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Create a section in a project
API ReferenceCreates a new section in a project. Returns the full record of the newly created section.
OpenAPI definition
json
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"name": "Sections",
"description": "A section is a subdivision of a project that groups tasks together. It can either be a header above a list of tasks in a list view or a column in a board view of a project.\n\nSections are largely a shared idiom in Asana’s API for both list and board views of a project regardless of the project’s layout.\n\nThe ‘memberships’ property when [getting a task](/reference/tasks/gettask) will return the information for the section or the column under ‘section’ in the response."
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"description": "Globally unique identifier for the project.",
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"ProjectCompact": {
"description": "A *project* represents a prioritized list of tasks in Asana or a board with columns of tasks represented as cards. It exists in a single workspace or organization and is accessible to a subset of users in that workspace or organization, depending on its permissions.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"gid": {
"description": "Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string.",
"type": "string",
"readOnly": true,
"example": "12345",
"x-insert-after": false
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"resource_type": {
"description": "The base type of this resource.",
"type": "string",
"readOnly": true,
"example": "project",
"x-insert-after": "gid"
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"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"
}
}
},
"SectionCompact": {
"description": "A *section* is a subdivision of a project that groups tasks together. It can either be a header above a list of tasks in a list view or a column in a board view of a 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
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"resource_type": {
"description": "The base type of this resource.",
"type": "string",
"readOnly": true,
"example": "section",
"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"
}
}
},
"SectionRequest": {
"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"
}
},
"required": [
"name"
]
},
"SectionResponse": {
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/SectionCompact"
},
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"created_at": {
"description": "The time at which this resource was created.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"readOnly": true,
"example": "2012-02-22T02:06:58.147Z"
},
"project": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ProjectCompact"
},
"projects": {
"description": "*Deprecated - please use project instead*",
"type": "array",
"readOnly": true,
"items": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/ProjectCompact"
}
}
}
}
]
}
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"personalAccessToken": {
"type": "http",
"description": "A personal access token allows access to the api for the user who created it. This should be kept a secret and be treated like a password.",
"scheme": "bearer"
},
"oauth2": {
"type": "oauth2",
"description": "We require that applications designed to access the Asana API on behalf of multiple users implement OAuth 2.0.\nAsana supports the Authorization Code Grant flow.",
"flows": {
"authorizationCode": {
"authorizationUrl": "https://app.asana.com/-/oauth_authorize",
"tokenUrl": "https://app.asana.com/-/oauth_token",
"refreshUrl": "https://app.asana.com/-/oauth_token",
"scopes": {
"default": "Provides access to all endpoints documented in our API reference. If no scopes are requested, this scope is assumed by default.",
"openid": "Provides access to OpenID Connect ID tokens and the OpenID Connect user info endpoint.",
"email": "Provides access to the user’s email through the OpenID Connect user info endpoint.",
"profile": "Provides access to the user’s name and profile photo through the OpenID Connect user info endpoint.",
"attachments:read": "View access to attachments",
"attachments:write": "Create and modify access to attachments",
"attachments:delete": "Delete access to attachments",
"custom_fields:read": "View access to custom fields",
"custom_fields:write": "Create and modify access to custom fields",
"goals:read": "View access to goals",
"jobs:read": "View access to jobs",
"ooo_entries:read": "View access to OOO entries",
"ooo_entries:write": "Create and modify access to OOO entries",
"ooo_entries:delete": "Delete access to OOO entries",
"tasks:read": "View access to tasks",
"tasks:write": "Create and modify access to tasks",
"tasks:delete": "Delete access to tasks",
"task_custom_types:read": "View access to task custom types",
"task_templates:read": "View access to task templates",
"team_memberships:read": "View access to team memberships",
"portfolios:read": "View access to portfolios",
"portfolios:write": "Create and modify access to portfolios",
"project_templates:read": "View access to project templates",
"project_portfolio_settings:read": "View access to project portfolio settings",
"project_portfolio_settings:write": "Create and modify access to project portfolio settings",
"projects:delete": "Delete access to projects",
"projects:read": "View access to projects",
"projects:write": "Create and modify access to projects",
"roles:read": "View access to roles",
"roles:write": "Create and modify access to roles",
"roles:delete": "Delete access to roles",
"users:read": "View access to users",
"teams:read": "View access to teams",
"time_tracking_categories:read": "View access to time tracking categories",
"time_tracking_categories:write": "Create and modify access to time tracking categories",
"time_tracking_categories:delete": "Delete access to time tracking categories",
"time_tracking_entries:read": "View access to time tracking entries",
