Pass Model into Default Value Function

[gkemp94]

Would love to enable the ability for the first user to have a different role. If I set it as "Admin" by default new users get access to everything. If I set it as "Guest" they can't access admin and change their role to admin. Bit of a catch-22.

[jmikrut]

Hey @gkemp94 — this should be doable in quite a few different ways actually.

First, I believe you are asking to have access to the Mongoose model for your collection within the defaultValue function. Is this accurate? If so, this is tricky because the defaultValue function needs to be run in both the server and admin context, so it should have no server-only functionality like Mongoose models present.

But, I think you can do this solely with access control and maybe a custom role component to be able to restrict select values based on the logged in user. For example, put an access control function on the role field, and within the access control, check if there are users created. IF there are users, then prevent a user from adding a role of admin. If no users, allow. Then, you'd just need to replicate that with a custom select component.

Does this make sense?

[gkemp94]

I think that makes sense. My use case is that when I start up payload I want to be able to have access to the admin, however I also want users to be able to register (in a future front-end) and those users not automatically have access to the admin. Based on this though, perhaps that logic could be in the acess.admin. if (users > 1) { user.role === 'admin' } else { return true } .