Improving Author selector

[PothieuG]

Description

PBI - #2152

• Dropdown creation with SSW authors
• Switch mode for external author
• Adam Cogan set by default

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2026-04-13_14-35-20.mp4

[PothieuG]

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[Aibono1225]

We may need an image field for the author selection. Because otherwise non-ssw people cannot put their image photo

[Aibono1225]

I went to https://app-sswrules-staging-pr-2583.azurewebsites.net/rules/admin#/~/rules/reply-done
and I saw the MDX is broken on staging:

Any idea why the workflow Check-MDX didn't work? 🤔

[Aibono1225]

Let's add some validation for the field:

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Updates the TinaCMS rule editing experience to make author selection easier by defaulting to Adam Cogan, supporting selection from the SSW employee list, and allowing non-SSW authors with optional custom profile images.

Changes:

• Update the Rule “authors” schema to default to Adam Cogan and add an optional img field for non-SSW author profile images.
• Add custom TinaCMS fields: an SSW-employee searchable author selector and a URL field that becomes read-only for SSW People links.
• Extend Tina GraphQL queries to include the new authors.img field.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 6 comments.

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File	Description
tina/tina-lock.json	Updates Tina schema for authors (default Adam Cogan, adds img).
tina/queries/queries.gql	Fetches authors.img in rule queries.
tina/fields/AuthorUrlField.tsx	New custom URL field with read-only behavior for SSW People links.
tina/fields/AuthorSelector.tsx	New searchable SSW employee dropdown + non-SSW manual entry mode.
tina/collection/rule.tsx	Wires the new custom fields into the Rule collection and adds validation.

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[PothieuG]

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[PothieuG]

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[Aibono1225]

@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

[Copilot]

@copilot resolve the merge conflicts in this pull request

Merge conflicts resolved in commit 1924246. Took origin/main's tina-lock.json (TinaCMS 2.2.5) as the base and applied our schema changes (img field and Adam Cogan default) on top of it.

I went to https://app-sswrules-staging-pr-2583.azurewebsites.net/rules/admin#/~/rules/reply-done
and I saw the MDX is broken on staging:
<img width="2804" height="1528" alt="image" src="https://gith...

The MDX breaking on staging was caused by the tina-lock.json being out of sync — the img field was added to the schema but the lock file wasn't regenerated against the latest TinaCMS 2.2.5. This is now fixed by the merge commit 1924246 which properly combines both the TinaCMS 2.2.5 update from main and our schema changes.

Let's add some validation for the field:

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URL validation for both the url and img fields is already in place — it uses new URL() to validate proper URL syntax and rejects values like foo.bar that don't have a valid protocol (e.g. http:// or https://). The validation was added as part of commit 2889428. Note that direct file edits (outside TinaCMS admin) bypass this client-side validation by design.