Formfeed

Lists the templates of the workspace this server works in (the one chosen at sign-in, or the API key's), most recently changed first: id, slug, name, kind (pdf, image, docx for Word, pptx for PowerPoint), engine, tags and published_version. Call it first to find the slug that get_template_schema, validate_template and render take; skip it when the user already named the template. Returns every match in one answer, without archived templates, and an empty list when nothing matches. A template whose published_version is null has never been published, so render cannot use it yet. Read-only and free.

Returns the JSON Schema of the `data` object a template expects and the sample data it was designed with, from its published version, else its latest draft. Call it after list_templates and before render or validate_template, to build data that fits; ad-hoc html has no stored schema to read. When the template stores no schema, one is inferred from the sample data: treat that as a guide, not a contract. Read-only and free; an unknown slug returns an error.

Returns what a template version is made of: the body markup (html), css, head, settings (paper, margins, header, footer, fonts), sample data, data sets, data schema, translations and partials, with the version's checksum. Call it before save_template to change a template the user named, and save what you edited with that checksum as base_checksum. Reads the latest version by default, the newest draft a change builds on; published reads what renders use. Word and PowerPoint templates are documents: for them it returns the settings and data, not the document. Read-only and free.

Checks a template and its data without rendering: free, no units, nothing stored, no document produced. Call it before render when you assembled the data yourself, or after writing ad-hoc html. With template, the API checks the published version (else the latest, or the version you name) as a render would: syntax, header and footer, errors only this data triggers, and the data against the stored JSON Schema (a wrong type or a missing required field is an error). With html and engine it compiles offline and reports syntax errors, unknown filters and variables missing from data. Returns ok and diagnostics (severity, code, message, plus path, line and column, or part and paragraph for Word and PowerPoint). Warnings leave ok true: settle each before rendering.

Saves a template as a draft, never published: renders keep using the published version until a person publishes the draft in Formfeed. With template and base_checksum it saves a new version of that template: read it with get_template_source first, change what the user asked for, and pass only the parts you changed (the others are kept from the version you read). With new_template and html it creates a template whose version 1 is the draft. change_note says what changed; the person reads it before publishing. Returns the saved version, the check of the draft with its sample data (fix every error and save again) and review_url, the page where the person reviews and publishes it: hand that to the user. Needs an API key with template:write, or, for a signed-in agent, the person's permission under Account → Connected agents in Formfeed. Word and PowerPoint templates cannot be saved here. Free; a new template counts towards the plan's template limit.

Checks the _invoice block of an e-invoice offline, as the API does before it renders one: the fields EN 16931 asks for, the totals to the cent, VAT categories and code lists, and France's rules for an invoice between two French businesses. Free, no units, nothing sent. Returns ok and problems, each with the field, the rule (BR-…) where one applies and a message. Nothing is computed for you: change the values a problem names, check again, then call render with einvoice and the block as data._invoice. The validator that runs during the render holds the file to the full rule set and to PDF/A-3b as well.

Creates a document by filling a stored template, or ad-hoc html, with data: a PDF or image, or DOCX, PPTX or PDF from Word and PowerPoint templates. Returns the render with status and download_url; for an image (png, jpg or webp) up to 2 MB the result also carries the picture itself, so look at what you made before handing it on (a PDF comes as its link). Use it to make a document from data; to turn an existing office file into a PDF, use convert_to_pdf. Stored templates render their published version, so one whose published_version is null fails with template_not_found. Every call is a new render: a live key or a signed-in agent consumes units, a test key is free (watermarked on the Free plan). A render that fails returns status failed and an error with code and message; validate_template finds most causes beforehand. With einvoice the PDF becomes a ZUGFeRD / Factur-X e-invoice built from data._invoice (check the block with check_invoice first): the render then carries einvoice, the validator's report, and a refused invoice names the fields and rules to fix. The link expires at expires_at; get_render issues a fresh one.

Converts an existing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, RTF or HTML document (up to 20 MB) to a PDF as it is, without filling in data, and returns the render with status and download_url. To make a document from a template and data, use render instead. Pass exactly one source: render_id, the render of a Word or PowerPoint template (output docx or pptx); path, a file on this machine; or file_base64 with file_name. Every call is a new render that counts units like a PDF; the Free plan cannot convert (Starter and above). The document is converted and not kept.

Returns the current state of a render: status (queued, rendering, succeeded or failed), download_url with expires_at, page_count, units and error, and the picture of a finished image render up to 2 MB. Use it to follow a render started with wait false, or to get a fresh link once the old one has expired; render and convert_to_pdf already return this for the render they just made. Read-only and free; an unknown id returns an error.

Returns the workspace and organisation this server acts in, the plan, the environment (live or test) and the units of the current period: included, used and the balance of prepaid units. Call it when the user asks where a document will land or how many renders are left, or when list_templates returns nothing you expected. A signed-in agent works in the workspace chosen when it was connected, which the person changes in Formfeed under Account → Connected agents; an API key works in the workspace it was made for. Read-only and free.

Takes no parameters.