Presentation fields in CMA

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Hi Dato community,

We are “again” working on a plugin and I wanted to know if there is a way to retrieve the Presentation fields available in a Model:

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Today we are using find method with the API client : await client.items.find(recordId);

Is there a way to retrieve these fields from the model we are searching for?

Thanks for your help.

Best

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Hello @ghislain.flandin

You can fetch this using this endpoint: https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-management-api/resources/field/self

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A little more explanation: That metadata is associated with a field (so it’s fields.find()), rather than getting the actual content data associated with a record (which is what items.find() does).

The field ID is that GHOCe8r... string in the upper right of the dialog. It’s also in the URL when you edit a specific field. You can also use the CMA to list all fields of a model.

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Thank you guys for your explanation …
I’ve just made a quick test with hardcoded value:

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const field = await client.fields.find('ZgLZT16CQ_OCR0Dxxxxx'); // xxx is just not to share it :)
console.log(field);

I’m getting the following error:

linkField.tsx:108 Uncaught (in promise) Error: GET https://site-api.datocms.com/fields/ZgLZT16CQ_OCR0Dxxxxx: 404 

[
  {
    "id": "302048",
    "type": "api_error",
    "attributes": {
      "code": "NOT_FOUND",
      "details": {}
    }
  }
]

Do I miss something?

Thanks for your precious help guys!

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@ghislain.flandin, I am SO sorry. I hastily added to Marcelo’s answer without having looked at your screenshot in sufficient detail.

It should be itemTypes.find() for what you want, not fields.find().

https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-management-api/resources/item-type/self

And its props title_field, image_preview_field, and excerpt_field are in there: https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-management-api/resources/item-type

Sorry about that! The dialogs for editing a field and editing a model look very similar, and we both made a mistake before answering you!

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Thank you so much, works fine.

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