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Create A Section In A Project

Creates a new section in a project. Returns the full record of the newly created section.

Input

type: object properties: parameters: type: object properties: project_gid: type: string description: Globally unique identifier for the project. opt_pretty: type: boolean description: >- Provides “pretty” output. Provides the response in a “pretty” format. In the case of JSON this means doing proper line breaking and indentation to make it readable. This will take extra time and increase the response size so it is advisable only to use this during debugging. opt_fields: type: array items: type: string description: >- Defines fields to return. Some requests return *compact* representations of objects in order to conserve resources and complete the request more efficiently. Other times requests return more information than you may need. This option allows you to list the exact set of fields that the API should be sure to return for the objects. The field names should be provided as paths, described below. The id of included objects will always be returned, regardless of the field options. required: - project_gid title: Parameters data: type: object properties: data: type: object properties: name: description: >- The text to be displayed as the section name. This cannot be an empty string. type: string example: Next Actions insert_before: description: >- An existing section within this project before which the added section should be inserted. Cannot be provided together with insert_after. type: string example: '86420' insert_after: description: >- An existing section within this project after which the added section should be inserted. Cannot be provided together with insert_before. type: string example: '987654' title: Data

Output

type: object properties: data: type: object properties: gid: description: Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string. type: string readOnly: true example: '12345' x-insert-after: false resource_type: description: The base type of this resource. type: string readOnly: true example: task x-insert-after: gid name: description: >- The name of the section (i.e. the text displayed as the section header). type: string example: Next Actions created_at: description: The time at which this resource was created. type: string format: date-time readOnly: true example: '2012-02-22T02:06:58.147Z' project: type: object properties: gid: description: Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string. type: string readOnly: true example: '12345' x-insert-after: false resource_type: description: The base type of this resource. type: string readOnly: true example: task x-insert-after: gid name: description: >- Name of the project. This is generally a short sentence fragment that fits on a line in the UI for maximum readability. However, it can be longer. type: string example: Stuff to buy projects: description: '*Deprecated - please use project instead*' type: array readOnly: true items: type: object properties: gid: description: Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string. type: string readOnly: true example: '12345' x-insert-after: false resource_type: description: The base type of this resource. type: string readOnly: true example: task x-insert-after: gid name: description: >- Name of the project. This is generally a short sentence fragment that fits on a line in the UI for maximum readability. However, it can be longer. type: string example: Stuff to buy