Hey everyone š,
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:
pages
and
recipes
. The
pages
collection resembles what we would typically see in WordPress. I've implemented nested docs on
pages
but I'm unsure about how to lock down the slugs so that
pages
can't create URLs that conflict with the
recipes
collection. For example, how can I prevent
pages
from creating any URLs with
/recipes
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:
/api/pages?where[breadcrumbs.url][equals]=%2Frecipes%2Fwith%2Fsugar
, but it doesn't solve the issue when multiple pages match parts of the query. I've considered adding a hidden
path
field that saves the last index of the breadcrumbs array, and populating it using a
beforeValidate
hook. Is this the right approach? Is there a way to ensure that this
path
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. Iām 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! š
Did you ever figure out how you're going to handle these things? Going through some of the same thoughts myself right now.
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