"timesheet_approval_statuses:read": "View access to timesheet approval statuses",
"timesheet_approval_statuses:write": "Create and modify access to timesheet approval statuses",
"stories:read": "View access to stories",
"stories:write": "Create and modify access to stories",
"tags:read": "View access to tags",
"tags:write": "Create and modify access to tags",
"webhooks:read": "View access to webhooks",
"webhooks:write": "Create and modify access to webhooks",
"webhooks:delete": "Delete access to webhooks",
"workspaces:read": "View access to workspaces"
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"paths": {
"/projects/{project_gid}/sections": {
"parameters": [
{
"$ref": "#/components/parameters/project_path_gid"
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"post": {
"summary": "Create a section in a project",
"description": "Creates a new section in a project.\nReturns the full record of the newly created section.",
"tags": [
"Sections"
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"operationId": "createSectionForProject",
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"created_at",
"name",
"project",
"project.name",
"projects",
"projects.name"
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"project.name",
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"requestBody": {
"description": "The section to create.",
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"data": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/SectionRequest"
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"responses": {
"201": {
"description": "Successfully created the specified section.",
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"data": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/SectionResponse"
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"400": {
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"401": {
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"403": {
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"404": {
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"500": {
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"language": "java",
"install": "<dependency><groupId>com.asana</groupId><artifactId>asana</artifactId><version>1.0.0</version></dependency>",
"code": "import com.asana.Client;\n\nClient client = Client.accessToken(\"PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN\");\n\nSection result = client.sections.createSectionForProject(projectGid)\n .data(\"field\", \"value\")\n .data(\"field\", \"value\")\n .option(\"pretty\", true)\n .execute();"
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"code": "const Asana = require('asana');\n\nlet client = new Asana.ApiClient();\nclient.authentications.token.accessToken = '<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>';\n\nlet sectionsApiInstance = new Asana.SectionsApi(client);\nlet project_gid = \"1331\"; // String | Globally unique identifier for the project.\nlet opts = { \n 'body': {\"data\": {\"<PARAM_1>\": \"<VALUE_1>\", \"<PARAM_2>\": \"<VALUE_2>\",}}, \n 'opt_fields': \"created_at,name,project,project.name,projects,projects.name\"\n};\nsectionsApiInstance.createSectionForProject(project_gid, opts).then((result) => {\n console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + JSON.stringify(result.data, null, 2));\n}, (error) => {\n console.error(error.response.body);\n});",
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"code": "const asana = require('asana');\n\nconst client = asana.Client.create().useAccessToken('PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN');\n\nclient.sections.createSectionForProject(projectGid, {field: \"value\", field: \"value\", pretty: true})\n .then((result) => {\n console.log(result);\n });",
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"code": "import asana\nfrom asana.rest import ApiException\nfrom pprint import pprint\n\nconfiguration = asana.Configuration()\nconfiguration.access_token = '<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>'\napi_client = asana.ApiClient(configuration)\n\n# create an instance of the API class\nsections_api_instance = asana.SectionsApi(api_client)\nproject_gid = \"1331\" # str | Globally unique identifier for the project.\nopts = {\n 'body': {\"data\": {\"<PARAM_1>\": \"<VALUE_1>\", \"<PARAM_2>\": \"<VALUE_2>\",}}, # dict | The section to create.\n 'opt_fields': \"created_at,name,project,project.name,projects,projects.name\", # list[str] | This endpoint returns a resource which excludes some properties by default. To include those optional properties, set this query parameter to a comma-separated list of the properties you wish to include.\n}\n\ntry:\n # Create a section in a project\n api_response = sections_api_instance.create_section_for_project(project_gid, opts)\n pprint(api_response)\nexcept ApiException as e:\n print(\"Exception when calling SectionsApi->create_section_for_project: %s\\n\" % e)",
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"code": "import asana\n\nclient = asana.Client.access_token('PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN')\n\nresult = client.sections.create_section_for_project(project_gid, {'field': 'value', 'field': 'value'}, opt_pretty=True)",
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"code": "<?php\nrequire 'vendor/autoload.php';\n\n$client = Asana\\Client::accessToken('PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN');\n\n$result = $client->sections->createSectionForProject($project_gid, array('field' => 'value', 'field' => 'value'), array('opt_pretty' => 'true'))"
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"language": "ruby",
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"code": "require 'asana'\n\nclient = Asana::Client.new do |c|\n c.authentication :access_token, 'PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN'\nend\n\nresult = client.sections.create_section_for_project(project_gid: 'project_gid', field: \"value\", field: \"value\", options: {pretty: true})"
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