Inconsistent labelling of content status between list view and form view

[rymate1234]

Link to reproduction

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Describe the Bug

We've noticed a minor issue with the labelling of post status being inconsistent on the list view and the form view. If you have a published document that has a draft version after the publish date it is marked as draft

However on the list view itself it appears as changed

Should this not be consistent? It makes it dificult for cms editors to know what content is truly published

To Reproduce

1. Take published item
2. Make edit
3. Observe inconsistency

Payload Version

2.13.0

Adapters and Plugins

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[DanRibbens]

@rymate1234,

Thanks for reporting your issue. I've moved it to a discussion based because it represents new functionality beyond how things currently work.

I agree that this would be confusing, in that you only see the latest status and it would be helpful to know if it there is a version that is published, not just the most recent status. For the list view to work the collection is queried with drafts=true so that it can show published and non-published records.

To add to the user experience we could add a virtual field to versions that can show separately from the status. This is just one idea, I'm open to others so long as we aren't making a breaking change.

[wkentdag]

I was able to implement a "fix" on my own through hooks + custom components:

1. Create a hook where you determine whether a document is a true draft vs "changed" (published doc w/ pending draft updates -- here's how I do it), and assign that value to a virtual field
2. Create a custom Cell component where you modify the UI to distinguish between the two cases. eg, here I change text color + add an icon to differentiate "scheduled" drafts from regular ones.

I do think this would be nice to have in core tho, since the default draft behavior is to serve the latest published version even if there's newer drafts, and the list view UI would make you think otherwise. Could be as simple as changing the Cell text from "Draft" to "Published (drafts pending)" or similar 💭