I am using a UI Extension to retrieve a list of options from an API, which populates a list (based on this extension)
I’d like to grab extra data associated with the API response and populate other fields automatically. This is working fine, but it is metadata associated with the selected item which I do not want content editors to modify.
At the moment I’m struggling to find a way to hide the metadata fields, while still being able to populate them when the select element changes.
Is there a strategy for achieving this? Or is there a feature allows setting arbitrary metadata post-save, so that the fields are never presented to content editors, but I can still associate the data?
The use case for this is, by saving the metadata against the content element at creation time, it saves me a round trip in my application later for every item returned from contenftul.
Cheers.