Status gating for heroes

[patinen]

✨ Enhancement Description

• What is it?: Add a status field to the heroes collection in Directus (Published / Draft / Archived) and update heroApi to only fetch Published heroes by default (Draft/Archived should not be publicly visible).
• Why improve it?: We currently have empty or unfinished hero pages in production because heroes are being created as placeholders (slug/name only) while descriptions, images and other required fields are still missing. Status gating prevents unfinished content from appearing on the live site.

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🌟 Benefits of the Enhancement

• User Experience: No more blank or incomplete hero pages in production. Users only see fully prepared (Published) heroes.
• Project Impact: Establishes a clear and structured content workflow: create heroes as Draft, complete all required fields, then publish when ready. Reduces confusion and ensures no unfinished sections are exposed on the public site.

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🛠️ Proposed Implementation

• Technical Details:

  • Directus
    • Add heroes.status as a Select/Dropdown field (example in the news data model, attached screenshot)
    • Options: Published, Draft, Archived
    • Default: Draft
    • Use a “Status” UI similar to the provided screenshot for clarity
  • Frontend (heroApi)
    • Include status in FIELDS (for consistency and debugging)
    • Add a filter to all public hero queries so they return only status == "Published" by default:
      • filter[status][_eq]=Published
    • Ensure this applies to:
      • getHeroBySlug
      • getAllHeroes
      • getHeroGroups
      • fetchHeroBySlug
      • fetchAllHeroes

• Implementation Plan:

  1. Directus schema
     • Create status field on heroes
     • Set default to Draft
     • Configure allowed values: Published / Draft / Archived
  2. API query updates
     • Update buildParams() to always append filter[status][_eq]=Published
     • Add status to FIELDS
  3. Validation
     • Verify existing placeholder heroes remain hidden until marked Published
     • Confirm getHeroGroups grouping works correctly with filtered results
     • Ensure getHeroBySlug returns undefined for Draft/Archived heroes (so the UI can render 404/NotFound appropriately)

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📎 Additional Information

• Mockups/Examples: Directus Status dropdown UI should match the attached screenshot: default Draft, editors switch to Published only when content is complete.
• Notes:
  • This enhancement enforces a clean separation between work-in-progress content and publicly visible content.