I changed my mind about a field type

Developing with Prismic
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Hi there,
I'm remodeling a custom type and want to use key text in place of title as field type for a specific information. For consistency reasons with the overall naming conventions within my app I want to replace the field using the existing api id. Is there any possibility to do so?

I do not care if I lose historic data in the process.

Thanks for any advice
Joachim

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Hello Joachim,

Welcome to the Prismic forum.

You can definitely replace a field with the same API ID. First, you need to delete the old field and then create a new field with the same API ID. In this process, you will not lose data too.

Let me know if you have any other doubt.

Thanks,

Priyanka

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Hello Prinyanka,

thank you for your advice. This is exactly what I had tried before reaching out. But while this appeared to work in the backend the client still gets the old field's contents (which are mostly empty). None of my edits I did after replacing the field appear in the frontend.
Sorry I should have described my poit better i the original posting.

Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

Regards Joachim

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Hello Prinyanka,

I am very sorry. It turned out the problem had to do with caching in my development setup. I had to restart in order to get the proper data.

Thank you for your help
Joachim

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