Adding a feature flag to a Sanity type and discussing possible solutions.
7 replies
Last updated: Jul 25, 2022
J
Good morning everyone! ☕
I wanted to add an
It would be marked
I was thinking about to make a switch that - when set to
I searched the Internet for inspiration. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything that would help me. Do you have any ideas where I could start?
🤗
I wanted to add an
isFeaturedflag in the Sanity type.
export default {
name: 'myType',
type: 'object',
title: 'My Type',
fields: [
...
{
title: 'Is featured',
name: 'isFeatured',
type: 'boolean',
},
],
initialValue: {
isFeatured: false,
},
};truefor only one object of this
myTypetype. Unfortunately, here the validation itself, which will not allow to change this value to
truewhen in another document this
isFeaturedflag is already on
true, is not suitable (user-unfriendly).
I was thinking about to make a switch that - when set to
truein obj1, would change obj2 (in which previously was `isFeatured`flag set on
true) to
false.
I searched the Internet for inspiration. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything that would help me. Do you have any ideas where I could start?
🤗
Jul 13, 2022, 5:53 AM
Hi!I would create a singleton document where the client can choose a featured item among all the objects.
Jul 13, 2022, 11:24 AM
{ name: 'featuredPhotos', title: 'Featured Photos', type: 'array', description: 'Displayed on home page. Choose exactly 3 photos.', of: [ { type: 'reference', to: [{ type: 'photo' }], }, ], fieldset: 'company', options: { layout: 'grid' }, validation: (Rule) => Rule.required().min(3).max(3), },Jul 13, 2022, 11:25 AM
something like this:
Jul 13, 2022, 11:28 AM
{
name: 'featuredItem',
type: 'object',
fields: [
{
title: 'Featured item',
name: 'item',
type: 'reference',
to: [{type: 'item'}]
}
]
}Jul 13, 2022, 11:29 AM
J
Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, I couldn't use the new page (it requires another request to Sanity, and I couldn't do that). I added an object to
myType, which stores a
booleanand a
datetime. Every time someone moves the
booleanto
true, the current
datetimeis overwritten. On BE we will simply do a filtering of
myTypeby
boolean = trueand take the object with the latest
datetime.
Jul 15, 2022, 4:16 AM
Yes, that's also a way to solve it.
As a side note, you could have combined the query:
{
"featuredItem": *[_type == "singleton"][0] { featuredItem }
"items": *[_type == "item"]
}
As a side note, you could have combined the query:
{
"featuredItem": *[_type == "singleton"][0] { featuredItem }
"items": *[_type == "item"]
}
Jul 15, 2022, 2:04 PM
J
Jul 25, 2022, 10:35 AM
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