Place custom fields in collection meta?

David

last month

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  dribbens

  Payload Team

  last month

  It would be nice to have more control on the meta like you're saying. I would open a github discussion as a feature request. I think others would be interested in this as well. We have the

  admin.position

  property, it could be extended to push fields to meta I would think.

  
  
  

  As for ordering fields, they just come in the order that they appear in the config. I'm unsure why you would need a

  weight

  property instead.

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  David

  last month

  @dribbens if I modify the collection via a handful of plugins, and then also add fields to the collection config itself ... it becomes a pain to figure out where my field is going to be placed.

  
  
  

  Say for example I have two plugins which automatically attach fields to every collection in the sidebar ... then in a specific collection I want to add a couple fields to the sidebar, but I want the first sidebar field on the top, and the second on the bottom ... with my plugins sidebar fields in the middle.

  
  
  

  Plugin 1 - "user history", which adds fields for "Created By" and "Updated By"

  
  

  Plugin 2 - "slugs" which adds auto-generated slugs to my collections

  
  

  Collection A - adds a relationship to my image uploads to the sidebar, and also adds a relationship to a Categories collection, and a Tags collection

  
  
  

  I'd like to have the Category and Tags on the top, the Slug, the Featured Image, then Created By and Updated By

  
  
  

  This is a bit of an acrobatic feat with the current "in whatever order they were added" solution - a simple weighting system would allow me to prioritize the sidebar items and they could then be sorted by this ... using a simple default of say 10 or 20 for fields that don't explicitly specify the weight, allows for other fields to go before or after them easily

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  dribbens

  Payload Team

  last month

  I definitely see your point! I'm considering how we should go about this.

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  Tinouti

  last week

  Hi folks! I was actually just looking into how I could do just that, but sounds like this isn't yet a possibility, is that correct?

  
  

  Should we create a feature request for it on github? 👀

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  dribbens

  Payload Team

  last week

  @Tinouti That would be a big help. We bump feature requests to the roadmap this way.

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  Tinouti

  last week

  Done! 👍

  
  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/2318