description_values in filing history

[solene_weill]

Hi,

I made some research on the API and I tried to put a company id to make a request on filing history. I found an object which is not on the filingHistoryList resource:
description_values
Do yo have a list of field we can find in this object?

Thanks,
Solene

[mfairhurst]

Solene,

This has been the subject of discussion in the past and links provided below to previous discussions, which maybe of interest. The description_values provides data that should be used to substitute into the description of the transaction, which is governed through the enumeration lookup.

We acknowledge that the documentation is not clear and are looking to update.

Thanks,

Mark.

Links to previous posts

Filing History Description Formatting

Hi, The description in the Filing History call returns in the form “a-string-of-words-separated-by-hyphens” Is there any plan to have a different description returned, similar to on the beta site?

Issue when constructing File History description

Currently to generate a complete description of File History item we have to look-up the hyphenated description provided in the API response and then iterate through the key/value pairs in description_values to construct the the actual description. However these items are not typed in any way and when the value is a date it is unformatted. { “description_values”: { “made_up_date”: “2014-09-09” } This means that when the procedure of generating a description is automated we have no way of k…

[solene_weill]

Thanks for your answer Mark but what I want to know is all values I can find in the description_values? Can you enumerate them?

For exemple we can find made_up_date, change_date, old_address…

Thank for your answer,

Solene

[ash]

The enumerations are here Solene: GitHub - companieshouse/api-enumerations