Create a Live Paste Section In a Document

POST {{baseUrl}}/1/threads/live-paste

Add a section to a document that tracks another section and can automatically update when the source section is updated.

We determine where to insert the new content based on the location argument. Some location values are relative to another section, which is specified by destination_section_id, enabling fine-grained editing. For example, to add a section to the end of an existing section, you would send the ID of the existing section in the list as the destination_section_id and send 2: AFTER_SECTION as the location.

To get the IDs of sections in an existing document, parse the HTML returned by the Get Thread. Every paragraph, list item, and table cell will have an HTML id attribute you can use in this method. Live Paste does not support individual items in lists.

Alternatively the content of both the source and the destination document can be referred to by document ranges. A document range is a heading plus all sections underneath it up to the next heading of same or larger size. The location values 6, 7 and 8 support document ranges in combination with destination_document_range for the destination document. The is_document_range_source parameter supports document ranges for the source document when set to True, in combination with the source_document_range parameter. Document ranges are available for documents only, i.e. not for spreadsheets.

Request Body

[{"name"=>"source_thread_id", "value"=>"incididunt Duis", "datatype"=>"string"}, {"name"=>"destination_thread_id", "value"=>"nostrud ex", "datatype"=>"string"}, {"name"=>"is_document_range_source", "value"=>"false", "datatype"=>"boolean"}, {"name"=>"source_section_ids", "value"=>"ipsum", "datatype"=>"string"}, {"name"=>"source_document_range", "value"=>"Duis fugiat", "datatype"=>"string"}, {"name"=>"location", "value"=>"0", "datatype"=>"number"}, {"name"=>"destination_section_id", "value"=>"esse ex velit deserunt", "datatype"=>"string"}, {"name"=>"destination_document_range", "value"=>"nostrud reprehenderit in", "datatype"=>"string"}, {"name"=>"update_automatic", "value"=>"true", "datatype"=>"boolean"}]

HEADERS

RESPONSES

status: OK

{"thread":{"author_id":"HcLAEARatvR","thread_class":"document","id":"SIdAAANKtjW","created_usec":1588263820524431,"updated_usec":1588264045370339,"title":"Test destination document","link":"https://corp.quip.com/EJGEA1dknX2g","type":"document","document_id":"SIdABA4DG5G"},"user_ids":["HcLAEARatvR"],"shared_folder_ids":[],"expanded_user_ids":["HcLAEARatvR"],"invited_user_emails":[],"html":"\u003ch1 id='SIdACAn15zN'\u003eTest destination document\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp id='SIdACAAhXse' class='line'\u003e​\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp id='SIdACAYNoUk' class='line'\u003e​\u003c/p\u003e\n"}