Nested Docs: Handling Slug Conflicts and Query Limitations

Hey everyone 👋,

I've been using the nested docs plugin with Payload CMS and it's left me with some questions about data structure. I have two main collections:

and

. The

collection resembles what we would typically see in WordPress. I've implemented nested docs on

but I'm unsure about how to lock down the slugs so that

can't create URLs that conflict with the

collection. For example, how can I prevent

from creating any URLs with

in the breadcrumbs?

On a related note, I've run into an issue when querying pages based on their breadcrumbs. I've tried querying like this:

, but it doesn't solve the issue when multiple pages match parts of the query. I've considered adding a hidden

field that saves the last index of the breadcrumbs array, and populating it using a

hook. Is this the right approach? Is there a way to ensure that this

doesn't collide with another collection's path before saving?

I've searched through the Discord and documentation, but I haven't found anything that addresses these issues. I’m relatively new to Payload but have a lot of experience with JavaScript. This specific issue is a bit of a snag for me, and I could really use some advice. We're anticipating our collection entities to reach around 30,000, and we want to prevent unexpected pages from being rendered.

Thanks in advance for your help! 🙏