Remote Field Classes
Read and write non-mapped data in a standardized format via Merge’s Unified API.
This feature is only available to customers on our Professional and Enterprise plans. View the Merge Plans to learn more.
Overview
Merge’s Remote Field Classes feature allows you to programmatically access additional fields that are not mapped to Merge’s Common Model fields. These non-mapped fields can be both standard fields on the third-party platform and custom fields on a Linked Account.
Remote Field Classes also surfaces metadata about each field, such as display name and type.
Merge will generally leave field values untouched, but will normalize values into a standardized format if necessary, such as DateTime fields.
How is this different from Remote Data and Field Mapping?
Remote Data is all the raw data from a model in the original format Merge received it in.
Field Mapping and Remote Field Classes both build on top of Remote Data to return fields in a normalized format:
- Field Mapping is best for reading fields from the third-party by mapping them to a Merge Common Model
- Remote Field Classes is best for accessing highly variable custom fields and writing those fields back to your users’ third-party platform
Supported categories
Remote Field Classes are currently available for:
- Accounting Beta
- CRM Beta
- Ticketing Beta
Please reach out to your Merge contact if you are interested in other categories.