## Context
Part 1 of migrating gridPosition in favor of typed position
FE should now always send both values to the BE and use both.
Next steps:
- Update the backend to enforce and validate the new position field + DB
migrations gridPositon -> position (type: GRID)
- Cleanup frontend usage
- Cleanup backend
## Description
- Add `isHeadless` field to `FrontComponent` entity so front components
can run without rendering UI in the command menu
- Introduce headless front component mounting logic:
`HeadlessFrontComponentMountRoot` at the application root,
`useMountHeadlessFrontComponent`, and `useUnmountHeadlessFrontComponent`
hooks to mount/unmount headless components
- Expand the SDK with new action components (`Action`, `ActionLink`,
`ActionOpenSidePanelPage`) and host communication functions
(`openSidePanelPage`, `unmountFrontComponent`)
- Move `CommandMenuPages` type to twenty-shared so the SDK can reference
it for side panel navigation
## Video QA
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4f9e3bb1-fcd1-42be-b3f4-a97e80c2add2
# What this PR does
Overall naming `universal` versus `flat` is not always the most updated
and so on
Will make a big cleaning tour after I've finished the whole migration
Migrating all `view` and ( filter fields etc ) `field` `object` `index`
to the universal pattern on all `services`, `builder` and `runner`
levels
## Universal and flat optimistic tooling
`addUniversalFlatEntityToUniversalFlatEntityAndRelatedEntityMapsThroughMutationOrThrow`
and its delete counterpart maintain the consistency of
`UniversalFlatEntityMaps` when an entity is created or removed. Beyond
inserting/removing the entity from its own maps, they walk through
`ALL_UNIVERSAL_METADATA_RELATIONS` to update the **aggregator arrays**
on related parent entities — the add appends the new entity's
`universalIdentifier` to the parent's aggregator (e.g. a new viewField's
identifier gets appended to its parent view's
`viewFieldUniversalIdentifiers`), and the delete filters it out. This
keeps the maps in sync so that diff computations and relation lookups
remain accurate throughout the migration building process.
## ALL_UNIVERSAL_METADATA_RELATIONS
`ALL_UNIVERSAL_METADATA_RELATIONS` is the universal counterpart of
`ALL_METADATA_RELATIONS`. It maps each metadata entity to its
many-to-one and one-to-many relations using universal foreign keys
(`*UniversalIdentifier`) instead of database IDs (`*Id`). This allows
migration actions to reference related entities in a workspace-agnostic
way. Relations that are workspace-specific (e.g. `workspace`,
`dataSource`, `userWorkspace`) are set to `null` and skipped during
resolution.
## `workspaceMigrationCreateIdEnrichment`
Reserved to API metadata ( will be able to validate at app installation
lvl )
- Workspace migration `create` actions now carry an optional `id` (and
`fieldIdByUniversalIdentifier` for object/field actions) so that
caller-provided IDs flow through the entire build-validate-run pipeline.
- New `enrichCreateWorkspaceMigrationActionsWithIds` utility resolves
`universalIdentifier → id` mappings after the builder runs and injects
them into the migration actions before the runner persists entities.
- Runner action handlers use the provided IDs instead of generating new
UUIDs, enabling deterministic entity creation for synchronization
workflows.
## `resolveUniversalUpdateRelationIdentifiersToIds`
`resolveUniversalUpdateRelationIdentifiersToIds` converts universal
identifiers (workspace-agnostic, stable keys) in a migration update
payload into concrete database UUIDs, so the update can be applied to a
specific workspace.
It iterates over the many-to-one relations defined in
`ALL_UNIVERSAL_METADATA_RELATIONS` for the given entity type, replaces
each `*UniversalIdentifier` property with its corresponding `*Id` by
looking up the target entity in `allFlatEntityMaps`, and throws if a
non-null identifier can't be resolved.
Used by all `update` action handlers in
`transpileUniversalActionToFlatAction`, avoiding duplicated resolution
logic across handlers.
## What this PR does not
- Migrating twenty-standard declaration to universal
- Migrating all the inputs transpilers to universal
- Migrating all metadata to be fully universal ( we still need to
de-scope the type of all of them and refactor their validator very close
)
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Co-authored-by: Charles Bochet <charles@twenty.com>
# Introduction
Requiring the spreaded `__universal` record that aggregates all the
universal identifier ( relations fk and aggregators ) of an entity to
its root
It's blockin for https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pull/17687 to be
finalized because if we don't we would have to migrated all related
entities at once in order for them to always have the universal
properties
## `resolveEntityRelationUniversalIdentifiers`
Introduced `resolveEntityRelationUniversalIdentifiers` a centralized
utility that resolves foreign key IDs to universal identifiers using
ALL_METADATA_RELATIONS metadata. It provides strict typing for both
input (foreign keys) and output (universal identifiers), with
nullability dynamically inferred from entity relation types.
Strictly and dynamically typed for both output and input
To do so added a new type and const/runtime grain to
ALL_METADATA_RELATIONS `isNullable`to many-to-one entries, derived from
the entity relation property types. And fixed incorrectly typed typeorm
entities
### Usage
```ts
const {
availabilityObjectMetadataUniversalIdentifier,
frontComponentUniversalIdentifier,
} = resolveEntityRelationUniversalIdentifiers({
metadataName: 'commandMenuItem',
foreignKeyValues: {
availabilityObjectMetadataId:
createCommandMenuItemInput.availabilityObjectMetadataId,
frontComponentId: createCommandMenuItemInput.frontComponentId,
},
flatEntityMaps: { flatObjectMetadataMaps, flatFrontComponentMaps },
});
```
# Introduction
In this PR we're refactoring the `FlatEntity` type to become a superset
of the `UniversalFlatEntity`.
