Entries API "Seed data on create" feature promoted to stable

The ability to pre-populate structured tables when creating a notebook entry from a template (i.e. “seeding data”) is being supported in the stable version of the “Create a notebook entry” endpoint. The corresponding beta endpoint is now deprecated, and will be sunset on March 28th 2023.

What’s changing?

The beta version of the “Create a notebook entry” endpoint of the Entries API supports the initialTables parameter, which allows structured tables in a notebook entry template to be pre-populated with data upon creation. This functionality is referred to as “seeding” structured tables with data, and provides a way for integrations to pre-populate notebook entries with important data.

This feature is now being promoted to stable: Going forward, the stable version of the “Create a notebook entry” endpoint will support using the initalTables to seed data for notebook entries created from templates. Accordingly, the beta version of the POST /entries endpoint is now deprecated, and will be sunset after 30 days per Benchling’s Stability Guidelines.

When is this happening?

The stable version of the “Create a notebook entry” endpoint supports the initialTables parameter effective immediately.

The beta version of the “Create a notebook entry” endpoint is deprecated effective immediately, and will be completely sunset on March 28th 2023