Components: Collection ID as parameter to fetch collection with given ID

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Hi,

Just saw the collection id type in the parameters of the new components. But how can we use it?
I need to fetch a collection in a workflow with the given collection id, but the action fetch collection can’t be bound to a dynamic variable/parameter.

Is there a way to fetch a collection with the collection id?

Tested some stiff with wwLib but didn’t find a solution… there is the wwLib.wwCollection.fetchCollection but how to use it?

Thanks a lot,

Chris

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i am stupid =)

wwLib.wwCollection.fetchCollection(“collection_id”) worked.

But is it save to use for future changes?

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Hi @erbteilung :wave:

Thanks for taking the time to share the solution!

I don’t know. Let me ask the tech team and get back to you on that one :slight_smile:

FYI, we plan on doing a big revamp of the developer documentation in 2024 so these things should be clearer in the future

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Hey,
its one of our public method, so it is safe.
We may during the revamp rename/move it, but this will be with progressive deprecation warning and guided migration :).

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Thank you thats great!