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# Create Step Template

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

Add a step to a launch template, at the end unless `sortOrder` says
otherwise. An unknown or archived launch template is a 422.

Reference: https://docs.taktoria.com/api-reference/process/create-step-template

## 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 CreateStepTemplateRequest.

- `name` (string, required)
- `functionalTeamId` (string, required)
- `launchTemplateId` (string, optional) — The launch template to add it to. Left out, the workspace's default.
- `whenToUse` (enum, optional) — How required a step is, from its launch template.
  - Allowed values: `EVERY_TIME`, `RECOMMENDED`, `OPTIONAL`
- `durationDays` (integer, optional)
- `reasoning` (string, optional)
- `defaultReviewerUserId` (string, optional) — Who reviews it by default, a member of the workspace; anybody else is a `422` naming the field.
- `sortOrder` (integer, optional) — Its place in the template's order. Left out, the end, as a step added in the app goes.

## Response

### 200

- `id` (string, required)
- `organizationId` (string, required)
- `launchTemplateId` (string, required) — The launch template it is a step of.
- `name` (string, required)
- `whenToUse` (enum, required) — How required a step is, from its launch template.
  - Allowed values: `EVERY_TIME`, `RECOMMENDED`, `OPTIONAL`
- `functionalTeamId` (string, required)
- `durationDays` (integer, required) — Typical duration, used to back-schedule the step from launch day.
- `sortOrder` (integer, required)
- `archived` (boolean, required)
- `functionalTeam` (TeamRef, optional) — A functional team, the group that performs one kind of review.
- `reasoning` (string, optional) — Why this step exists, and what lift it adds.
- `defaultReviewer` (User, optional) — A person in a Taktoria organization.
- `defaultReviewerUserId` (string, optional) — Who reviews it by default: when a launch's steps are added, this step starts with them as its reviewer, and they are told once the launch is published. Anyone can still choose another reviewer on the launch. Cleared when they leave the workspace.

## Errors

### 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)

### 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

### TeamRef

A functional team, the group that performs one kind of review.

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

### 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.

### ErrorDetail

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

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "name": "name",
  "functionalTeamId": "functionalTeamId"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "organizationId": "organizationId",
  "launchTemplateId": "launchTemplateId",
  "name": "name",
  "whenToUse": "EVERY_TIME",
  "functionalTeamId": "functionalTeamId",
  "durationDays": 1,
  "sortOrder": 1,
  "archived": true,
  "functionalTeam": {
    "id": "id",
    "name": "name",
    "slug": "slug"
  },
  "reasoning": "reasoning",
  "defaultReviewer": {
    "id": "id",
    "name": "name",
    "email": "email",
    "image": "image"
  },
  "defaultReviewerUserId": "defaultReviewerUserId"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/step-templates"

payload = {
    "name": "name",
    "functionalTeamId": "functionalTeamId"
}
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/step-templates';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"name":"name","functionalTeamId":"functionalTeamId"}'
};

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/step-templates"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"name\",\n  \"functionalTeamId\": \"functionalTeamId\"\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/step-templates")

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  \"functionalTeamId\": \"functionalTeamId\"\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/step-templates")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"name\",\n  \"functionalTeamId\": \"functionalTeamId\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

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

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

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/step-templates");
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  \"functionalTeamId\": \"functionalTeamId\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

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

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

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/step-templates")! 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()
```