Creating draft documents in Sanity client via mutation

Hi is there a way when using the client to create a new document via mutation, that the document is created as a draft instead of automatically published?

The goal is that the created document can be reviewed by someone before its published

Read through this, maybe you'll find some clues: https://www.sanity.io/docs/custom-workflows

Cool so what I did was set the

_id

property on the document in the

client.create

object to

drafts.

which prefixed the generated id with drafts. and that gave me the desired result. Is there any downside to this approach?

Hi Andre, as far as I know it’s a valid way of getting prefixed, unique IDs — draft IDs in this case. You’d use a similar approach with the mutations API. I guess you’ve confirmed that

drafts.

gets removed when you publish the relevant document? 🙂
P.S. Thanks Chris for suggesting this approach!
👍

Yes and thanks for the follow up

I ran into a little snag with this, might be a bug with sanity not sure.. https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity/issues/1865

Hi Zane! You’re doing a great job reporting these, although I do wish the Studio would treat you a bit better 😉 Thanks for flagging this one. When you say ‘click from the dashboard’, are you referring to an intent link in a dashboard widget?