Note | Notion Block × Block: Europe Event
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Note of Notion Block × Block: Europe Event on Jun 29, 2021
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Jun 29, 2021
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Block × Block: Digital goodies
Block × Block: Digital goodies Keynote: What's New & What's to Come
- International Office in Dublin
- Language: French
- Synced Block
- Developer Community - API
How Notion uses Notion
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How Notion Uses Notion
How Notion Uses Notion Notion's workspace overview
- Top-level: core company-wide databases
- Culture of documentation: workspace-level database
- Requests for Comment
- Announcements
- Processes
- A central home for tasks
- Meeting Notes
See Inside: 4 Notion customer demo how they get more done
Not intersted 😅
Session: Build workflows using Notion's API
A Q&A for Notion's API
I asked several questions about it
- Hi, I used the similar method as the glitch demo to create about 900 pages by
mapof an array, and it always got error:node:internal/process/promises:246 triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */); RequestError: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND api.notion.com. But if the page numbers are small, it will work. Is that expected? - Yes, there are rate limit in Notion API.
- Solution: slice the array into 0-100, 100-200, ... or delay a few seconds
- In the changelog, the API now dynamically create select values, but if create by map of an array, it is very easily (like 10 pages together with the same select value) to get coflict_error (error 409 in console and two same tags in Notion database select properties). Maybe this new function is not so perfect yet?
- Yes, there are still some technical issues need to be fixed.
- Solution: Just wait.
- Can we add url of a file to Files & media properties in database by API? I tried but got empty result. my code: {"files": [{"name": "https://url_of_my_image.jpg"}]}. I'm not sure if it is not currently supported.
- Seems not supported yet.
- Solution: use text property, and change the property to Files & media manully in Notion.
- The url property can accept null or " " (some blank space) to show as empty in Notion database, but "" will course error. Is that expected? I hope to add the ability to accept "" as input.
- Please reach out to team@makenotion.com, and we will take a further look into this.
Building with the Notion API
An example to work with a Notion database using the API.
Follow the code on glitch
Other Stages and Sessions
There are other Stages and Sessions about other topics happening at the same time, so I did not watch.