  This short note is a follow-up on the paper by Beig and Chru\'sciel regarding
the use of potentials to perform a gluing and shielding of initial data for
Maxwell fields and linearised gravity. Based on a work in collaboration with
Andersson and B\"ackdahl, this gluing and shielding procedure is generalised to
higher spin fields. The approach is based on a generalisation of the de Rham
complex to higher spin fields providing a parametrization of the set of
constraints, as well as standard elliptic theory to prove the existence of a
potential for solutions to the constraints for higher spin fields.
