API to get custom field value from a task

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I’m testing the ‘tasks’ API to return all details for a specific task by Task ID, and while my custom field values get returned within the response, I’m having a difficult time parsing out a specific custom field value. Is there any easy way to do this, or another API to use that would get a specific custom field value, either based on the name the of the field or the gid?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

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Hi,

The API will return the task full record including custom fields with values, options etc (as long as you have the right opt_fields) and then you need to do the filtering on the client/server side, by extracting the field you are looking for. In my case for example in nodeJS I do something like task.custom_fields.find(f => f.gid === this.fieldIAmLookingForGid)

Does this help?

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