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Initial value template with current user

By Knut Melvær

Use data for the current logged in user as initial values in a new document

initialValueTemplates.js

// initialValueTemplates.js

import T from '@sanity/base/initial-value-template-builder'
import userStore from 'part:@sanity/base/user'

export default {
  ...T.defaults,
  T.template({
    id: 'newsStory',
    title: 'News story',
    schemaType: 'newsStory',
    value: async () => {
      const {name, id} = await userStore.getUser('me')
      return {
        author: {
          name,
          id,
          _type: 'author'
        },
      }
    }
  })
}

/*
Shape of the user object from userStore.getUser('me'):
{
  "id": "<user-id>",
  "name": "Your Name",
  "email": "your@email.com",
  "profileImage": "https://url.to.loginprovider/image",
  "role": "<project-role>",
}
*/

author.js

export default {
  name: 'author',
  type: 'object',
  title: 'Author',
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'name',
      type: 'string',
      title: 'Full name'
    },
    {
      name: 'id',
      type: 'string',
      title: 'User ID',
      readOnly: true,
      description: `This author's user ID. Used for workflow scripts and similar.`
    }
  ]
}

This example shows how to use the userStore to fetch the logged-in user, and use the data from the user object to populate an author field using the Initial Value Templates API.

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