enable versioning and drafts for events collection

scripts/patchLegalVersions.ts → scripts/patchVersions.ts

@@ -1,26 +1,32 @@
 import { getPayloadClient } from "../src/payloadClient";
 
-const COLLECTION_TO_UPDATE = "some-collection"; // change this to the collection you want to update
+const COLLECTION_TO_UPDATE = "events"; // change this to the collection you want to update
+const EXPECTED_STATUS: "published" | "draft" = "published";
 
 /**
  * Need to enable versioning for an existing collection?
  * See https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/5353
+ *
+ * This script should not be run standalone, unless you need to do local testing.
+ * To update a remote database, this file serves as a template and the below code
+ * should be copied to a migration file.
  */
 async function patchCollectionVersioning() {
     try {
         const payload = await getPayloadClient();
 
-        // patch all documents to draft status
+        // patch all documents to expected status
         const result = await payload.update({
             collection: COLLECTION_TO_UPDATE,
             where: {},
             data: {
+                // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment
                 // @ts-ignore - _status is a system field but we need to set it
-                _status: "draft",
+                _status: EXPECTED_STATUS,
             },
         });
 
-        console.log(`Successfully patched ${result.docs.length} documents to draft status.`);
+        console.log(`Successfully patched ${result.docs.length} documents to ${EXPECTED_STATUS} status.`);
         console.log("This will trigger the versioning system to populate the versions collection.");
         process.exit(0);
     } catch (error) {

src/collections/Events.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ export const Events: CollectionConfig = {
             url: ({ data }) => `${process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SERVER_URL}/events/${data.slug}`,
         },
     },
+    versions: {
+        drafts: true,
+        maxPerDoc: 20,
+    },
     access: {
         create: canEditContent,
         delete: canEditContent,