Autosave combined with `unique: true` crashes “Create New”

[robinscholz]

Describe the Bug

When a collection has a field with unique: true and autosave is enabled on the collection, the /create route stops working in some specific cases.

Link to the code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/magicasaservice/payload-autosave-bug

Reproduction Steps

1. Create new post
2. Do not fill out anything for the slug, wait for it to autosave
3. Exit the newly created post
4. Try creating another post
5. The screen is now empty, the console has a verbose error:

key not found: error:valueMustBeUnique
key not found: error:followingFieldsInvalid

Which area(s) are affected?

area: ui

Environment Info

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[JarrodMFlesch]

@robinscholz You linked a clone of our repo, where should I start to repro this?

[robinscholz]

@robinscholz You linked a clone of our repo, where should I start to repro this?

Followed your guidelines and put the respective fields in the test/_community folder.

[robinscholz]

If that’s not sufficient, I’ll happily create a standalone payload app with a database and a more manual setup 🙂 Let me know!

[JarrodMFlesch]

oh maybe you just forgot to commit your change! Here is the file I see: https://github.com/magicasaservice/payload-autosave-bug/blob/main/test/_community/collections/Posts/index.ts

[robinscholz]

@JarrodMFlesch Sorry, forgot to push 🤦🏼

[lctdotone]

I'm having the same issue v3.71.

[robinscholz]

@JarrodMFlesch Have you had a chance to look this?

[shobhitsinghal624]

We are also facing this issue. Is there a known workaround?

[aevarOrigo]

same issue here, did anyone solve this?