Box Doc Gen templates resources

Doc Gen templates are used as input to generate documents.

Box Doc Gen tags

A list of Box Doc Gen tags.

Attributes and example

Property	Type	Required	Description
`limit`	`integer`	No	The limit that was used for these entries. This will be the same as the `limit` query parameter unless that value exceeded the maximum value allowed. The maximum value varies by API.
`next_marker`	`string`	No	The marker for the start of the next page of results. Can be `null`.
`prev_marker`	`string`	No	The marker for the start of the previous page of results. Can be `null`.
`entries`	array of Box Doc Gen template tag	No	List of tags.

Example

{
  "limit": 1000,
  "next_marker": "JV9IRGZmieiBasejOG9yDCRNgd2ymoZIbjsxbJMjIs3kioVii",
  "prev_marker": "JV9IRGZmieiBasejOG9yDCRNgd2ymoZIbjsxbJMjIs3kioVih",
  "entries": [
    {
      "tag_content": "{{item.name}}",
      "tag_type": "text",
      "json_paths": [
        "products",
        "products.name"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Box Doc Gen tags processing message

A message informing the user that document tags are still being processed.

Attributes and example

Property	Type	Required	Description
`message`	`string`	Yes	A message informing the user that document tags are still being processed. Read-only.

Example

{
  "message": "Processing tags for this file."
}

Box Doc Gen template

A Box Doc Gen template object.

Attributes and example

Property	Type	Required	Description
`file`	`File reference`	No	Enable the file to generate a document from.
`file_name`	`string`	No	The name of the template. Can be `null`.

Example

{
  "file": {
    "type": "file",
    "id": "42037322"
  },
  "file_name": "Official contract"
}

Box Doc Gen template tag

A Box Doc Gen template tag object.

Attributes and example

Property	Type	Required	Description
`tag_content`	`string`	Yes	The content of the tag. Read-only.
`tag_type`	`enum<string>`	Yes	Type of the tag. Available options: `text`, `arithmetic`, `conditional`, `for-loop`, `table-loop`, `image`. Read-only.
`json_paths`	array of `string`	Yes	List of the paths. Read-only.

Example

{
  "tag_content": "{{item.name}}",
  "tag_type": "text",
  "json_paths": [
    "products",
    "products.name"
  ]
}

Box Doc Gen templates

List of Box Doc Gen templates.

Attributes and example

Property	Type	Required	Description
`limit`	`integer`	No	The limit that was used for these entries. This will be the same as the `limit` query parameter unless that value exceeded the maximum value allowed. The maximum value varies by API.
`next_marker`	`string`	No	The marker for the start of the next page of results. Can be `null`.
`prev_marker`	`string`	No	The marker for the start of the previous page of results. Can be `null`.
`entries`	array of Box Doc Gen template	No	A list of templates.

Example

{
  "limit": 1000,
  "next_marker": "JV9IRGZmieiBasejOG9yDCRNgd2ymoZIbjsxbJMjIs3kioVii",
  "prev_marker": "JV9IRGZmieiBasejOG9yDCRNgd2ymoZIbjsxbJMjIs3kioVih",
  "entries": [
    {
      "file": {
        "type": "file",
        "id": "42037322"
      },
      "file_name": "Official contract"
    }
  ]
}

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