Carbone
Document generation service for templates, JSON-driven reports, PDF and Office output, and template tagging.
Covers back-office reporting that uploads templates, renders them against JSON data into PDF or Office formats, and organizes templates by tag and category.
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Look at your data without changing it.
- Download Template
Tool to download a template from Carbone by template ID. Use when you need to retrieve the original template file.
- Get Carbone Server Status
Tool to retrieve the current status and health of the Carbone server. Use before generating reports to ensure the service is operational.
- List Template Categories
Tool to retrieve a list of all categories used in templates. Categories function like folders for organizing templates. Use when you need to see available template groupings.
- List Template Tags
Tool to list all tags currently used in templates. Use when you need to discover available tags for categorizing or filtering templates by document type or version.
- List Templates
Tool to retrieve a list of templates from Carbone storage with filtering, search, and cursor-based pagination. Use when you need to find templates, search by name or ID, or iterate through all deployed templates.
- Render Template Direct
Tool to generate a document by uploading a base64-encoded template and data in a single API call. Use when you need to render documents without uploading templates separately.
- Set Carbone API Version
Tool to set the Carbone API version to be used for subsequent requests. Use before rendering or managing templates to ensure correct version is applied.
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Add something new to your account.
- Generate Carbone Report
Tool to generate a Carbone report from a template and JSON data. Use when you need to render documents in various formats.
- Upload a template
Upload a template file to the Carbone server to obtain a template ID for document generation. Supported template formats: DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, XHTML, IDML, HTML, or XML. Templates can contain placeholders like {d.fieldname} that will be replaced with data during report generation.
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Change something that is already there.
- Update Template Metadata
Tool to update metadata and attributes of an existing Carbone template. Use when you need to modify template name, comment, tags, category, or control version deployment and lifecycle.
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Remove something. This often cannot be undone.
- Delete Carbone Template
Permanently delete a template from the Carbone server by its 64-character hexadecimal template ID. This action is irreversible. Ensure you have the correct template ID before deleting.
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