From d1e80815d56533c01e2aec0f5520ad04b1fb5ce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elian Doran <contact@eliandoran.me>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:50:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(board/relation): add support for more APIs

---
 apps/client/src/services/attributes.ts        | 18 ++++++++++++
 .../src/widgets/collections/board/api.ts      | 28 +++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/client/src/services/attributes.ts b/apps/client/src/services/attributes.ts
index 13011b7a6..7fad04947 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/services/attributes.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/services/attributes.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,23 @@ function removeOwnedLabelByName(note: FNote, labelName: string) {
     return false;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Removes a relation identified by its name from the given note, if it exists. Note that the relation must be owned, i.e.
+ * it will not remove inherited attributes.
+ *
+ * @param note the note from which to remove the relation.
+ * @param relationName the name of the relation to remove.
+ * @returns `true` if an attribute was identified and removed, `false` otherwise.
+ */
+function removeOwnedRelationByName(note: FNote, relationName: string) {
+    const label = note.getOwnedRelation(relationName);
+    if (label) {
+        removeAttributeById(note.noteId, label.attributeId);
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
 /**
  * Sets the attribute of the given note to the provided value if its truthy, or removes the attribute if the value is falsy.
  * For an attribute with an empty value, pass an empty string instead.
@@ -129,5 +146,6 @@ export default {
     setAttribute,
     removeAttributeById,
     removeOwnedLabelByName,
+    removeOwnedRelationByName,
     isAffecting
 };
diff --git a/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/board/api.ts b/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/board/api.ts
index 6543bafd9..52f7a6d4a 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/board/api.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/board/api.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { BulkAction } from "@triliumnext/commons";
 import { BoardViewData } from ".";
 import appContext from "../../../components/app_context";
 import FNote from "../../../entities/fnote";
@@ -83,13 +84,11 @@ export default class BoardApi {
     async removeColumn(column: string) {
         // Remove the value from the notes.
         const noteIds = this.byColumn?.get(column)?.map(item => item.note.noteId) || [];
-        await executeBulkActions(noteIds, [
-            {
-                name: "deleteLabel",
-                labelName: this.statusAttribute
-            }
-        ]);
 
+        const action: BulkAction = this.isRelationMode
+            ? { name: "deleteRelation", relationName: this.statusAttribute }
+            : { name: "deleteLabel", labelName: this.statusAttribute }
+        await executeBulkActions(noteIds, [ action ]);
         this.viewConfig.columns = (this.viewConfig.columns ?? []).filter(col => col.value !== column);
         this.saveConfig(this.viewConfig);
     }
@@ -98,13 +97,10 @@ export default class BoardApi {
         const noteIds = this.byColumn?.get(oldValue)?.map(item => item.note.noteId) || [];
 
         // Change the value in the notes.
-        await executeBulkActions(noteIds, [
-            {
-                name: "updateLabelValue",
-                labelName: this.statusAttribute,
-                labelValue: newValue
-            }
-        ]);
+        const action: BulkAction = this.isRelationMode
+            ? { name: "updateRelationTarget", relationName: this.statusAttribute, targetNoteId: newValue }
+            : { name: "updateLabelValue", labelName: this.statusAttribute, labelValue: newValue }
+        await executeBulkActions(noteIds, [ action ]);
 
         // Rename the column in the persisted data.
         for (const column of this.viewConfig.columns || []) {
@@ -181,7 +177,11 @@ export default class BoardApi {
     removeFromBoard(noteId: string) {
         const note = froca.getNoteFromCache(noteId);
         if (!note) return;
-        return attributes.removeOwnedLabelByName(note, this.statusAttribute);
+        if (this.isRelationMode) {
+            return attributes.removeOwnedRelationByName(note, this.statusAttribute);
+        } else {
+            return attributes.removeOwnedLabelByName(note, this.statusAttribute);
+        }
     }
 
     async moveWithinBoard(noteId: string, sourceBranchId: string, sourceIndex: number, targetIndex: number, sourceColumn: string, targetColumn: string) {