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# EntryPoint

#### Thing > Intangible > EntryPoint

An entry point, within some Web-based protocol.
Usage: Between 250,000 and 500,000 domains

Property | Expected Type | Description
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Properties from EntryPoint
`actionApplication` | SoftwareApplication | An application that can complete the request. Supersedes application.
`actionPlatform` | Text or URL | The high level platform(s) where the Action can be performed for the given URL. To specify a specific application or operating system instance, use actionApplication.
`contentType` | Text | The supported content type(s) for an EntryPoint response.
`encodingType` | Text | The supported encoding type(s) for an EntryPoint request.
`httpMethod` | Text | An HTTP method that specifies the appropriate HTTP method for a request to an HTTP EntryPoint. Values are capitalized strings as used in HTTP.
`urlTemplate` | Text | An url template (RFC6570) that will be used to construct the target of the execution of the action.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType` | URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
`alternateName` | Text | An alias for the item.
`description` | Text | A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription` | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`image` | ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage` | CreativeWork or URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity.
`name` | Text | The name of the item.
`potentialAction` | Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs` | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
`url` | URL | URL of the item.

Instances of EntryPoint may appear as values for the following properties

Property | On Types | Description
--- | --- | ---
`target` | Action | Indicates a target EntryPoint for an Action.

#### Acknowledgement

The schema.org Actions mechanism benefited from extensive discussions across the Web standards community around W3C, in particular from the Hydra project's community group.

Examples
Example 1
Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

    A Restaurant named "Tartine Bakery" with a ViewAction as a
    potentialAction, with several target endpoints including
    the simple url http://example.com/player?id=123 and
    full EntryPoint descriptions for Windows and iOS SoftwareApplication
    apps.

    This example is JSON only.

    This example is JSON only.

    <script type="application/ld+json">
    {
      "@context": "http://schema.org",
      "@type": "Restaurant",
      "name": "Tartine Bakery",
      "potentialAction": {
        "@type": "ViewAction",
        "target": [
          "http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
          {
            "@type": "EntryPoint",
            "urlTemplate": "http://api.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
            "contentType": "application/json+ld"
          },
          "android-app://com.urbanspoon/http/www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
          {
            "@type": "EntryPoint",
            "urlTemplate": "urbanspoon://r/6/92204",
            "actionApplication": {
              "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
              "@id": "284708449",
              "name": "Urbanspoon iPhone & iPad App",
              "operatingSystem": "iOS"
            }
          },
          {
            "@type": "EntryPoint",
            "urlTemplate": "urbanspoon://r/6/92204",
            "actionApplication": {
              "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
              "@id": "5b23b738-bb64-4829-9296-5bcb59bb0d2d",
              "name": "Windows Phone App",
              "operatingSystem": "Windows Phone 8"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
    </script>

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