add versioning to existing collection

[main ingot]

How do i add versioning and drafts to an already existing collection that ahas items in it? When enabling drafts it will dissapear in the admin UI

[copper laurel]

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• Drafts - Controlling who can see Collection drafts - Restricting draft access
• Drafts
• Drafts - Draft API
• Search Plugin - Basic Usage - Collection reindexing
• Installation - Adding to an existing app - 1. Install the relevant packages

[cinder magnet]

Hey @main ingot

Yeah so this happens because versions change the way the list view expects to read your content. Your data is still there, it's just not being picked up by the list view properly. See here: https://github.com/akhrarovsaid/payload-v3-faqs?tab=readme-ov-file#i-added-versions--drafts-to-my-collection-config-and-now-all-of-my-documents-are-missing

[main ingot]

Hey @cinder magnet Thanks for your response,

I already tried the migrations before my post with no sucess.

The PATCH request seems like a solution but it gives the following output

{
    "docs": [],
    "errors": [],
    "message": "Updated 0 Page successfully."
}

Using ?where[id][not_equals]=true Worked

Thanks