Reacting to permission changes in admin panel

[joas8211]

I'd want to see improvement towards reacting to permission changes in admin panel. I've had already a couple of cases where this has become a problem, but there's no perfect way to fix it without making changes to Payload's core.

I worked around the problem using refreshPermissions function from useAuth React hook by extending the edit view. Due to changes in Payload 2.0 that seems to be really hard to do now. Instead of extending edit view, I can add UI field that does the same trick after form has been submitted. I can also add an effect on list view that triggers permission refresh every time the list changes to take account deletion and bulk operations, but that causes extra requests when opening the list and browsing.

There's few options that could make this better:

• Opt-in setting for collections and globals to refresh permissions when data is modified from admin panel. This is the easiest option for anyone needing this feature.
• Frontend hooks for hooking into data operations made in admin panel. So that this could be implemented better by the project developer. This could be useful in other ways also.

I can implement this in Payload by submitting a PR if we come into conclusion for how do we do it, if this is something the team wants to be a core feature.

Related links:

• Issue for upgrading the multi-tenancy plugin for Payload 2.0 where I have this problem: Payload 2.0 joas8211/payload-tenancy#24
• Discord community-help thread where I noticed that extending edit view is really hard now: https://discord.com/channels/967097582721572934/1160851828624338954/1160851828624338954
• GitHub discussion where I suggested using dependency injection for UI components, and which may also be useful when if we are implementing some sort of a system to hook into admin panel data operations: Using dependency injection for improved customizability of the admin panel #3385