How do get document data within Collection custom component?

[frank solar]

I'm trying to create a "view page" button using a UI field within the relevant collection and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get any of the document data I need to generate the URL

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[sage ocean]

@frank solar You should be able to use Hooks to get document data

https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/hooks

https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/hooks#usedocumentinfo

[frank solar]

Yeah I saw the documention on this hooks existence but the only valuable information I could find returned from this hook was the doc's slug, but, I need more than that.

Specifically I need the doc's slug and the id of the category it is related to so I can fetch that category and generate the URL since the URL structure is https://mywebsite/category/slug

[sage ocean]

You only got the slug back?

Can I check out your usage of the hook?

[frank solar]

No I got a bunch of other values, but, none of them looked like it would give me what I needed, kinda wish the docuementation explained what some of the values are

[sage ocean]

I can review it with you if you post the returned value here

[frank solar]

Oh on second glance it may be the initialData, if not I can post the returned value, let me test this real quick though

[sage ocean]

Sure thing

[frank solar]

Yup, the initialData gets me the docs fields and values, this is what I needed I apologize for not seeing this value during my first pass and making a post about it lol