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And I'll I'll show you how to get the most out of these in the application here. Alright, so let's take a look at a specific scenario.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I'm inside a sample app. I've got a contacts table here. Some of these would be assigned to me, some of them would not be. But if I take a look at it, just a a standard kind of CRM format. So now if I wanted to take a look at all of my contacts, and maybe what I want to do is put a bookmark in that every user has access to, a global bookmark.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>But it's dynamic in that when they click on it, it shows their specific contacts. So the bookmark is is globally available, but it is filtered based on the current user. So how can we do something like that? Right? I can go in and I'm gonna set a filter here, let's say user created equals dollar sign underscore current user.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And now, I get a list of my specific contacts or the ones that I created. Right? You know, I could also, you know, have the owner of my organization as well. So if the owner of the organization equals current user, that is my list. Right?\u003C/p>\u003Cp>And now I can go in and actually bookmark this and I may call it something like my contacts, because we can make this globally available. Great. So that is one way to use this. Let's take the scenario where I want to, you know, show me all the posts that have been published within the last month. Right, so again, I can use those dynamic variables to make filtering easier because I, you know, I don't wanna do the math and figure out what it was a month ago.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So I'm just gonna go in, date published is greater than and we'll do dollar sign now minus 1 month. And boom we could see that. And again, these same filters you can use within the API as well. So if I just pull up just a little API tool called Bruno that I've been using. And we are calling these posts.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So if we just get the post resource, we could see we're getting all of our posts here. This is just items slash posts. Now if I add a param for the date published, and let's do gt or underscore gt, which is greater than. And we'll do that dollar sign now. We'll do that same kind of query that we used.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>1 month. And here you could see I'm only getting like 1 or 2 posts. Or if I wanted to see everything that's published within the last day, boom. So that's how this works. That is dynamic variables.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>A lot you can do with these. So make sure you check them out. Read up on the documentation. And we'll see you in the next episode.\u003C/p>","Alright. Welcome back to another episode of Short Hops. I'm your host, Brian Gillespie. In this episode, we are talking about your friends who make filtering easier, dynamic variables. Dynamic variables, you can use these in any API calls when you are doing some filtering. 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So now if I wanted to take a look at all of my contacts, and maybe what I want to do is put a bookmark in that every user has access to, a global bookmark. But it's dynamic in that when they click on it, it shows their specific contacts. So the bookmark is is globally available, but it is filtered based on the current user. So how can we do something like that? Right? I can go in and I'm gonna set a filter here, let's say user created equals dollar sign underscore current user. And now, I get a list of my specific contacts or the ones that I created. Right? You know, I could also, you know, have the owner of my organization as well. So if the owner of the organization equals current user, that is my list. Right? And now I can go in and actually bookmark this and I may call it something like my contacts, because we can make this globally available. Great. So that is one way to use this. Let's take the scenario where I want to, you know, show me all the posts that have been published within the last month. Right, so again, I can use those dynamic variables to make filtering easier because I, you know, I don't wanna do the math and figure out what it was a month ago. So I'm just gonna go in, date published is greater than and we'll do dollar sign now minus 1 month. And boom we could see that. And again, these same filters you can use within the API as well. So if I just pull up just a little API tool called Bruno that I've been using. And we are calling these posts. So if we just get the post resource, we could see we're getting all of our posts here. This is just items slash posts. Now if I add a param for the date published, and let's do gt or underscore gt, which is greater than. And we'll do that dollar sign now. We'll do that same kind of query that we used. 1 month. And here you could see I'm only getting like 1 or 2 posts. 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This is one of my blog posts, a very nice piece by mister Carrot Gillespie, about steampunk rabbits and why they are the future of work.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So I've got some edits that I wanna make to this, but this is already published. So any edits that I make, if I save, could potentially show up live on our site. So content versioning to the rescue. How do we enable this? We go to our settings.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We go to the collection we would like to enable versioning for. And we'll go down to the settings for this and we'll find the content versioning header. We'll check the box. I'm sure you know what that will do. And now we'll go back to our post.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So at the top we can see now we have this little badge for main. So that is the main piece of content. That's the the main version that we are going to publish. So if I wanna make some changes here, I could just go and create a new version. This is, BG edits, And the key is important here.