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# Create

POST https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches
Content-Type: application/json

Add a launch. With a `plannedLaunchDate` it gets its launch template's
steps at once, which is what fills each reviewer's queue; pass
`generateSteps: false` to leave them off. Pass `draft: true` to save it
without telling anybody. A draft with `status: LAUNCHED` is
`409 draft`: publish it, then launch it.

Reference: https://docs.taktoria.com/api-reference/launches/create

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Servers

- `https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1` (Production, default)
- `http://localhost:3000/api/v1` (Local)

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a CreateLaunchRequest.

- `name` (string, required)
- `description` (string, optional)
- `keyCustomers` (string, optional) — The customers this launch is for, or who asked for it. Free text; null clears it.
- `status` (enum, optional) — Where a launch sits in its lifecycle.
  - Allowed values: `SCOPING`, `DESIGN`, `IN_DEVELOPMENT`, `TESTING`, `LAUNCHED`, `PENDING`, `ON_HOLD`
- `ownerUserIds` (list of string, optional) — Everybody who owns the launch: members of the workspace, or the request is a `422`. Left out on create, whoever is asking (a key's maker while still a member); on update, left alone.
- `orgTeamIds` (list of string, optional) — The workspace's teams the launch belongs to. Left out on update, left alone.
- `pmUserId` (string, optional) — One owner, the older form of `ownerUserIds`; null for none. `ownerUserIds` wins.
- `orgTeamId` (string, optional) — One team, the older form of `orgTeamIds`; null for none. `orgTeamIds` wins.
- `plannedLaunchDate` (string, optional) — Required unless `draft` is true. A launch is published with a date to schedule its steps back from.
- `actualLaunchDate` (string, optional)
- `stakeholderUserIds` (list of string, optional) — Who follows the launch: members of the workspace, or the request is a `422` naming the field. Left out on update, left alone.
- `launchTemplateId` (string, optional) — The launch template to take its steps from: one of the workspace's that is not archived. Left out, the default.
- `generateSteps` (boolean, optional) — Its launch template's steps come with a planned date: left out or `true`, a launch created with `plannedLaunchDate` gets them at once, a draft too (its reviewers hear of them when it is published), and a draft created without one gets them when its date is first set or it is published. `false` leaves them off.
- `draft` (boolean, optional) — Save it as a draft, which announces nothing until it is published. A draft cannot have `status: LAUNCHED` (`409 draft`).

## Response

### 200

- `id` (string, required)
- `organizationId` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `status` (enum, required) — Where a launch sits in its lifecycle.
  - Allowed values: `SCOPING`, `DESIGN`, `IN_DEVELOPMENT`, `TESTING`, `LAUNCHED`, `PENDING`, `ON_HOLD`
- `owners` (list of User, required) — Everybody who owns the launch. They hear about its decisions.
- `teams` (list of OrgTeamRef, required) — The teams the launch belongs to.
- `draft` (boolean, required) — Held back until published: nobody has been told about it, its steps are in no review queue, and it cannot be launched. A draft is never `LAUNCHED`: launching it, adding one as a draft with that status, or setting `status` to `LAUNCHED` on it is a `409 draft`, unless the same request publishes it with `draft: false`.
- `stepsGenerated` (boolean, required)
- `stakeholders` (list of User, required)
- `stepCount` (integer, required)
- `percentToLaunch` (integer, required) — Share of steps that have been approved, excepted or marked N/A.
- `createdAt` (datetime, required)
- `updatedAt` (datetime, required)
- `description` (string, optional)
- `keyCustomers` (string, optional) — The customers this launch is for, or who asked for it. Free text.
- `pm` (User, optional) — The first of `owners`, from when a launch had one. Read `owners`.
- `pmUserId` (string, optional) — The first owner's id. Read `owners`.
- `orgTeam` (OrgTeamRef, optional) — The first of `teams`, from when a launch had one. Read `teams`.
- `plannedLaunchDate` (datetime, optional)
- `actualLaunchDate` (datetime, optional)
- `health` (enum, optional) — As its newest update says; null until somebody posts one, and once the launch has launched. See `/launches/{launchId}/posts`.
  - Allowed values: `ON_TRACK`, `AT_RISK`, `OFF_TRACK`
- `launchTemplateId` (string, optional) — The launch template its steps come from. See `/launch-templates`.
- `launchTemplate` (LaunchTemplateRef, optional) — That template's id and name.
- `ticketingProject` (TicketingProject, optional) — The ticketing project it follows, if somebody linked one. See `/launches/{launchId}/ticketing-project`.

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 402 Subscription Required Error

The organization has no subscription for the app that lets it in: active, trialing or past due. One that is unpaid (Stripe stopped retrying a failed payment), paused, incomplete or cancelled answers this too, and the message says which: an unpaid app is locked until a workspace admin updates the payment details. `details.status` is the app's subscription status (null with none), and `details.paymentIssue` is `unpaid`, or `payment_failed` for an incomplete one whose first payment failed, as `paymentIssue` on `GET /subscription` reckons it; null when a payment is not why.

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Refused, and `error.code` says why. On an app's write endpoints, a signed-in session is refused `viewer_only` when the person is a Viewer of the app (they read it, and change nothing in it), and `seat_required` without a seat on it; a key is never either. Beyond those: `admin_required` when the change is an admin's (an app admin's for an app's admin powers, a workspace admin's for the workspace's settings), `forbidden` when the person may not change this one thing, `read_only_session` for a change only a key makes, `person_required` for what only a signed-in person does through their own account elsewhere (exporting a LaunchCal artifact to their docs tool), which a key cannot, `insufficient_scope` for a key without the scope, and `google_sign_in_required` for a session the workspace's Google rule turns away. Nothing was done.

