# How to access to a multi referenced field?

**URL:** <https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/how-to-access-to-a-multi-referenced-field/26513>\
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**Tags:** code, question\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/how-to-access-to-a-multi-referenced-field/26513 "2020-04-15T22:23:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![clovisgonon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/clovisgonon/32/18258_2.png) [@clovisgonon](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/clovisgonon)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/how-to-access-to-a-multi-referenced-field/26513/1 "2020-04-15T22:23:04Z")

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Hello,

I have a Multi referenced field in my collection database but I can’t access it from dataset.  
But also in code I am not able to see the property name, when console.log(it)  
I should able to see even an array of \_id or directly the object referenced.

Could you please explain me why? Do you have a workaround?

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**Author:** ![givemeawhisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/givemeawhisky/32/5383_2.png) [@givemeawhisky](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/givemeawhisky)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/how-to-access-to-a-multi-referenced-field/26513/2 "2020-04-16T01:13:29Z")

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Have you read the Wix Support pages about using reference fields?  
[https://support.wix.com/en/article/referencing-multiple-items-in-one-database-field](https://support.wix.com/en/article/referencing-multiple-items-in-one-database-field)  
[https://support.wix.com/en/article/displaying-content-from-multiple-database-collections-using-reference-fields](https://support.wix.com/en/article/displaying-content-from-multiple-database-collections-using-reference-fields)  
[https://support.wix.com/en/article/working-with-multiple-item-reference-fields](https://support.wix.com/en/article/working-with-multiple-item-reference-fields)

Also, use the search function on this forum as there are many previous posts about this that could be of help to you here.  
[https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/reference-fields-with-multi-items](https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/reference-fields-with-multi-items)  
[https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/retrieving-multiple-item-reference-field-using-code](https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/retrieving-multiple-item-reference-field-using-code)  
[https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/query-using-a-multi-reference-field](https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/query-using-a-multi-reference-field)  
[https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/using-include-function-with-multi-reference-fields](https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/using-include-function-with-multi-reference-fields)

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**Author:** ![clovisgonon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/clovisgonon/32/18258_2.png) [@clovisgonon](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/clovisgonon)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/how-to-access-to-a-multi-referenced-field/26513/3 "2020-04-16T08:47:42Z")

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OK So sadly You cannot use multi reference fields with datasets. Datasets do not fetch these fields in the current API. The only way you can access multi-reference fields is using the wix-data API. There are two ways to do this:

- Using the [queryReferenced()](https://www.wix.com/code/reference/wix-data.html#queryReferenced) function

```javascript
$w('#dataset6').onReady(() => {
    let currentUser = $w('#dataset6').getCurrentItem();
    console.log(currentUser);
    wixData.queryReferenced("Candidate", currentUser._id, 'languages')
    .then((results) => {
        console.log(results);
    })
});

```

- Using the query() function with include()

```javascript
$w('#dataset6').onReady(() => {
    let currentUser = $w('#dataset6').getCurrentItem();
    console.log(currentUser);
    wixData.query("Candidate")
    .eq('_id', currentUser._id)
    .include('languages')
    .find()
    .then((results) => {
        console.log(results.item[0].languages);
    })
});

```

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**Author:** ![robin-fried](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/robin-fried/32/1574_2.png) [@robin-fried](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/robin-fried)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/how-to-access-to-a-multi-referenced-field/26513/4 "2021-03-05T12:30:40Z")

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This is a very smart solution to an obvious shortcoming. Here you are using the dataset to filter and sort and the collection to pick up the references unattainable via the dataset api. Nice work.