plugin-examples

This repo consists of examples of functions used in various Solutions built on top of the Yext platform.

sample-functions-solutions-pm

This repo is a collection of functions created for different use cases. Reference any of these files and adapt them for your specific function needs. This repo includes examples of functions as a source, functions for transforms in Connectors, and function hooks. It is updated regularly by Solutions and Platform Product Management teams at Yext.

Examples of Functions-as-a-Source Connectors

Since native sources do not currently support functions as operations, this is a collection of all used Functions-as-a-source that can be applied to any account via CLI.

• freshdesk-articles-shaw

  • Description: Use state-management to make cascading calls and retrieve a complete list of Freshdesk solution articles. Cascading calls are required to navtigate from category, to folder, to article.
  • Author: Max Shaw

• freshdesk-articles

  • Description: Another example of a function to pull in Solutions Articles from Freshdesk.
  • Author: Henry Kremer

• freshdesk-tickets-with-comments

  • Description: A function to pull in Tickets from your Freshdesk instance.
  • Author: DJ Corbett

• tweetsFromHandle

  • Description: A function to pull in your tweets by only inputting your Twitter handle and not your Twitter ID.
  • Author: DJ Corbett

• fullVideoInfo

  • Description: Pull in Video info from
  • Author: Henry Kremer

• zd-tickets-with-comments

  • Description:
  • Author: Henry Kremer

• zendeskFields

  • Description:
  • Author: DJ Corbett

Examples of Connector Transforms

• applyEntityTemplate

  • Description:
  • Author:

• codeToCountry

  • Description:
  • Author: Matt Malone

• clearRow

  • Description:
  • Author: Matt Malone

• unixFormatTimes

  • Description:
  • Author: Adrienne Williams

• unixFormatDates

  • Description:
  • Author: Adrienne Williams

• generalFunction

  • Description:
  • Author: DJ Corbett

• codeToCurrency

  • Description:
  • Author: Coleen Truong

• decodeHTML

• Description: Use this to transform any left over HTML characters in a string of text, e.g.   or  

• Author: Adrienne Williams (this is just using a #rd-party library)

• discourseAvatarUrl

  • Description:
  • Author: Yext engineering

• contentful Transforms

  • Description: Various transforms to use to pull in your data from Contentful.
  • Author: Adrienne Williams

• extractIdFromUrl

  • Description:
  • Author: Yext engineering

• formatDates

  • Description:
  • Author: Yext engineering

• generateFullUrl

  • Description:
  • Author: Yext engineering

• listToObject

  • Description:
  • Author: Yext engineering

• secToMin

  • Description:
  • Author: Yext engineering

• xmlToJson

  • Description: Use this plugin as a starting point to convert your XML data to JSON.
  • Author: DJ Corbett

Examples of Function Hooks

• applyEntityTemplatePlugin

  • Description: Use this plugin to apply a template directly to an entity after it's created.
  • Author: DJ Corbett