# JSON Schema

In this tutorial, we will explore the JSON schema used by FancyDialogs to define dialogs. This schema provides a structured way to create fancy dialogs.

The easiest way to create a new dialog is to copy an existing dialog and modify it to suit your needs. You can find some example dialogs in the plugins/FancyDialogs/data/dialogs folder on your server.

Below is an example of a simple dialog defined using the FancyDialogs JSON schema:

{
  "id": "my_dialog",
  "title": "My Fancy Dialog",
  "canCloseWithEscape": true,
  "body": [
    { "text": "This is my first dialog created with FancyDialogs!" }
  ],
  "inputs": {
    "textFields": [
      {
        "key": "fav_color",
        "order": 1,
        "label": "<color:#ff7300>What is your favorite color?</color>",
        "placeholder": "gold",
        "maxLength": 50,
        "maxLines": 1
      }
    ]
  },
  "buttons": [
    {
      "label": "Show favorite color",
      "tooltip": "Click to show your favorite color",
      "actions": [
        {
          "name": "message",
          "data": "Your favorite color is: <color:{fav_color}>{fav_color}</color>"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

id: The unique identifier for the dialog, which is used to reference the dialog in commands or other dialogs

title: The title of the dialog, which is displayed at the top of the dialog (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)

canCloseWithEscape: Whether the dialog can be closed with the Escape key (default: true)

body: The body of the dialog - see Body Section for details

inputs: The inputs of the dialog - see Input Section for details

buttons: The buttons of the dialog - see Button Section for details

text: The text to display in the body of the dialog (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)

textFields: A list of text fields - see Text Fields for details

selects: A list of select fields - see Select Fields for details

key: The key to use to store the input value (can be used as a placeholder in actions)

order: The order of the text field in the dialog

label: The label to display above the text field (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)

placeholder: The initial text to display in the text field

maxLength: The maximum length of the input

maxLines: The maximum number of lines for the input (greater than 1 will create a multiline text field)

key: The key to use to store the input value (can be used as a placeholder in actions)

order: The order of the select field in the dialog

label: The label to display above the select field (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)

options: A list of options that can be selected by the player

• value: The value that will be returned when the player selects this option
• display: The text to display in the select field (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)
• initial: Whether this option is selected by default (default: false)

• label: The text to display on the button (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)
• tooltip: The tooltip to display when hovering over the button (supports MiniMessage & PlaceholderAPI)
• actions: A list of actions that will be executed when the button is clicked - see Actions for details

• name: The name of the action (see below for a list of available actions)
• data: The data for the action, which depends on the action type

Available actions include:

• message: Sends a message to the player (set data to the message)
• console_command: Executes a command as the console (set data to the command)
• player_command: Executes a command as the player (set data to the command)
• open_dialog: Opens another dialog (set data to the ID of the dialog to open)
• open_random_dialog: Opens another dialog (set data to a list of dialog IDs separated by commas: 'dialog1,dialog2,dialog3')
• send_to_server: Sends the player to another server (requires BungeeCord or Velocity) (set data to the server name)