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We'll just call this Bryant's edits. Great. I've created that new version. Now I could go in and make all the changes I want here. This looks pretty good.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Okay. So what I can do now is save this version and I've got 2 versions here. I can see Bryant's edits. I could potentially, you know, send this to somebody on our team, ask them to review it. And then once I am ready to promote or publish this version, we've got a a function here called promote version.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So basically I'm gonna click promote version. This will then show me a difference between what is published and what is the, the edits that I'm making. And here I can confirm which version should be used for each of these individual fields. So if I don't want to overwrite the summary, I can, you know, use whatever is in the the main version here. Or likewise, in this case, I want to overwrite everything entirely.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I'll hit this and I've got the option to keep or delete. I could, keep this change, and now those changes that I make are now published in the main content version. Now when I'm accessing versions via the API, especially on like a front end or something, let's say I'm trying to fetch this piece of content. So I'm just gonna go to items slash posts and I could see the post here. Right?\u003C/p>\u003Cp>If I were to go in and, you know, create a new version, let's just call it test version, and here's some more changes. We'll just save. Oh, actually, let's switch that. Here's the changes. And we'll save this version.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>So now I'm working on the test version. If I run that API call again, you could see I don't see those changes. Right? But if I am calling an individual piece of content, I can add a version param to this. So I could say version equals test, and I could see here's the changes that we have.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Right? Great. So, that is content versioning. There's also a separate API endpoint for this as well if you wanna get all the individual content versions and it does support all the regular global parameters. So make sure you check out the documentation on this on how to leverage it further.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>That's it for this episode. We'll catch you on the next one.\u003C/p>","Alright. And welcome back to another episode of Short Hops. I'm your host, Brian Gillespie. In this episode, we are gonna cover content versioning. So what is content versioning? Basically it allows you to do stress free editing on articles or content or pages, whatever you're serving up, that you've already published. Right? We've all been through it. Hey, we need to make some edits to a page. I need to be able to save those edits, but I don't wanna push those live until we get approval or we've had time to vet them out. So content versioning allows you to basically make changes and edits without affecting the published version of a piece of content. Now how do we set that up? Right? I am in a sample Directus instance. This is one of my blog posts, a very nice piece by mister Carrot Gillespie, about steampunk rabbits and why they are the future of work. So I've got some edits that I wanna make to this, but this is already published. So any edits that I make, if I save, could potentially show up live on our site. So content versioning to the rescue. How do we enable this? We go to our settings. We go to the collection we would like to enable versioning for. And we'll go down to the settings for this and we'll find the content versioning header. We'll check the box. I'm sure you know what that will do. And now we'll go back to our post. So at the top we can see now we have this little badge for main. So that is the main piece of content. That's the the main version that we are going to publish. So if I wanna make some changes here, I could just go and create a new version. This is, BG edits, And the key is important here. We'll just call this Bryant's edits. Great. I've created that new version. Now I could go in and make all the changes I want here. This looks pretty good. Okay. So what I can do now is save this version and I've got 2 versions here. I can see Bryant's edits. I could potentially, you know, send this to somebody on our team, ask them to review it. And then once I am ready to promote or publish this version, we've got a a function here called promote version. So basically I'm gonna click promote version. This will then show me a difference between what is published and what is the, the edits that I'm making. And here I can confirm which version should be used for each of these individual fields. So if I don't want to overwrite the summary, I can, you know, use whatever is in the the main version here. Or likewise, in this case, I want to overwrite everything entirely. I'll hit this and I've got the option to keep or delete. I could, keep this change, and now those changes that I make are now published in the main content version. Now when I'm accessing versions via the API, especially on like a front end or something, let's say I'm trying to fetch this piece of content. So I'm just gonna go to items slash posts and I could see the post here. Right? If I were to go in and, you know, create a new version, let's just call it test version, and here's some more changes. We'll just save. Oh, actually, let's switch that. Here's the changes. And we'll save this version. So now I'm working on the test version. If I run that API call again, you could see I don't see those changes. Right? But if I am calling an individual piece of content, I can add a version param to this. 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