Query by publishDate is not working

[Stupidism]

Background

I want to have a simple scheduled publish feature like this

#567

Repro Steps

1. start server

git clone [email protected]:Stupidism/seo-mono.git
git checkout feng/test-scheduled-publish
pnpm I
nx run seo-payload:serve

2. Create a doc and publish for the first time

http://localhost:3333/admin/collections/test-drafts/62be8d54722f5bd46633ca9f

3. Query the doc with playground (to simulate guest access)

# Write your query or mutation here
query findTestDrafts {
    TestDrafts {
      docs {
        name
        publishDate
      }
    }
  }

4. Update the doc with a publishDate after today:

5. query the doc with playground again
   Now u can see the updated version instead of the former version:

Expected behavior

According to requirement and the description from the code snnipet, it should return the version that publishDate smaller than today.

[DanRibbens]

Hey @Stupidism,

I'm glad to see you are exploring this solution more. Looking at the code for the access control, it is doing exactly what you're asking it to.
The access control on TestDrafts for read first checks if a user is logged in before querying publishDate. Unless you have logged out it won't bother querying the way you are expecting.

When you are querying in step 5, try from an incognito window or add a step to logout from the admin UI first.

I was able to do this from your repro to be sure.

If your app will have authenticated users and admin users for the panel either by role or using a separate auth collection, remember to add those conditions to your read access function as well to gate the content.

[Stupidism]

Aha, I get what you mean now.

My understanding was wrong. I was expecting to see the Before version, when After version is not published

[DanRibbens]

Ah! Sure, you could still have that but you'll need to modify the query to use an or operator to allow the before to come through under the different conditions.