Using Elastic Template with regular templates

Hello,

I’m looking into using Elastic templates.  When filling in the Elastic template, will we be able to read those field values with our existing Connect API?  We store the envelope contents based on those fields we write out to a text file before importing them into another application.

We currently use a cumbersome process where we have users ‘use a template’ and also upload a document type that matches a template we created.  We want to make the process easier for the user and build in more flexibility too.  Are we on the right track with Elastic templates to achieve this?   We want to continue to use our existing templates as well.  I’m not sure how they both can be used together or not.

Thanks

Maggie