is actually what the team and i envision for this