Create a workspace work item template

POST/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/work-item-templates/

Workspace work item templates pre-fill new work items across projects. Create a workspace work item template.

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.

Body Parameters

name:requiredstring

Display name.

Maximum 255 characters.

template_data:requiredobject

Seed payload used on create/update and nested under read template_data.

description_html:optionalstring

Rich-text body as HTML. This is the field the Plane editor round-trips.

is_published:optionalboolean

Whether is published.

short_description:optionalstring

The short description.

Nullable.

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: created_at, created_by_id, description_html, id, is_published, name, short_description, short_id, slug, template_data, template_type.

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 workspace work item template

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-templates/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "name": "Example name",
  "template_data": {
    "assignees": null,
    "description_html": "<p>Details go here.</p>",
    "labels": null,
    "modules": null,
    "name": "Example name",
    "priority": "high",
    "properties": null,
    "state": null,
    "type": null
  },
  "description_html": "<p>Details go here.</p>",
  "is_published": false,
  "short_description": "example"
}'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-templates/",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
    json={
        "name": "Example name",
        "template_data": {
            "assignees": None,
            "description_html": "<p>Details go here.</p>",
            "labels": None,
            "modules": None,
            "name": "Example name",
            "priority": "high",
            "properties": None,
            "state": None,
            "type": None
        },
        "description_html": "<p>Details go here.</p>",
        "is_published": False,
        "short_description": "example"
    },
)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/work-item-templates/",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      name: "Example name",
      template_data: {
        assignees: null,
        description_html: "<p>Details go here.</p>",
        labels: null,
        modules: null,
        name: "Example name",
        priority: "high",
        properties: null,
        state: null,
        type: null,
      },
      description_html: "<p>Details go here.</p>",
      is_published: false,
      short_description: "example",
    }),
  },
);
const data = await response.json();

Response201

{
  "created_at": "2026-01-14T09:22:41.478363Z",
  "created_by_id": "16c61a3a-512a-48ac-b0be-b6b46fe6f430",
  "description_html": "<p>Details go here.</p>",
  "id": "b7e42a19-3c5d-4f80-9a26-8d1c0f4e7b53",
  "is_published": false,
  "name": "Example name",
  "short_description": "example",
  "short_id": "f960d3c2-8524-4a41-b8eb-055ce4be2a7f",
  "slug": "my-team",
  "template_data": {},
  "template_type": "example"
}