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 We're unveiling a brand new set of APIs—including window.postMessage and Named Ranges—to help developers building custom apps to better communicate and exchange contextual commands with our office suite editors. 

The program was first introduced to help developers make the best use of our powerful document, spreadsheet, and presentation editors by enabling them to bring those apps to any custom solution they're building.

However, as we started working with more developer partners, one common request we received was to have APIs that made it easier to access and manipulate specific parts of the document content and to exchange content between the editor and the host app on a continuous basis.

We're addressing these requests today in the form of new content manipulation APIs, additional customization controls, and more in ×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Office Integrator. Take a look!

1. Cross-origin communication between host app and the editor

×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Office Integrator now supports window-to-window communication via postMessage APIs—meaning our editors running on zoho.xxcan exchange commands with a host app that runs on another window with a different domain (say zylker.xx) to insert content, create documents, and more.

For example, in a medical record management app, say zylkerhealth.com, hospitals can automatically add Doctors' signatures to patient reports as soon as a Doctor approves a report via the app.

Signature of the Doctors stored at zylkerhealth.com (host page) as an image will be transferred over to the sign field in the preset template at writer.zoho.com (separate window/pop-up) synchronously, creating a connected, holistic experience.

API docs of supported editors:

×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Writer, ×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Sheet, ×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Show

2. Controllable text ranges in documents

The new NamedRange APIs let you mark sections of a document and run operations to replace text, add additional text within the range, move cursor to a section, or extract text from these sections to display elsewhere in your app—programmatically.

This opens up a wide range of possibilities for developers to:

Refer to specific parts of a document and list them on your app as notes, without having to actually open the document

Apply common formatting to specific parts of a document with the press of a button

Lock specific parts of a document (like the clauses in a contract) once the user fills them in

API docs of supported editors:

×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Writer

3. Configurable wipe options

By default, all document data stored temporarily for real-time collaboration is deleted from our servers every six hours. However, we're introducing new configurations to set custom intervals for data-wiping for your API Key.

That's all for now. If you're interested to learn more about integrating ×îв©²ÊÍøÕ¾ Office editors into applications you build, head over to .

Happy building!