Move, rename and delete fields

When building your admin panel, you will probably want to hide as much complexity from your users as you can.

This includes:

• Hiding technical and confidential fields

• Using naming conventions that the final user understands.

Moving fields

You can import fields from single record relationships into your collections.

The imported fields will behave as if they were on that collection.

// Assuming the following structure:
// User    { id, firstName, lastName, addressId }
// Address { id, streetName, streetNumber, city, countryId }
// Country { id, name }

userCollection
  .importField('city', { path: 'address:city', readonly: true })
  .importField('country', { path: 'address:country:name', readonly: true });

Note that when using readonly: false, the related records will be updated.

Renaming and removing fields

Renaming and removing fields can be done simply by calling the renameField and removeFields methods.

collection.renameField('account_v3_uuid_new', 'account').removeField('password');

Renamed and removed fields are renamed and removed ONLY in the admin panel.

In your code:

• Removed fields are still accessible (for instance, as dependencies to compute new fields)

• Renamed fields should still be referred to by using their original name.