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What are the top-level sections and the global-variable and flow-connection fields of an articy:draft JSON export, as an official importer reads them?

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No public articy page documents the JSON schema; the official MIT Unreal importer shows what it consumes: top-level Settings, Project, Packages, Hierarchy and ScriptMethods (always), plus GlobalVariables and ObjectDefinitions; global-variable namespaces carry Variables with name, description, type (Boolean/Integer/String) and value; flow pins carry Text, Owner and Connections. Curator qualifications: Code and help read 2026-10-22; importer not built or run; no export file parsed. Localisation handling (ObjectDefinitionsImport, PredefinedTypes) carried from producer reading. Limitations: Code and help read 2026-10-22; importer not built or run; no export file parsed. articy:draft 3 era importer; articy:draft X exports not checked. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ArticySoftware/Articy3ImporterForUnreal/blob/746ea1a1c95c92ffacb65ca9907931670bc3a797/Source/ArticyEditor/Private/ArticyImportData.cpp",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ArticySoftware/Articy3ImporterForUnreal/blob/746ea1a1c95c92ffacb65ca9907931670bc3a797/Source/ArticyRuntime/Public/ArticyHelpers.h",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ArticySoftware/Articy3ImporterForUnreal/blob/746ea1a1c95c92ffacb65ca9907931670bc3a797/Source/ArticyEditor/Private/ObjectDefinitionsImport.cpp",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ArticySoftware/Articy3ImporterForUnreal/blob/746ea1a1c95c92ffacb65ca9907931670bc3a797/Source/ArticyEditor/Private/PredefinedTypes.cpp",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ArticySoftware/Articy3ImporterForUnreal/blob/746ea1a1c95c92ffacb65ca9907931670bc3a797/Source/ArticyRuntime/Private/ArticyPins.cpp",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ArticySoftware/Articy3ImporterForUnreal/blob/746ea1a1c95c92ffacb65ca9907931670bc3a797/README.md",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.articy.com/help/adx/Scripting_GlobalVariables.html",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.articy.com/help/adx/Exports_Rulesets.html",
      "note": "ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] No public articy page documents the JSON schema; the official MIT Unreal importer shows what it consumes: top-level Settings, Project, Packages, Hierarchy and ScriptMethods (always), plus GlobalVariables and ObjectDefinitions; global-variable namespaces carry Variables with name, description, type (Boolean/Integer/String) and value; flow pins carry Text, Owner and Connections. · locator: ArticyHelpers.h L24-30; ArticyImportData.cpp L20-48, L426-444, L91-160; ArticyPins.cpp L14-36 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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