Deleting a translation document with self-reference error

Issue deleting a translation document that has reference to itself in another language. I tried to delete via Sanity Cli

sanity documents delete

but same error. Any advice?

Hey ! You need to remove that reference from the document before deleting.

How do I remove the reference of the page itself?

The document I want to delete is a Spanish version of the English page

There is no option to remove the reference (?)

The document I want to delete is a Spanish version of the same page in English

You can query for any documents that reference that id (using

references(_id)

), then unset that reference either manually or through the API . This reference behavior is described in that plugin's read me here .

Thanks will read it up

I should note that the readme I linked is more about how to control this behavior in the future, but not so helpful in your current situation 😅

Based on the readme, I do have

referenceBehavior

set to strong. Updating it to weak doesn’t help in this case since the reference was set earlier when the translated document was created.

If I understood correctly based on https://www.sanity.io/docs/js-client#removing-unsetting-fields
I should unset (remove) the reference field to

ElLnRMEzVGBvCslc1mXoT

from the Spanish document id

ElLnRMEzVGBvCslc1mXoT__i18n_es

Yes, I believe that's correct.

From the Spanish document

ElLnRMEzVGBvCslc1mXoT__i18n_es

I can see

__i18n_base

(containing reference to

ElLnRMEzVGBvCslc1mXoT

is the field I shall remove using the API .What are you referring to when you said manually?

Manually means you've set an actual schema inside of your studio's UI to remove it. It doesn't seem like that's the case here.

Confirming deleting the reference field via API enable manual delete of the document later 🙂

Thanks for the tip!

Awesome! Glad it worked out!