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[safe basin]

sorted out, just forced a save of the collection via local api

[lucid raven]

Sorry for the old question, but when you forced a save of the collection, was it an update or a copy? This didn't work for me.

await payload.update({
  collection: slug,
  id,
  data: {},
  draft: true,
})

[lucid raven]

There's a serious race condition happening with the code above. I've run it many times without success. It only worked when I placed a console.log in node_modules/payload/dist/versions/saveVersions.js to see why it wasn't running. There is also a need for official documentation on how to migrate after setting drafts on collections that already have documents. I'm totally at a loss here.

[hot tiger]

This worked for me - this way I can enable Drafts on existing collections and migrate the docs with a post from Postman:

import { HttpError } from "internal/interface"

import type { GeneratedTypes } from "payload"
import type { PayloadRequest } from "payload/types"


export const migrateCollectionToDrafts = async (req: PayloadRequest): Promise<void> => {

  const { 
    body: { collectionSlug } 
  } = req

  if (!collectionSlug) throw  new HttpError('No collection slug in request.', 400)

  try {
    const result = await req.payload.update({
      collection: collectionSlug as keyof GeneratedTypes['collections'],
      where: {
        'id': {
          exists: true,
        },
      },
      data: {},
    })
  
    const updatedDocs = result.docs
    const errors = result.errors

    if (errors?.length > 0) {
      req.payload.logger.error(`${errors.length} error(s) migrating collection ${collectionSlug} to Drafts, see Debug Log.`)
      errors.forEach(e => {
        req.payload.logger.error(e)
      })
    }

    if (updatedDocs?.length > 0) {
      const ids = updatedDocs.map(d => d.id).join(', ')
      req.payload.logger.info(`Migrated collection ${collectionSlug} to Drafts, ids: ${ids}.`)
    }
  } catch (e) {
    req.payload.logger.error(`Error migrating collection ${collectionSlug} to Drafts: `+e)
  }
}

Base config:

...
  endpoints: [
    {
      path: '/migrateCollectionToDrafts',
      method: 'post',
      handler: migrateCollectionToDrafts
    },
  ],
...