Hi, I’m using the write api to migrate an entire blog from datoCMS to Builder. Currently, I have already migrated the authors and categories (there are separated models). When migrating the entire blog post, how could I write the ‘authors’ field (it’s a list of references to the author model) and …

Hi @emiliano great question. So a reference would need to include the type, id and model. For for example, I have a demo space that has blog-article models that include a reference to an author: https://cdn.builder.io/api/v2/content/blog-article?apiKey=e37b966ec695434bb21e97442a4a9f46&fields=id,n…

Thanks for answering. So I would just pass an object like: '@type': '@builder.io/core:Reference', id: id, model: 'blog-category-model' Because this isn’t working for me… It has to be a json? or an object? I’ve also tried like this but it isn’t working… { '@type': '@builder.io/core:R…

Hi @TimG , could you help me with this? Thanks! Really appreciate your answers and you are a big help for me

Hi @emiliano when you say it doesn’t work for you what does that mean? Is it writing the content to builder but without the correct reference? Is it giving an error? Do you have any examples in your space? What is the API key of the space you are working in , I didnt see any spaces with the releva…

Hey, it writes all the content correct, except for the reference… the category field stays empty (avoid the authors field in the image) [Screen Shot 2022-03-17 at 21.57.16] thanks!

Hmm… I tried running with hard coded values, and it worked for me: Builder.io: Drag and drop page builder and CMS Hope you don’t mind, we can delete once testing is done. What value are you passing as the ID? It should be the content id, so for the General category, the ID should be 1352e4da86234d4…

[image] TimG: 1352e4da86234d4b9086eb77a1bfbedb Thanks for all your help! I finally could do it!

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emiliano March 18, 2022, 7:37pm 9

I also opened another question here about the same but with lists type… I couldn’t write them with the API, is there any similar secret for those? thanks

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