Get placeholders
The placeholders (variables) set in a document can be accessed with the action get_variables.
You can find everything about obtaining the existing placeholders in a document in the documentation.
The result of recovering the placeholders is a JSON.
{
"comments": ["VAR_COMMENT_1"],
"document": ["VAR_BODY_1","VAR_BODY_2"],
"endnotes": ["VAR_ENDNOTE_1"],
"footers": ["VAR_FOOTER_1","VAR_FOOTER_2"],
"footnotes": ["VAR_FOOTNOTE_1"],
"headers": ["VAR_HEADER_1","VAR_HEADER_2"]
}
The command to execute in order to obtain the existing variables in a document is:
dynadocx -a get_variables -t template.docx