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How Can I Fetch Custom Templates via API or Other Methods?

  • October 22, 2024
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Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there's an available API endpoint or another method to fetch my custom templates. Any insights would be appreciated!

Best answer by Horea Porutiu

Hi @vkoko,
 

Thanks for asking! 

Did you mean something to be able to insert an existing template into a board using its templateId? 

We are currently exploring solutions on how to enable this for developers, but it’s not available at the moment. If you have any feedback to help us build the most valuable solution for developers, it would be very helpful. 

How would you like this API endpoints to work for your use case? 

Any / as much feedback that you could provide will be very helpful for us as we explore solutions. 

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Horea Porutiu
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  • October 22, 2024

Hi @vkoko,
 

Thanks for asking! 

Did you mean something to be able to insert an existing template into a board using its templateId? 

We are currently exploring solutions on how to enable this for developers, but it’s not available at the moment. If you have any feedback to help us build the most valuable solution for developers, it would be very helpful. 

How would you like this API endpoints to work for your use case? 

Any / as much feedback that you could provide will be very helpful for us as we explore solutions. 


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  • October 22, 2024

@Horea Porutiu 

Thamks for your response!

I was thinking the following:

  1. Endpoint to Retrieve All Templates: An endpoint that returns a list of all available templates.
  2. Endpoint to Retrieve a Specific Template by ID: Another endpoint that, when provided with a template ID, returns the corresponding template along with its items/connectors.
  3. CRUD Operations on Templates: The ability to perform the standard CRUD operations (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) on templates through the API.

This setup would make it easier to manage templates and access their contents programmatically.

BR

Vasilis 

 

 


Horea Porutiu
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This is very helpful @vkoko, thank you for your feedback, it’s very valuable for us. 

I’ll keep you updated on our progress and please let me know if you have any other questions! 


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Would love to hear if this is a planned feature or if there is any update. I find the template browser gets absolutely spammed with “New template” from people in my Org who have pressed the button and realised that’s not what they want.

A template retrieval / creation API would allow us to more easily extract out what the valuable templates are that have been created by the Org, and allow our users to more easily access these.


Horea Porutiu
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Hey ​@James Mittermair  — I totally hear you. I can see how the the template spam issue can be very frustrating.

Right now, our engineering resources are heavily focused on our MCP Server offerings and expanding our core developer tooling. Because of that, we don’t have a Template API on our immediate roadmap.

Are you currently trying to automate the cleanup of those 'New templates,' or is the goal to build a custom internal portal for your team? I want to see if we can find a creative way to use existing Board APIs to get you 80% of the way there.