Monday doc blocks and delta format

monday Apps & Developers
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Is there any documentation on how to work with monday doc blocks i.e. delta format? All I got was that it uses quill delta library. However, the information available on quill delta does not seem to be enough and there seem to be more going on in the monday doc delta format blocks. Is there any documentation available on this?

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Hello there @manishaghosh ,

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Hi @Matias.Monday ,

Thank you for your reply. I am just trying to figure out how I can parse the delta blocks. Is there a straight forward way to do that? I am able to fetch the blocks fine using the api. I was wondering if there is a way I can convert the delta blocks to plain HTML or anything similar. Thanks again.

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Hello again @manishaghosh,

You mean that you want to retrieve the delta blocks via API, and use the result to create HTML code? Am I understanding correctly?

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Hi @Matias.Monday ,

Yes that is correct. The retrieving part is what I have done successfully. What I’m stuck on is, how should I parse these delta blocks.

For example, if I get the following for a list in my monday doc, how should I parse it? Is writing individual logic on my own for each type of block (normal text, headings, list, table etc.) the only way? Thanks again!

{
	"id": "7f8c145-989f-48bb-b7f8-dc8f91690g42",
	"type": "check list", 
	"content": {
		"alignment": "right", // "left", "right", or "center"
		"direction": "rtl", // "ltr" or "rtl"
		"deltaFormat": [{
			"insert": "block 1"
		}],
		"indentation": 1,
		"checked": true // checks or unchecks a box
	}
}
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Hello again @manishaghosh,

monday does not offer an out-of-the-box feature for this.

So in this case, yes, you should create a logic on your end to “translate” what you retrieve successfully via API into HTML code you can use.

Cheers,
Matias

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@Matias.Monday , Thank you for the the info. :+1:

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Happy to help @manishaghosh !