Right now we're storing all the extra properties in `__universal`
property, at some point it might just be sibling to other entity and we
might rely on the `propertiesToCompare` constants and TypeScript
allowing passing a superset type into a smaller subset type
## FromTo utils
The entity to flat entity method now computes the universal information,
standardized a typing and pattern to do
## Example
Also strictly type
```ts
"bbb019ea-6205-498c-aea5-67bc53bce8a9": {
"workspaceId": "20202020-1c25-4d02-bf25-6aeccf7ea419",
"universalIdentifier": "20202020-d111-4d11-8d11-da5ab0a11002",
"applicationId": "d01b010d-b984-465b-b40b-370e954e5188",
"id": "bbb019ea-6205-498c-aea5-67bc53bce8a9",
"pageLayoutTabId": "791a512f-169f-4209-b731-aa86716668c6",
"title": "Deals by Company",
"type": "GRAPH",
"objectMetadataId": "9e14efea-df5b-4c0e-aba9-cfe455f32397",
"gridPosition": { "row": 0, "column": 6, "rowSpan": 6, "columnSpan": 6 },
"configuration": {
"color": "orange",
"orderBy": "FIELD_ASC",
"timezone": "UTC",
"displayLegend": true,
"displayDataLabel": false,
"showCenterMetric": true,
"configurationType": "PIE_CHART",
"firstDayOfTheWeek": 0,
"aggregateOperation": "COUNT",
"groupBySubFieldName": "name",
"groupByFieldMetadataId": "6673ff18-63d2-47a1-8f85-2b9b09ca27a5",
"aggregateFieldMetadataId": "8d64ee41-5dd4-4de6-945a-7c0c18399715"
},
"createdAt": "2026-01-28T14:08:52.140Z",
"updatedAt": "2026-01-28T14:08:52.140Z",
"deletedAt": null,
"__universal": {
"universalIdentifier": "20202020-d111-4d11-8d11-da5ab0a11002",
"applicationUniversalIdentifier": "20202020-64aa-4b6f-b003-9c74b97cee20",
"pageLayoutTabUniversalIdentifier": "20202020-d011-4d11-8d11-da5ab0a01001",
"objectMetadataUniversalIdentifier": "20202020-9549-49dd-b2b2-883999db8938",
"gridPosition": {
"row": 0,
"column": 6,
"rowSpan": 6,
"columnSpan": 6
},
"configuration": {
"color": "orange",
"orderBy": "FIELD_ASC",
"timezone": "UTC",
"displayLegend": true,
"displayDataLabel": false,
"showCenterMetric": true,
"configurationType": "PIE_CHART",
"firstDayOfTheWeek": 0,
"aggregateOperation": "COUNT",
"groupBySubFieldName": "name",
"aggregateFieldMetadataUniversalIdentifier": "20202020-d01a-4131-8a31-f123456789ab",
"groupByFieldMetadataUniversalIdentifier": "20202020-cbac-457e-b565-adece5fc815f"
}
}
},
```
# Introduction
Creating a `UniversalFlatEntityFrom` that strips out all the relation
and foreignKey properties in order to replace them with
`UniversalIdentifier` suffix
This data type will be major for the workspace migration workspace
agnostic refactor
## Chore
- renamed `flat-entity.type` to `flat-entity-from.type.ts` ( more
accurate to exported module )
- create static test type over the field metadata entity on quite
complex utils as both coverage and documentation
## Example
Here's an example of a `UniversalFlatEntityFrom<FieldMetadataEntity>`
```ts
const universalFlatFieldMetadata: UniversalFlatFieldMetadata<FieldMetadataType.RELATION> = {
// Base properties (from FieldMetadataEntity, excluding relations and applicationId)
universalIdentifier: '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001',
applicationUniversalIdentifier: '5800681c-088e-4e2b-9fc3-bcf6e8ec2051',
type: FieldMetadataType.RELATION,
name: 'firstName',
label: 'First Name',
defaultValue: null,
description: 'The first name of the person',
icon: 'IconUser',
standardOverrides: null,
options: null,
settings: {
relationType: RelationType.ONE_TO_MANY,
},
isCustom: false,
isActive: true,
isSystem: false,
isUIReadOnly: false,
isNullable: true,
isUnique: false,
isLabelSyncedWithName: true,
morphId: null,
// Date properties cast to string
createdAt: '2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z',
updatedAt: '2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z',
// ManyToOne relation universal identifiers (from FieldMetadataEntity relations)
relationTargetFieldMetadataUniversalIdentifier:
'550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440012',
relationTargetObjectMetadataUniversalIdentifier:
'550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440013',
// Join column universal identifiers (foreignKey -> universalIdentifier)
objectMetadataUniversalIdentifier: '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440010',
// OneToMany relation universal identifiers (array of related entity identifiers)
viewFieldUniversalIdentifiers: [
'550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440020',
'550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440021',
],
viewFilterUniversalIdentifiers: ['550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440030'],
kanbanAggregateOperationViewUniversalIdentifiers: [],
calendarViewUniversalIdentifiers: [],
mainGroupByFieldMetadataViewUniversalIdentifiers: [],
};
```
## Settings
Will hop on the settings typing next. Might not be dynamic but
declarative though
As part of the extensibility effort, we are introducing a new engine
entity called "Front Component". This represents a dynamic react
component that will be rendered in CommandMenu actions or in PageLayout
widgets
This PR introduce the entity and all the necessary boilerplate to make
it syncable and cachable in the engine
Weiko