Enabling drafts after collection has items causes items to not show on admin panel

[noble lintel]

If I…

1. Create a collection
2. Add new items to this collection
3. Enable drafts in the collection

The items disappear from the admin panel under that collection. If I comment out “drafts: true”, the items show up again.

Im using mongodb.

Can anyone help?

[torpid sky]

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[meager lynx]

you need to resave the items

[noble lintel]

How can I do that if they arent showing up?

[ancient pivot]

add this to onInit in your payload config file: onInit: async (payload) => { await payload.update({ collection: 'pages', // your collection slug goes here where: {}, data: {_status: 'published'} }) }

after that, you can remove it from your onInit or comment it out. this will update all your collection items to have the new _status field populated, which will make them show up again in your list view

[noble lintel]

@ancient pivot thanks a ton! You rock!

(also, maybe payload should handle this internally?)

[meager lynx]

With mongodb its not good idea to handle internally. With sql database it is handled by migrations.

I created a script that resaves any collection.

Here is a link:
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/434#discussioncomment-12711086

Hope it can help in future for other issues too.