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Data bindings
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Written by Newsroom Studio
Updated over 10 months ago

Data bindings allow linking text in your projects to external CSV data sources, so that it can be updated without needing to modify the story.
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The first row of the CSV should contain headings which are used to name the bindings. The subsequent rows define the data or entries.
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It is easy to create a CSV data source from Google Sheets, by choosing File > Publish to web and selecting Comma-separated values (.csv) as the output format:
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To create a data binding, you select the text you want to make dynamic and then click on the field of an entry you want to bind in the data sidebar tab.
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An example use-case for data bindings might be to automatically update product prices or the quantity of products available (stock levels) in response to real-time changes, ensuring that the displayed information is always current.

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