To create a
new document in your Zoho Writer account.
Request URL : POST
Method
XML : http://export.writer.zoho.com/api/private/xml/newDocument/[documentName]?apikey=[API Key]&ticket=[Ticket]
JSON : http://export.writer.zoho.com/api/private/json/newDocument/[documentName]?apikey=[API Key]&ticket=[Ticket]
Request parameters
:
To create a new document in Zoho
Writer account we need to submit a form data to Writer with the
following fields:
Field
|
Description
|
Document Name
|
New document name to be created.
Note : Doc name should be a combination of characters (A-Z or a-z), numbers (0-9), hyphen (-) & underscore (_).
|
content
|
Specify the content of the
document.
|
Sample Form (POST Method)
<form method="POST"
action="http://export.writer.zoho.com/api/private/xml/newDocument/[DocName]?apikey=[APIKEY]&ticket=[Ticket]">
<input type="hidden" name="content" value="[Specify Doc content
here]">
<input type="submit" value="CreateNewDoc" class="divbutton"
name="submit">
</form>
* It is mandatory to pass the apikey and ticket
parameters to access the newDocument api.
Response fields
The
schema document for the API response is located at: http://export.writer.zoho.com/schema/restapi/save.xsd
Field
|
Description
|
documentId
|
Unique ID associated with the newly created
document.
|
documentName
|
Name of the created
document.
|
Sample Response
The
following is the sample XML response for the above
method:
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<response uri="/api/private/xml/newDocument/CreateNew">
<result>
<documentId>8892000000068007</documentId>
<documentName>CreateNew</documentName>
</result>
</response>
Equivalent JSON
response
{
"response":
{
"uri": "/api/private/json/newDocument/CreateNew",
"result":
{
"documentId":"8892000000068007",
"documentName":"CreateNew"
}
}
}
Errors
Creating a new document method
may return general errors. Other HTTP error code may be
1404.