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 409 Conflict Error

The request conflicts with how things stand, and `error.code` says how: `conflict` in general, or an endpoint's own code (`draft`, `launched`, `steps_incomplete`, `ticketing_not_connected`, `docs_not_connected`, …), listed in its description and under Errors and pagination. Nothing was done.

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 422 Validation Error

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Rate limited (`rate_limited`): the key, the signed-in person, the workspace or an expensive endpoint's own budget is used up for now. `Retry-After` says how many seconds to wait, and `details` names the `policy`, its `limit`, `windowSeconds` and `retryAfter`. Every answer to an authenticated request carries the IETF `RateLimit-Policy` and `RateLimit` headers, so a client can slow down before it gets this. Nothing was done; wait and send it again. See "Rate limits".

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

## Types

### User

A person in a Taktoria organization.

- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `email` (string, required)
- `image` (string, optional) — Their picture: one uploaded on the account page, or else their Google profile picture, brought in when they sign in with Google.

### OrgTeamRef

An organizational team such as Eagles or Ravens.

- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)

### LaunchTemplateRef

A launch template, by id and name.

- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)

### TicketingProject

What a launch follows in a ticketing system: a Linear project; a Jira epic or issue (a Jira project has no status of its own, so a link to one is kept as a link); a GitHub organization's project, or a repository's milestone; an Asana project; or a ClickUp list or task. Once its system is connected to the workspace (Settings → Integrations), each day, and on a sync, its status moves the launch's; the status updates of a Linear or GitHub project become the launch's updates, and the comments on a Jira issue or a ClickUp list or task its comments (`source` on a LaunchPost; a Jira comment restricted to some people is never brought in). An Asana project's status updates need a permission Asana's OAuth does not offer Taktoria's read-only connection, so none come in. It is followed by its tasks instead: its status kind is `PLANNED` until one is done, then `STARTED`, and `COMPLETED` once the project is marked complete, and its progress is the share of them done. A whole Jira project, a GitHub repository, and a ClickUp folder or space are kept as links. Marked done, it flags the launch ready to launch; it never launches it.

- `name` (string, required)
- `url` (string, required) — The project's address in its system.
- `system` (enum, optional) — Null for a system Taktoria has no connector for. Such a link is kept as a link and never synced.
  - Allowed values: `LINEAR`, `JIRA`, `GITHUB`, `ASANA`, `CLICKUP`
- `statusName` (string, optional) — Its status as the system names it, as of the last sync.
- `statusKind` (enum, optional) — A ticketing project's status, as one of these whichever system it is in. The launch's own status follows it when it changes.
  - Allowed values: `BACKLOG`, `PLANNED`, `STARTED`, `PAUSED`, `COMPLETED`, `CANCELED`
- `progress` (double, optional) — 0 to 1. A Linear project's own; otherwise the share that is done of a Jira issue's child issues, a GitHub project's items or milestone's issues, an Asana project's tasks, a ClickUp list's tasks or a ClickUp task's subtasks.
- `completedAt` (datetime, optional) — When the system marked it done.
- `syncedAt` (datetime, optional) — The last sync that worked; null before the first.
- `syncError` (string, optional) — Why the last sync failed: `notConnected` (its system is not connected to the workspace), `notFound`, `unauthorized` (a workspace admin must connect the system again), `unavailable` or `unsupported` (a system Taktoria cannot sync, or a link to something it cannot follow, such as a whole Jira project, a GitHub repository, or a ClickUp folder or space). Null when it worked.

### ErrorDetail

- `code` (string, required) — A stable machine-readable code such as `not_found`.
- `message` (string, required)
- `details` (any, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "name": "name"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "organizationId": "organizationId",
  "name": "name",
  "status": "SCOPING",
  "owners": [
    {
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name",
      "email": "email",
      "image": "image"
    },
    {
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name",
      "email": "email",
      "image": "image"
    }
  ],
  "teams": [
    {
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name"
    },
    {
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name"
    }
  ],
  "draft": true,
  "stepsGenerated": true,
  "stakeholders": [
    {
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name",
      "email": "email",
      "image": "image"
    },
    {
      "id": "id",
      "name": "name",
      "email": "email",
      "image": "image"
    }
  ],
  "stepCount": 1,
  "percentToLaunch": 1,
  "createdAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "updatedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "description": "description",
  "keyCustomers": "keyCustomers",
  "pm": {
    "id": "id",
    "name": "name",
    "email": "email",
    "image": "image"
  },
  "pmUserId": "pmUserId",
  "orgTeam": {
    "id": "id",
    "name": "name"
  },
  "plannedLaunchDate": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "actualLaunchDate": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "health": "ON_TRACK",
  "launchTemplateId": "launchTemplateId",
  "launchTemplate": {
    "id": "id",
    "name": "name"
  },
  "ticketingProject": {
    "name": "name",
    "url": "url",
    "system": "LINEAR",
    "statusName": "statusName",
    "statusKind": "BACKLOG",
    "progress": 1.1,
    "completedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "syncedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "syncError": "syncError"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches"

payload = { "name": "name" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"name":"name"}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"name\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"name\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"name\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches', [
  'body' => '{
  "name": "name"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"name\": \"name\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = ["name": "name"] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/launches")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```