This article explains how to find the data accessible from SharePoint when using the SharePoint App Connector so it can be used in smart templates through the binding syntax.
Prerequisites
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The steps to find available data from the SharePoint App Connector, are:
- In SharePoint go to the page where the Create Document button is shown:
- Click Create Document. The Composer opens.
- Press F12 to open the Developer Tools of the (Composer) browser and select the Network tab.
- In the Composer select any template and click Next.
- In the lower right corner click Other actions.
- Now in the 'Name' task pane on the Network tab in the Developer Tools click create.
- In the right task pane select the Headers tab and scroll down to the section named 'Request Payload'.
- Expand
externalContent
. - Expand
List
,Site
andWeb
. The result looks like this: - The (purple) fields can now be used in bindings in a template using a HostSystem binding.
For example{{HostSystem.List.Title}}
will show the value ‘Documents’ in the document,{{HostSystem.Site.GeoLocation}}
will show 'EUR' and{{HostSystem.Web.Title}}
will show 'My Team Site'.
ImportantField names are case-sensitive. |
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