# Connect Formstack Documents to Arcgis Online When **New Merged Document** fires in [Formstack Documents](https://apiant.ai/connections/formstack-documents), your agent runs **Add item** in [Arcgis Online](https://apiant.ai/connections/arcgis-online). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Formstack Documents **1** trigger Formstack Documents **15** actions Arcgis Online **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Formstack Documents and Arcgis Online to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Formstack Documents can start in Arcgis Online - When **New Merged Document** in Formstack Documents then **Add item** in Arcgis Online - When **New Merged Document** in Formstack Documents then **Update item** in Arcgis Online Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Formstack Documents and Arcgis Online ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 29 actions - Trigger **New Merged Document** Triggers when a merged/populated document is created. - Action **Combine Files** Joins several files into one PDF or Word document. Give it the files in the order you want them, either as links or as base64 content, and it returns the combined file. - Action **Convert File to PDF** Turns a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image or HTML file into a PDF. Point it at the file with a link or supply the file content, and it returns the PDF. - Action **Copy Document** Makes a copy of one of your Formstack Documents templates under a new name, and returns the new document with its merge key, merge URL and available merge fields. - Action **Create Data Route** Creates a data route in Formstack Documents — a single endpoint that sends one set of data to several documents at once, following the rules you give it. Returns the new route with the URL to post data to. - Action **Create Data Route Merge** Sends one set of data into a Formstack Documents data route, which merges it into every document the route's rules select. Optionally returns the finished documents in the response. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new document template in Formstack Documents from HTML or from an uploaded PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, and returns its merge URL and the merge fields found in it. - Action **Delete Data Route** Deletes a data route from Formstack Documents. The documents the route pointed at are not deleted. - Action **Delete Document** Deletes a document template from Formstack Documents. - Action **Get Data Route** Returns one Formstack Documents data route, with its name, its merge URL and the rules that decide which documents the data goes to. - Action **Get Document** Returns one document template from Formstack Documents, with its name, type, output format, merge URL and — for HTML templates — the template's HTML. - Action **Get Document Fields** Returns the merge fields found in a Formstack Documents template, so you know which names to send when merging data into it. - Action **List Data Routes** Returns your Formstack Documents data routes, each with its name, key and the URL to send data to. - Action **List Documents** Returns your Formstack Documents templates, each with its name, type, output format and merge URL. - Action **Update Data Route** Updates a Formstack Documents data route — its name, folder, or the rules that decide which documents receive the data. Anything you leave blank stays as it is. - Action **Update Document** Updates a Formstack Documents template — its name, folder, output format, filename or the template content itself. Anything you leave blank stays as it is; the template type cannot be changed. - Action **Add features** Adds one or more features (or table records) to an ArcGIS feature layer and returns the result for each added feature. - Action **Add folder** Creates a folder in a user's ArcGIS Online content space for organizing items. - Action **Add group** Creates a new group in your ArcGIS Online organization. You become the group's owner. - Action **Add item** Adds a new item (a URL, web map, app or JSON text content) to an ArcGIS Online user's content. - Action **Delete features** Deletes features from an ArcGIS feature layer or table, selected by object IDs, a where clause, or a spatial filter. - Action **Delete item** Deletes an item from a user's ArcGIS Online content, moving it to the recycle bin where supported or deleting it permanently. - Action **Find features** Finds features or table records in an ArcGIS feature layer that match a where clause, object IDs or a spatial filter, and returns them with their attributes and geometry. - Action **Find items** Searches ArcGIS Online for content items you can access, by keyword, bounding box, filter or category, and returns the matching items. - Action **Get item** Returns the details of an ArcGIS Online item, such as its title, type, owner, tags and sharing access. - Action **Get user** Returns an ArcGIS Online user's profile, including email, role, privileges, and the groups they belong to. - Action **List folders** Returns the folders in an ArcGIS Online user's content, with each folder's id and title. - Action **Share item** Shares an item you own with the public, your organization, and/or specific groups. - Action **Update features** Updates existing features or table records in an ArcGIS feature layer, returning a success result for each feature. - Action **Update item** Updates an existing ArcGIS Online item's details, such as its title, description, tags, URL or text content. Only the values you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Formstack Documents** Introducing Formstack Documents, formerly WebMerge.](https://apiant.ai/connections/formstack-documents) - [ **Arcgis Online** Cloud GIS platform for mapping, geocoding, routing, and spatial data hosting and analysis.](https://apiant.ai/connections/arcgis-online) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Formstack Documents - [ **Formstack Documents to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/formstack-documents-to-hubspot) - [ **Formstack Documents to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/formstack-documents-to-salesforce) - [ **Formstack Documents to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Arcgis Online when something happens in Formstack Documents? Any of Arcgis Online's 14 actions, including Update features, Update item, Add features and Add folder. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Arcgis Online to Formstack Documents? Arcgis Online has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Formstack Documents. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Arcgis Online's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Formstack Documents or Arcgis Online? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.