Prevent update of array->string in global

benjick.last year

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export const TaskLanguagesGlobal: GlobalConfig = {
  fields: [
    {
      name: "languages",
      type: "array",
      required: true,
      fields: [
        {
          name: "code",
          type: "text",
          required: true,
          unique: true,
          access: {
            update: ({ data, id }) => {
              console.log("😀", data);
              return true;
            },
          },
        },

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  notchrlast year

  @131748314256244736

  Can the field be set to readonly?

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  benjick.last year

  Hey

  @1049775120559898725

  , thanks for the reply. I tried that, but that doesn't let me set the initial value

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  notchrlast year

  Will you only set it once and not edit it again?

  
  
  

  There's a couple of ways to do this depending on how you want it to work

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  benjick.last year

  Yeah, basically I want my content editors to be able add new rows to the array, set the code and then never change it

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  notchrlast year

  What if they need to edit the code?

  
  
  

  Like, say, there's a syntax bug

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  benjick.last year

  the code is a iso 639 code, so they never change

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  notchrlast year

  ah okay

  
  
  

  So you could have a hook

  
  
  

  const ExampleField: Field = {
    name: 'name',
    type: 'text',
    hooks: {
      beforeValidate: [(args) => {...}],
      beforeChange: [(args) => {...}],
      afterChange: [(args) => {...}],
      afterRead: [(args) => {...}],
    }
  }

  
  
  

  on the field in question

  
  
  

  So on beforeChange, you can check the previous value, if it was empty, then allow the change

  
  
  

  Otherwise, dont

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  benjick.last year

  Thanks for the help, I ended up doing it like this:

  
  
  

  hooks: {
    beforeChange: [
      ({ value, previousValue }) => {
        if (previousValue) {
          return previousValue as string;
        }
        return value as string;
      },
    ],
  },

  
  
  

  which makes a lot of sense, I got snowed into

  access

  that I didn't think about anything else. Cheers!

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  notchrlast year

  Nice!!!

  
  
  

  Working how you'd like now?

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  benjick.last year

  Yeah, exactly like I wanted to, thanks again!