Field-level Access Control

Field Access Control is Access Control used to restrict access to specific Fields within a Document.

To add Access Control to a Field, use the access property in your Field Config:

1import type { Field } from 'payload';
2
3export const FieldWithAccessControl: Field = {
4  // ...
5  access: { 
6    // ...
7  },
8}

Config Options

Access Control is specific to the operation of the request.

To add Access Control to a Field, use the access property in the Field Config:

1import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload';
2
3export const Posts: CollectionConfig = {
slug: 'posts',
fields: [
  {
    name: 'title',
    type: 'text',
    access: {
      create: ({ req: { user } }) => { ... },
      read: ({ req: { user } }) => { ... },
      update: ({ req: { user } }) => { ... },
    },
  };
],
16};

The following options are available:

Function	Purpose
`create`	Allows or denies the ability to set a field's value when creating a new document. More details.
`read`	Allows or denies the ability to read a field's value. More details.
`update`	Allows or denies the ability to update a field's value More details.

Create

Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to set a field's value when creating a new document. If false is returned, any passed values will be discarded.

Available argument properties:

Option	Description
`req`	The Request object containing the currently authenticated `user`
`data`	The full data passed to create the document.
`siblingData`	Immediately adjacent field data passed to create the document.

Read

Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to read a field's value. If false, the entire property is omitted from the resulting document.

Available argument properties:

Option	Description
`req`	The Request object containing the currently authenticated `user`
`id`	`id` of the document being read
`doc`	The full document data.
`siblingData`	Immediately adjacent field data of the document being read.

Update

Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to update a field's value. If false is returned, any passed values will be discarded.

If false is returned and you attempt to update the field's value, the operation will not throw an error however the field will be omitted from the update operation and the value will remain unchanged.

Available argument properties:

Option	Description
`req`	The Request object containing the currently authenticated `user`
`id`	`id` of the document being updated
`data`	The full data passed to update the document.
`siblingData`	Immediately adjacent field data passed to update the document with.
`doc`	The full document data, before the update is applied.

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Field-level Access Control

Config Options

Create

Read

Update

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