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Saves collection ordering changes as drafts, when enabled. Queries for published docs now retain the previous order until the moved document is published, more closely aligning with expected behavior.

Use case: image you have a front-end website that renders a list of documents, queried by order. You might not want reorders to be made live until you explicitly publish them.

Collections without drafts and orderable joins retain their existing behavior.

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payload-e2e-before.mp4

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payload-e2e-after.mp4

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PP-Tom commented Aug 20, 2026

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I personally think this may confuse clients, if they reorder a few documents, they now have to track which documents they have moved to remember to publish. If they have changes in a few other documents too, going by "draft" alone isn't enough. It creates a visual distinction between how the list is ordered and how it's ordered on the frontend. This would then be something we have to explain.

Maybe orderable needs to become a true for defaults, or an object:

orderable: {
  publishOnReorder: true
}

for example.

EDIT:
We had a client with a document at 101 which they wanted to move, because of pagination being 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 - they couldn't move it. Dragging is a good UX for small list, but for a larger list I think something like this would be better:

payload-move.mp4

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