This plugin aims to provide you with very specific and improved fields for the admin panel.
We've tried to keep styling as consistent as possible with the existing admin UI, however if there are any issues please report them!

Every field will come with its own usage instructions and structure. These are subject to change!

All fields have been changed for how they are imported. You will also need to install dependencies directly yourself. This should streamline the bundle size a lot especially for unused fields.

  pnpm add @nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin
  # OR
  npm i @nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin

• Slug field
• Combo field
• Number field
• Pattern field
• Range field
• Colour Text field
• Telephone field
• Alert Box field
• Colour Picker field
• Date field

We've tried to re-use the internal components of Payload as much as possible. Where we can't we will re-use the CSS variables used in the core theme to ensure as much compatibility with user customisations.

If you want to further customise the CSS of these components, every component comes with a unique class wrapper in the format of bf<field-name>Wrapper, eg bfPatternFieldWrapper, to help you target these inputs consistently.

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import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { SlugField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Slug'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...SlugField(
      {
        name: 'slug',
        admin: {
          position: 'sidebar',
        },
      },
      {
        useFields: ['title', 'subtitle'],
      },
    ),
  ],
}

The SlugField accepts the following parameters

• fieldsToUse - string defaults to 'title'

• overrides

  • slugOverrides - TextField required Textfield overrides

  • checkboxOverrides - CheckboxField | Checkbox field overrides

Here is a more full example:

...SlugField('title'),

index and unique are set to true by default

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import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { ComboField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Combo'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'fullName',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      type: 'row',
      fields: [
        {
          name: 'firstName',
          type: 'text',
        },
        {
          name: 'lastName',
          type: 'text',
        },
      ],
    },
    ...ComboField(['firstName', 'lastName'], { name: 'fullName' }),
  ],
}

The ComboField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

• fieldToUse - string[] required

• options

  • separator - string defaults to ' '

  • initial - string The starting string value before all fields are concatenated

Removed options:

• callback - (value: string) => string You can apply a callback to modify each field value if you want to preprocess them

source | react-number-format NumericFormat

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { NumberField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Number'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'fullName',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...NumberField(
      {
        name: 'price',
        required: true,
      },
      {
        prefix: '$ ',
        suffix: ' %',
        thousandSeparator: ',',
        decimalScale: 2,
        fixedDecimalScale: true,
      },
    ),
  ],
}

The NumberField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - NumberField required for name attribute

• format - NumericFormatProps required, accepts props for NumericFormat

  • callback - you can override the internal callback on the value, the value will be a string so you need to handle the conversion to an int or float yourself via parseFloat

  // example
  callback: (value) => parseFloat(value) + 20,

source | react-number-format PatternFormat

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { PatternField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Pattern'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'fullName',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...PatternField(
      {
        name: 'telephone',
        type: 'text',
        required: false,
        admin: {
          placeholder: '% 20',
        },
      },
      {
        format: '+1 (###) #### ###',
        prefix: '% ',
        allowEmptyFormatting: true,
        mask: '_',
      },
    ),
  ],
}

The PatternField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

• format - PatternFormatProps required, accepts props for PatternFormat

  • format required, input for the pattern to be applied

  • callback - you can override the internal callback on the value, the value will be a string so you need to handle the conversion to an int or float yourself via parseFloat

  // example
  callback: (value) => value + 'ID',

We recommend using a text field in Payload.

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import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { RangeField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Range'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...RangeField(
      {
        name: 'groups',
      },
      { min: 5, max: 200, step: 5 },
    ),
  ],
}

export default Examples

The RangeField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - NumberField required for name attribute

• config - required

  • min - number defaults to 1

  • max - number defaults to 100

  • step - number defaults to 1

  • showPreview - boolean defaults to false, shows a preview box of the underlying selected value, n/a for null

  • markers - NumberMarker[] array of markers to be visually set, accepts an optional label

    • { value: number, label?: string}[]

source | validate-color

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { ColourTextField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/ColourText'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...ColourTextField({
      name: 'colour',
    }),
  ],
}

export default Examples

The ColourTextField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

source | react-phone-number-input

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { TelephoneField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Telephone'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...TelephoneField({
      name: 'telephone',
      admin: {
        placeholder: '+1 2133 734 253',
      },
    }),
  ],
}

export default Examples

The TelephoneField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

• config - Config optional, allows for overriding attributes in the phone field

  • international defaults to true | Forces international formatting

  • defaultCountry accepts a 2-letter country code eg. 'US' | If defaultCountry is specified then the phone number can be input both in "international" format and "national" format

  • country accepts a 2-letter country code eg. 'US' | If country is specified then the phone number can only be input in "national" (not "international") format

  • initialValueFormat If an initial value is passed, and initialValueFormat is "national", then the initial value is formatted in national format

  • withCountryCallingCode If country is specified and international property is true then the phone number can only be input in "international" format for that country

  • countryCallingCodeEditable

  • smartCaret When the user attempts to insert a digit somewhere in the middle of a phone number, the caret position is moved right before the next available digit skipping any punctuation in between

  • useNationalFormatForDefaultCountryValue When defaultCountry is defined and the initial value corresponds to defaultCountry, then the value will be formatted as a national phone number by default

  • countrySelectProps

    • unicodeFlags defaults to false | Set to true to render Unicode flag icons instead of SVG images

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import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { AlertBoxField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/AlertBox'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...AlertBoxField(
      {
        name: 'alert',
      },
      {
        type: 'info',
        message: 'Please be aware that the title is required for the mobile app.',
      },
    ),
  ],
}

export default Examples

The AlertBoxField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - UIField required for name attribute

• config - Config required

  • type - a selection of info | alert | error which come with different styles

  • message - required string

  • className - optional string to help you style individual alerts better

  • icon - optional, default is enabled

    • enable - boolean, turn off the icon

    • Element - React component to override the provided icon

If you want to make this field appear conditionally, you should use the field's admin conditional config as provided by Payload.

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import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { ColourPickerField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/ColourPicker'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...ColourPickerField(
      {
        name: 'backgroundColour',
        required: true,
      },
      {
        type: 'hslA',
      },
    ),
  ],
}

export default Examples

The ColourPickerField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - TextField required for name attribute

• config - Config required

  • type - defaults to hex, a selection of hex | hexA | rgb | rgbA | hsl | hslA

  • expanded - optional boolean, controls if the selector is visible by default

  • showPreview - optional boolean

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The goal of this field is to help with management of timezones.

import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
import { DateField } from '@nouance/payload-better-fields-plugin/Date'

const Examples: CollectionConfig = {
  slug: 'examples',
  admin: {
    useAsTitle: 'title',
  },
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'title',
      type: 'text',
    },
    ...DateField({
      name: 'date',
      admin: {
        date: {
          pickerAppearance: 'dayAndTime',
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
}

export default Examples

The DateField accepts the following parameters

• overrides - DateField required for name attribute

• timezone - Timezone optional

  • enabled - defaults to true

  • timezones - optional list of timezones to customise available options

  • overrides - SelectField required for name attribute

For development purposes, there is a full working example of how this plugin might be used in the dev directory of this repo.

git clone git@github.com:NouanceLabs/payload-better-fields-plugin.git \
  cd payload-better-fields-plugin && pnpm \
  cd demo && pnpm \
  cp .env.example .env \
  vim .env \ # add your payload details
  pnpm dev

Thanks to the following people for contributing code to this plugin

Idan Yekutiel, MarkAtOmniux, Kalon Robson