Access Permissions with Local API mirroring Admin?

[modest panther]

For my first Payload Project, I carefully setup access controls in my admin -- creating a system with user roles and user groups (with roles) -- and everything is setup in a way that I'm quite pleased with.

When I began working on my front end, I was hoping that it would be quite easy to use the local api and to show a collection and to use the logged in user to show all docs that they would have access to based on the admin.

I found the overrides in the query - but what I'm struggling with, is it seems like I need to reimplement the logic. I ended up getting 401 errors if a user isn't logged in (was hoping to get zero docs)...

Is there a simple way to approach creating a front end whereby access on collections/docs mirrors the admin? I had assumed that this was in the DNA of Payload and am a bit confused.

[lilac frost]

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Documentation:

• Access Control - Default Access Control
• Payload Concepts - Package Structure
• Payload Concepts - Retrieving Data - Local API

Community-Help:

• Fetch failed during build on v3
• Can still access collection when read is set to false (payload 3)
• Payload Cloud cache clear
• Payload w/ Supabase Auth

[timid ferry]

You can set disableErrors: true in the local api

https://payloadcms.com/docs/local-api/overview#local-options-available

[modest panther]

Oooo... If that cleans up the 401 when no docs are available... I wonder if the rest of my access controls will work! Thanks for the tip!

[modest panther]

Amazing! That was the solution to my problem! Thank you, @timid ferry !