How to deal with overriding saved preferences?

marcveens

5 months ago

1 1

[
  'filename',
  'height'
]

[
  'filename',
  'height',
  'title'
]

• Selected Answer
  

  DanRibbens

  Payload Team

  5 months ago

  Aggregations are a mongoDB way to chain commands together. In this case I'm just finding and updating one collection. This would be a one time update to data in the database coinciding with your config changes.

  It is typical of other frameworks to have migrations for changing schema and modifying data to an existing database. We are kicking off migrations and additional database support work this week.

  For now you can do it from a script or database tool like MongoDB Compass.

• 

  DanRibbens

  Payload Team

  5 months ago

  There isn't a "single press of a button" option for this, but you could update your preferences collection to do it fairly easily.

  Here is an aggregation that will handle your fictional scenario changes for you:

  [
    {
      $match:
        {
          key: {
            $eq: "media-list",
          },
        },
    },
    {
      $set:
        {
          value: {
            columns: ['filename', 'height', 'title'],
          },
        },
    },
  ]
  

  2 replies
  

  marcveens

  5 months ago

  Thanks for your quick answer @DanRibbens. I am not familiar with aggregations and I don't see anything about it in Payload documentation. How can I integrate those aggregations in a project?

  

  DanRibbens

  Payload Team

  5 months ago

  Aggregations are a mongoDB way to chain commands together. In this case I'm just finding and updating one collection. This would be a one time update to data in the database coinciding with your config changes.

  It is typical of other frameworks to have migrations for changing schema and modifying data to an existing database. We are kicking off migrations and additional database support work this week.

  For now you can do it from a script or database tool like MongoDB Compass.