# API error message that seems to be blatantly false? Help! **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs & Issues\ **Created:** [February 27, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/api-error-message-that-seems-to-be-blatantly-false-help/5914 "2024-02-27T23:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/carson/32/7503_2.png) [@carson](https://community.fibery.io/u/carson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/api-error-message-that-seems-to-be-blatantly-false-help/5914/1 "2024-02-27T23:54:52Z")
Making the following API call (creating a bunch of fields on a Database; I’ve omitted them because of the character limit) ```json [ { "command": "fibery.schema/batch", "args": { "commands": [ { "command": "schema.field/create", "args": { "fibery/holder-type": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "fibery/name": "FranDev/Fdppid", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/readonly?": false } } }, { "command": "schema.field/create", "args": { "fibery/holder-type": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "fibery/name": "FranDev/Name - First", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/readonly?": false } } }, ... { "command": "schema.field/create", "args": { "fibery/holder-type": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "fibery/name": "FranDev/Experience - Businesscount", "fibery/type": "fibery/int", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/readonly?": false } } }, ... ] } } ] ``` returns this error: ```json [ { "success": false, "result": { "name": "commands.error/schema-type-field-exists", "message": "'FranDev/Businesscount - Name' field for 'FranDev/Request For Consideration' database already exists.", "data": { "top": { "error/name": "commands.error/schema-type-field-exists", "error/reason": "Field already exists", "holder-type": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "field": "FranDev/Businesscount - Name" }, "cause": { "error/name": "commands.error/schema-type-field-exists", "error/reason": "Field already exists", "holder-type": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "field": "FranDev/Businesscount - Name" }, "error/reason": "Field already exists", "holder-type": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "field": "FranDev/Businesscount - Name" } } } ] ``` but the field definitely does not already exist. In the UI, or in a `fibery/schema.query` call I just made: ```json { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Request For Consideration", "fibery/fields": [ { "fibery/name": "fibery/id", "fibery/type": "fibery/uuid", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/secured?": false, "fibery/id?": true, "fibery/readonly?": true }, "fibery/id": "0878f7b5-4565-449e-8375-667230b61fa8", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "fibery/public-id", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/secured?": false, "fibery/public-id?": true, "fibery/readonly?": true }, "fibery/id": "b5c4803c-8ad1-4190-a5bb-b270b6f7efd2", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "fibery/creation-date", "fibery/type": "fibery/date-time", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/secured?": false, "fibery/creation-date?": true, "fibery/readonly?": true, "fibery/default-value": "$now" }, "fibery/id": "ec961503-d207-4a46-80cb-74ab815493d5", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "fibery/modification-date", "fibery/type": "fibery/date-time", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/modification-date?": true, "fibery/required?": true, "fibery/readonly?": true, "fibery/default-value": "$now", "fibery/secured?": false }, "fibery/id": "8bfa5638-2299-4685-9dc2-b06714c210ec", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "fibery/rank", "fibery/type": "fibery/rank", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/secured?": false }, "fibery/id": "ea3d21c2-87d1-49c8-a68e-9db33daff633", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "fibery/created-by", "fibery/type": "fibery/user", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/readonly?": true, "fibery/default-value": { "fibery/id": "$my-id" } }, "fibery/id": "3f7a9a49-cb7d-4f14-848b-8dd319b58e0f", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "Collaboration~Documents/References", "fibery/type": "Collaboration~Documents/Reference", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/collection?": true, "fibery/entity-component?": true }, "fibery/id": "9ecc15d9-fe5e-4223-b9d7-b0d8671cf7cd", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "Files/Files", "fibery/type": "fibery/file", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/collection?": true, "fibery/entity-component?": true, "ui/object-editor-order": 3 }, "fibery/id": "8ad999b3-b0d3-4d16-b1cb-a061e5d0d3ba", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Description_0qvveh2_deleted", "fibery/type": "Collaboration~Documents/Document", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/entity-component?": true, "ui/object-editor-order": null, "fibery/required?": true }, "fibery/id": "31777a65-6cc0-4dc6-bc9a-f17e01c844db", "fibery/deleted?": true }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Discovery Process", "fibery/type": "FranDev/Discovery Process", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/relation": "9aa288b0-3f0a-11ee-a4ed-872df5dde4f4", "ui/object-editor-order": 1 }, "fibery/id": "19c1c058-a38a-4114-841b-8cd3fcac9dff", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Name", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "fibery/secured?": true, "ui/title?": true }, "fibery/id": "a2ba053c-cbdb-4ade-a6a0-e3ce05e4d0b4", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Test_0a3phzf_deleted", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "ui/object-editor-order": 2, "fibery/secured?": true }, "fibery/id": "22595bab-289d-4282-8f0d-781d21a0137f", "fibery/deleted?": true }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Tripetto Fingerprint", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "ui/object-editor-order": 5, "fibery/secured?": true }, "fibery/id": "dfbfc88a-d24d-4faf-98d6-ee0304141c9d", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Tripetto ID", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "ui/object-editor-order": 4, "fibery/secured?": true }, "fibery/id": "b135ce60-c650-49b9-b064-38d1d7a072a1", "fibery/deleted?": false }, { "fibery/name": "FranDev/Tripetto Stencil", "fibery/type": "fibery/text", "fibery/meta": { "ui/object-editor-order": 6, "fibery/secured?": true }, "fibery/id": "b5f8d5be-afb1-4785-8be3-373a354c6084", "fibery/deleted?": false } ], "fibery/meta": { "fibery/primitive?": false, "fibery/domain?": true, "fibery/secured?": true, "ui/color": "#6a849b", "app/mixins": { "fibery/rank-mixin": true, "Collaboration~Documents/ReferencesMixin": true, "Files/Files-mixin": true } }, "fibery/id": "2299db10-3ac9-11ee-8de9-2dc318e5a8ba", "fibery/deleted?": false } ``` Are there any errors in the back end that would clarify what’s going on? Is it a delay issue, where I’m just not seeing the latest schema? ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/api-error-message-that-seems-to-be-blatantly-false-help/5914/2 "2024-02-28T06:32:55Z")
Have there previously been fields with these names? ---
**Author:** ![carson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/carson/32/7503_2.png) [@carson](https://community.fibery.io/u/carson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 7:44am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/api-error-message-that-seems-to-be-blatantly-false-help/5914/3 "2024-02-28T07:44:56Z")
No, there haven’t… Hmm. So, the way I first got the error was by making that API call (a single batch command with many create field commands inside), but I had tried to specify a primitive type that didn’t exist (“fibery/phone”). After changing those primitives in the API body to "fibery/text instead, I reran the request. That’s when I started getting this “already exists” error. Because the other fields didn’t show up in the UI or the schema query, I assumed the whole batch of commands were successfully rolled back. Maybe they weren’t? Or maybe they left …“pieces” somewhere? 🤷 I don’t know how these things work. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 8:58am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/api-error-message-that-seems-to-be-blatantly-false-help/5914/4 "2024-02-28T08:58:35Z")
> [@carson](#): > > I assumed the whole batch of commands were successfully rolled back. Maybe they weren’t? Or maybe they left …“pieces” somewhere? It might be worth testing that by running a [delete field](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Field-API-263/anchor=Delete-Field--9882bc7c-11f2-4a18-8a27-62ea875ee218) API call for these fields, and then trying again to recreate them