Create a work item from a template

POST/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/projects/{project_id}/work-item-templates/{pk}/use/

Project work item templates pre-fill new work items in one project.

Path Parameters

slug:requiredstring

The workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs — in https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.

project_id:requiredstring

The project the resource belongs to. Accepts the project UUID or its bare identifier, for example ENG.

pk:requiredstring (uuid)

The work item from template id.

Body Parameters

name:optionalstring

Display name.

project_id:optionalstring (uuid)

Id of the related project.

Response shaping

fields:optionalstring

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Unrequested keys are omitted, not returned as null. id always comes back. Pass all for every requestable field. An unknown name is a 400. See Sparse fields.

Requestable here: archived_at, assignee_ids, created_at, created_by_id, custom_fields, cycle_id, id, identifier, is_draft, label_ids, module_ids, name, parent_id, priority, project_id, sequence_id, start_date, state_id, target_date, type_id.

expand:optionalstring

Comma-separated relations to embed: assignees, cycle, labels, modules, parent, state, type.

Expansion is separate-key — ?expand=state keeps state_id and adds a state object next to it. ?fields= and ?expand= are independent: naming a relation in ?fields= is a 400, and expanded objects survive field filtering. See Expanding relations.

Scopes

templates.work_items:write

Errors

Status	Code	Cause
400	invalid_request	The request body or a query parameter failed validation.
401	unauthorized	Missing or invalid credentials.
402	payment_required	The feature this endpoint belongs to isn't enabled on your plan or is switched off.
403	forbidden	Your role or token scope doesn't allow this.
404	not_found	No such resource, or it's outside your tenant.
406	not_acceptable	The Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
409	conflict	A business rule blocks the write — see the notes above.
413	payload_too_large	The request body is over the size limit.
415	unsupported_media_type	The Content-Type isn't one this endpoint accepts.
429	rate_limited	Throttled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.

Create a work item from a template

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/work-item-templates/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/use/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "name": "Example name",
  "project_id": "4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b"
}'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/work-item-templates/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/use/",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
    json={
        "name": "Example name",
        "project_id": "4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b"
    },
)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/projects/4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b/work-item-templates/9c1f0b3d-6d2e-4c9a-8b41-2f7e5a0d6c88/use/",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      name: "Example name",
      project_id: "4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b",
    }),
  },
);
const data = await response.json();

Response201

{
  "archived_at": null,
  "assignee_ids": [["16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430"]],
  "created_at": "2026-01-14T09:22:41.478363Z",
  "created_by_id": "16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430",
  "custom_fields": {},
  "cycle_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "id": "b7e42a19-3c5d-4f80-9a26-8d1c0f4e7b53",
  "identifier": "PROJ",
  "is_draft": false,
  "label_ids": [["16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430"]],
  "module_ids": [["16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430"]],
  "name": "Example name",
  "parent_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "priority": "high",
  "project_id": "4af68566-94a4-4eb3-94aa-50dc9427067b",
  "sequence_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "start_date": "2026-01-12",
  "state_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "target_date": "2026-01-20",
  "type_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f"
}