Better fields plugin (beta)

This plugin aims to provide you with very specific and improved fields for the admin panel.
We've tried to keep styling as consistent as possible with the existing admin UI, however if there are any issues please report them!

Every field will come with its own usage instructions and structure. These are subject to change!

Installation

  yarn add @nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin
  # OR
  npm i @nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin

Fields

• Slug field
• Combo field
• Number field
• Pattern field
• Colour Text field

Styling

We've tried to re-use the internal components of Payload as much as possible. Where we can't we will re-use the CSS variables used in the core theme to ensure as much compatibility with user customisations.

If you want to further customise the CSS of these components, every component comes with a unique class wrapper in the format of bf<field-name>Wrapper, eg bfPatternFieldWrapper, to help you target these inputs consistently.

Slug field

source

Usage

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { SlugField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...SlugField(['title'], undefined, {
      admin: {
        position: 'sidebar',
      },
    }),
  ],
}

Options

The SlugField accepts the following parameters

• fieldToUse - string[] @default ['title']

• slugifyOptions - Options to be passed to the slugify function

@default
{ lower: true, remove: /[*+~.()'"!?#\.,:@]/g }

• slugOverrides - TextField Slug field overrides, use this to rename the machine name or label of the field

• enableEditSlug - boolean @default true Enable or disable the checkbox field

• editSlugOverrides - CheckboxField @default ['title'] Checkbox field overrides

Combo field

source

Usage

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { ComboField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'fullName',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      type: 'row',
      fields: [
        {
          name: 'firstName',
          type: 'text',
        },
        {
          name: 'lastName',
          type: 'text',
        },
      ],
    },
    ...ComboField(['firstName', 'lastName'], { name: 'fullName' }),
  ],
}

Options

The ComboField accepts the following parameters

• fieldToUse - string[] required

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

• options

  • separator - string @default ' '

  • initial - string The starting string value before all fields are concatenated

  • callback - (value: string) => string You can apply a callback to modify each field value if you want to preprocess them

Number field

source | react-number-format NumericFormat

Usage

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { NumberField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'fullName',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...NumberField(
          {
            prefix: '$ ',
            thousandSeparator: ',',
            decimalScale: 2,
            fixedDecimalScale: true,
          },
          {
            name: 'price',
            required: true,
          },
        ),
  ],
}

Options

The NumberField accepts the following parameters

• format - NumericFormatProps required, accepts props for NumericFormat

  • callback - you can override the internal callback on the value, the value will be a string so you need to handle the conversion to an int or float yourself via parseFloat

  // example
  callback: (value) => parseFloat(value) + 20,

• overrides - NumberField required for name attribute

Pattern field

source | react-number-format PatternFormat

Usage

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { PatternField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'fullName',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...PatternField(
      {
        format: '+1 (###) #### ###',
        prefix: '% ',
        allowEmptyFormatting: true,
        mask: '_',
      },
      {
        name: 'telephone',
        type: 'text',
        required: false,
        admin: {
          placeholder: '% 20',
        },
      },
    ),
  ],
}

Options

The PatternField accepts the following parameters

• format - PatternFormatProps required, accepts props for PatternFormat

  • format required, input for the pattern to be applied

  • callback - you can override the internal callback on the value, the value will be a string so you need to handle the conversion to an int or float yourself via parseFloat

  // example
  callback: (value) => value + 'ID',

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

Notes

We recommend using a text field in Payload.

Colour Text field

source | validate-color

Usage

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { ColourTextField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...ColourTextField({
      name: 'colour',
    }),
  ],
}

export default Examples

Options

The ColourTextField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

Contributing

For development purposes, there is a full working example of how this plugin might be used in the dev directory of this repo.

git clone git@github.com:NouanceLabs/payload-better-fields-plugin.git \
  cd payload-better-fields-plugin && yarn \
  cd demo && yarn \
  cp .env.example .env \
  vim .env \ # add your payload details
  yarn dev