Import, rename & remove fields - Forest Documentation

When building your back-office, 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

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 });

When using readonly: false, the referenced record fields can be edited.

Renaming and removing fields and relations

Rename and remove fields or relations by calling the renameField and removeField methods.

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

Renamed and removed fields are renamed and removed only in the back-office.In your code:

Removed fields are still accessible (for instance, as dependencies to compute new fields)
Renamed fields must still be referred to by using their original name

Computed fields Field validation

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​Moving fields

​Renaming and removing fields and relations

Moving fields

Renaming and removing fields and relations