How to Find Data Paths

• Data paths are used across platform as addresses for specific data points
• You need to be able to find the right data path to set up many of the functionalities enabled by Advanced Editor

Video explanation

Steps to set up

• There are a few ways to find data paths
1. RECOMMENDED WAY: In the advanced editor you can navigate to a component and then take the data path from the “dataPath” property
1. Using the advanced editor is the best and easiest way to find data paths
2. You can manually type the data path as the default data path follows this format
1. “$.{taskName}.{componentName}”
2. Where all the names are in camel case
3. You can also find the data path from the workflow object
1. Go to the workflow board, right click and go into the inspect tools

2. Go to the network tab

3. Refresh the page

4. Copy the unique id of the workflow from the URL

5. Past the unique id into the filter box in the network tabs in the inspect tool

6. Click on this item then go to the response tab

7. Under layoutProperties find the component that you are looking for and copy the value from the dataPath property