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Hi!
I can’t connect my Alpaca paper account. Description:
I could connect regular account but when I select only paper account button allow is disabled. When I pick both only real account is avaibale in the trigger dropdown.
I did not try even to reach any API, but this is the same contract but you just specify account ID. For that it seems it need to appear in dropdown list
The reason I am asking is because when I select the action “Get Account Info” (which is listed as a pre built action in the list from the screenshot above) I am able to toggle between to use Paper to TRUE or FALSE
That said, when you use the code example that is shown when you connect Alpaca from the app store (or when you select “Use Any Alpaca API in Node.js” from the list of prebuilt actions) this code doesn’t specify to use Paper API or not, because it is meant to just demostrate to the user the the Alpaca account can be connected properly, and is meant to serve as scaffolding which code is expected to be modified by the end user.
for “Get account info” I also can switch between api. Maybe it is specific for endpoint indeed, and placing orders is not possible via api for paper account
Did you look for the “Paper API” prop? For I reason that I don’t know, the “Paper API” prop for the “place order” component is an optional prop, meaning you need to enable it. Did you press on it for it to become enabled?