Objective:

• Returning more Custom Fields than are in my account

Environment:

• Clio Manage
• Clio Manage API

Additional Information:

Custom fields can be Soft-Deleted, which keeps the data intact for those custom fields but prevents the custom filed from being used moving forward. By default, even soft-deleted custom fields are returned when requesting all custom fields from an account.

If you wish to only return a list of active custom fields, you can use the "deleted" query parameter and set it equal to "false"

Procedure:

The following custom field Get requests will return a different set of custom fields if there are any soft-deleted custom fields:

Will return all matter custom fields 

https:app.clio.com/api/v4/custom_fields?fields=id,name&parent_type=matter

Will return only non-deleted matter custom fields 

https:app.clio.com/api/v4/custom_fields?fields=id,name&parent_type=matter&deleted=false