Ever try to delete a CMS collection field and get "This field is currently used in Dynamic Template Settings. To delete this field, you'll need to remove any references to it first." Great, but where the heck are those references located?
This would help anyone who forgets where CMS fields are linked or when editing templates built by someone else.
Andrew Leyland
Earlier this year we announced a new connections manager that lets you see everywhere a collection is connected to your designs. Today we’re sharing some exciting improvements that make it even easier to find, view, and/or delete your CMS connections. Read all about it.
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The new connections manager doesn't work. You can delete all the connections but still there will be phantom "connections" that don't show up and webflow will not allow you to delete fields or give you any clue where the connections are, or even if they exist at all. I have 30 fields in this particular collection (the max allowed) and I can't move forward without deleting this field. But webflow will not allow me to do it and will not get back to me in customer service.
I ran into this issue and realized the field I was trying to delete was not linked on the page, but linked on the page settings in the meta description. Remember to check there, hope this helps someone!
I am not able to delete one of the fields in the CMS collection, i get the error "This field is currently used in Dynamic Template Settings. To delete this field, you'll need to remove any references to it first." But there is no reference to the field?
Collection name: Listings
Field: Short Description
https://guide-rei.webflow.io
just found this link, hope it's helpful: https://webflow.com/feature/connections-manager
Thank you! This is such a helpful function. We appreciate it!
Would save so much time.
I would still love to see this feature, as it would be highly useful on a number of levels. But in the meantime, I have to give a shout out to Webflow's excellent customer service team. After struggling with where to locate a needle (a multi-reference field) in a haystack (a collection template), we contacted Webflow's customer service, and they helped us locate the offending reference in the collection template so that we could delete it.
please do that urgently!!!
This has been my mayor frustration since a long time ago. I had this problem once (never found where the field was being referenced, so I just had to ignore it and get used to it).
Today it happened again with a new item, so I'm accumulating unused fields, which is quite bothersome. I hope this gets many votes.
This is one of those features that you don't realize that you need until you really need it, and then it's maddening not to be able to see a list of page slugs where you've inserted a particular CMS item when you need to refactor.
For our use case, I'd be fine getting this information via the API if that's something that would speed up the implementation of this feature. Being able to get a list of page templates and the dynamic references for that template would be extremely useful.
Paid for a template to save time and I'm now going on about 6 hours hunting for where these bindings are hidden. Debating if I should just restart from scratch.
If anyone has become a pro at this could you please take a look at my site and help me locate: https://preview.webflow.com/preview/enjoyable-edibles-com?utm_source=enjoyable-edibles-com&preview=4cf0e40785ce56ea6b0e460f8b107220
Please & Thank you!
This is a bigger problem then just knowing where. Yes, it may be helpful knowing for most cases. However, I have found one case where I had to create a new project and purchase hosting.
This is a bug that Webflow need to fix as it is wasting a lot of peoples time and money.
SInce the error message is triggered by the system having identified references to the target field somewhere, it would be trivial to display at least the name of the page where the reference has been found.
This could look like "This field is currently used by your {Name of Collection} Collection List on the site or/and inside your {Name of Collection Page} Collection Page. To delete this field, you'll need to remove any references to it first.
Yes! I'm working with templates and CANNOT find where the phantom "field is currently used". Please please please just allow us to delete fields and collections, even if it means the elements on the page will be disconnected. I've literally wasted 20 hours trying to hunt down references but I'm never able to find them all.
Yes please! Takes ages to find those (IF you end up finding them...)
This is a huge issue! I can't find where fields are used in the site that I'm building. Been scouring for hours...