## Summary
Today the avatar/icon shown for a record is hardcoded per object —
Company pulls a favicon from its domain link, Person uses `avatarUrl`,
etc. This PR replaces that hardcoding with a generic, data-driven
abstraction based on a configurable **image identifier field** on each
object's metadata (mirroring the existing **label identifier** concept).
An object's image identifier can point to:
- a **`FILES`** field → the uploaded image is used directly (rounded
avatar), or
- a **`LINKS`** field → a favicon is derived from the primary URL via
the Twenty icons service (squared avatar), gated by
`ALLOW_REQUESTS_TO_TWENTY_ICONS`.
This lets any object type (Opportunity, a custom "Listing", etc.) define
its own avatar/icon without code changes, and makes the field
configurable/overridable for standard objects.
## ❓ Open question: also allow `TEXT` → direct image URL?
Right now the image identifier is restricted to `FILES` (uploaded file)
and `LINKS` (favicon). We deliberately left out `TEXT` → **direct image
URL** (e.g. an imported/synced photo URL stored in a text field).
There's precedent for it — Person's avatar was originally a `TEXT`
`avatarUrl`, and WorkspaceMember still is — and it's unambiguous (a
`TEXT` field has no favicon-vs-image ambiguity, and selecting it as the
image identifier is itself the declaration of intent). It's a small,
clean extension:
- add `TEXT` to the allowed image-identifier types,
- add an explicit `TEXT → raw URL` case
- `getAvatarType`: `TEXT → rounded`.
Caveats: it relies on admin assertion that the text values are image
URLs (no data-level guarantee), and external image URLs load third-party
content in the browser (IP-leak/hotlinking, same as favicons — a
proxy/cache would be the more robust long-term answer).
### ✅ Resolution
Decision: **we will not support `TEXT` as an image identifier.** Image
identifiers stay restricted to `FILES` and `LINKS`, and any other type
fails closed (returns no avatar) on both the frontend and backend.
Instead, the legacy items that still rely on a `TEXT` avatar — Person's
deprecated `avatarUrl` and WorkspaceMember's `avatarUrl` — will be
migrated to `FILE` fields in a follow-up PR. Until then, WorkspaceMember
remains an exception (its `avatarUrl` still resolves through the
existing CorePicture path), and legacy Person `avatarUrl` values that
haven't been migrated will show initials placeholders.
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Makes `twenty-ui`'s `Avatar` render the `avatarUrl` it receives instead
of building it from `window._env_`/`window.location` at module load, so
the library no longer depends on the app environment. URL resolution
moves to `twenty-front` via a `getAbsoluteImageUrl` helper applied at
the call sites.
Part of making twenty-ui a standalone library.
# Introduction
In this PR we've migrated `twenty-shared` from a `vite` app
[libary-mode](https://vite.dev/guide/build#library-mode) to a
[preconstruct](https://preconstruct.tools/) "atomic" application ( in
the future would like to introduce preconstruct to handle of all our
atomic dependencies such as `twenty-emails` `twenty-ui` etc it will be
integrated at the monorepo's root directly, would be to invasive in the
first, starting incremental via `twenty-shared`)
For more information regarding the motivations please refer to nor:
- https://github.com/twentyhq/core-team-issues/issues/587
-
https://github.com/twentyhq/core-team-issues/issues/281#issuecomment-2630949682
close https://github.com/twentyhq/core-team-issues/issues/589
close https://github.com/twentyhq/core-team-issues/issues/590
## How to test
In order to ease the review this PR will ship all the codegen at the
very end, the actual meaning full diff is `+2,411 −114`
In order to migrate existing dependent packages to `twenty-shared` multi
barrel new arch you need to run in local:
```sh
yarn tsx packages/twenty-shared/scripts/migrateFromSingleToMultiBarrelImport.ts && \
npx nx run-many -t lint --fix -p twenty-front twenty-ui twenty-server twenty-emails twenty-shared twenty-zapier
```
Note that `migrateFromSingleToMultiBarrelImport` is idempotent, it's atm
included in the PR but should not be merged. ( such as codegen will be
added before merging this script will be removed )
## Misc
- related opened issue preconstruct
https://github.com/preconstruct/preconstruct/issues/617
## Closed related PR
- https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pull/11028
- https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pull/10993
- https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pull/10960
## Upcoming enhancement: ( in others dedicated PRs )
- 1/ refactor generate barrel to export atomic module instead of `*`
- 2/ generate barrel own package with several files and tests
- 3/ Migration twenty-ui the same way
- 4/ Use `preconstruct` at monorepo global level
## Conclusion
As always any suggestions are welcomed !
# Context
To enable search records sorting by ts_rank_cd / ts_rank, we have
decided to add a new search resolver serving `GlobalSearchRecordDTO`.
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- [x] Test to add - work in progress
closes https://github.com/twentyhq/core-team-issues/issues/357
Abdul Rahman
