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Getting Started with the Archive Pack

The Quickstart Guide for the Beta Archive Pack

First,

Copy this doc

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Overall, here’s what we’ll do in this doc to get you started with the Archive Pack:

Copy the doc

Set up the Archive Pack

Authorize the Archive Pack to access Coda

Archive your first table

See your Archived Table

I’ll walk you through it!

Step 1: Set Up

First, set up the Archive Pack

type /Archive Pack

Select the Archive Pack

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Go to Settings

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Under Private account, select Connect an account, you’ll paste in your Archive Pack token

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Copy and paste the Archive Pack token I emailed you

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This is what an Archive Pack token looks like (but don’t use this one, use the one I emailed):

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Our goal is going to be to archive this table!

Your Sample Table 2

Your Sample Table 2

Name

Height

Betty

000

Charles

000

Irina

000

There are no rows in this table

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You’re making great progress! Now let’s authorize the Archive Pack

Copy the doc

Set up the Archive Pack

Authorize the Archive Pack to access Coda

Archive your first table

See your Archived Table

Step 2: Archive Pack ❤️ Coda

You’ll need to get your Coda API Token. This will be used by the Archive Pack to pull data out of Coda.

For your security, I’ll show you how to limit the permissions of the Coda token you share.

Get your Coda API Token under User Indicator → Triple Dots → Account Settings:

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2. Scroll down to API SETTINGS, then click Generate API token

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3. Name the token “Archive Pack” so you can find it later.

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(Recommended: add security restrictions to the token)

Click “Add a restriction”

Select restriction “Doc or table”

Select “Read only” (the Archive Pack doesn’t need write permissions)

Copy and paste the url of the doc where your table lives

(or if you only want the Archive Pack to see one table, use [Your Table].ObjectLink() to get the table url)

4. Click Generate API token

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5. Click Copy token and paste it below

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Paste Your Coda API Token here

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5. Finally, send the Coda API token to the Archive Pack with this button

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Authorize archive pack

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Should see this pop up :)

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Step 3: Archive a Table

Nice work! Now let’s archive a table

Copy the doc

Set up the Archive Pack

Authorize the Archive Pack to access Coda

Archive your first table

See your Archived Table

Now we archive! I’ll show you how to get your

Doc Id

Table Id

Workspace Id

Get your Doc Id (I’ve already done this for you). In general you can get it with the formula

thisDocument.ObjectLink().Split("_d").Last().Split("#").First()

This Doc Id:

BkfJ-16hBa

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(I already got it for you :) you don’t need to do anything)

2. Get your Table Id by turning on your developer settings

Account Settings

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Scroll to the bottom under LABS turn on Enable Developer Mode

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Click the triple dots next to the Sample Table below 👇, then clicking Copy table ID

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Sample Table 2

Sample Table 2

Name

Height

Betty

000

Charles

000

Irina

000

There are no rows in this table

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Paste your table id into the box below.

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Paste Your Table Id

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👆 here’s your table

4. Get your Workspace Id

I emailed you your workspace id, it looks something like this:

Workspace Id: ancient-seahorse-of-gallantry

Paste Your Workspace Id

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5. Archive!

I’ve already set up the button for you, but this is an example of what it might look like if you set it up yourself:

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Click to archive!

Archive table

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View 2 of Sample Table

View 2 of Sample Table

Name

Height

Betty

000

Charles

000

Irina

000

There are no rows in this table

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Should see this pop up again :)

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Step 4: See your Archived Table

Last step! Now let’s retrieve the table you archived

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Set up the Archive Pack

Authorize the Archive Pack to access Coda

Archive your first table

See your Archived Table

Now, to pull in your archives:

type /Archive anywhere to open the sidebar

Click Archives under Tables:

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Click and drag Sample Table onto the page

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Your archived table will look like this!

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You’re done! Now you’re all ready to do this with your personal table. To recap:

/Archive Pack

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