Feature #33648
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Get possible_values of custom fields for non-admin users
Description
In #11159 support for getting the definition of custom fields was added to the API. This call is only available to admin users. Problem is for custom fields with List-Format (and I guess with KeyValuePairs), as a non-admin-user it's not possible to retrieve the "possible_values" or enumerate key-values.
I'm wondering if this could be added, maybe as an enhancement of #33301?
Updated by Johannes Bauer over 4 years ago
I'm having this exact issue and it pretty much renders key/value pairs useless. My data exports only contain internal IDs, which are completely meaningless. Over the Web interface there is obviously a way to retrieve which value is hidden behind an intenal ID, but there's no way to retrieve this via the API.
What this means is that when I export data over the REST API, I only get arbitrary database IDs (which may change when reinstalling a new instance). The only workaround for now is to not use these field types or to have a hard mapping somewhere that just magically 'knows' what database IDs correspond to which field value (yuck!).
It would be greatly appreciated if there were a way to retrieve what the actual value is (just dump them in the journals would work! no additional call needed) so that no admin privileges are needed.
Updated by Kelvin Lomberg 2 days ago
We're having the same issue. Would be good to have this feature without needing hard-coded workarounds, so +1 here.