---
title: "Create whiteboard"
method: POST
path: "/whiteboards"
tags: ["Whiteboard"]
---

# Create whiteboard

`POST /whiteboards`

Creates a whiteboard in the space.

**[Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/_AozKw) required**:
Permission to view the corresponding space. Permission to create a whiteboard in the space.

## Query parameters

- `private` boolean

## Request body

- object
  - `spaceId` string, required — ID of the space.
  - `title` string — Title of the whiteboard.
  - `parentId` string — The parent content ID of the whiteboard.
  - `templateKey` '2x2-prioritization' | '4ls-retro' | 'annual-calendar' | 'brainwriting' | 'concept-map' | 'crazy-8s' | 'daily-sync' | 'disruptive-brainstorm' | 'dot-voting' | 'elevator-pitch' | 'flow-chart' | 'gap-analysis' | 'ice-breakers' | 'incident-postmortem' | 'journey-mapping-kit' | 'kanban-board' | 'lean-coffee' | 'network-of-teams' | 'org-chart' | 'pi-planning' | 'prioritization' | 'prioritization-experiment' | 'product-roadmap' | 'product-vision-board' | 'rice' | 'sailboat-retro' | 'service-blueprint' | 'simple-retrospective' | 'sprint-planning' | 'sticky-note-pack' | 'swimlanes' | 'team-formation-guide' | 'timeline' | 'timeline-workflow' | 'user-story-map' | 'workflow' | 'vision-board' | 'venn-diagram' | 'storyboard' | 'action-plan' | 'root-cause-analysis' | 'executive-summary' | 'stakeholder-mapping' | 'annual-calendar-2025-2026' | 'health-monitor' | 'okr-planning' | 'swot-analysis' | 'poker-planning' | 'fishbone-diagram' | 'risk-assessment' | 'bounded-context' | 'hopes-and-fears' | 'swimlane-vertical' — Providing a template key will add that template to the new whiteboard.
  - `locale` 'de-DE' | 'cs-CZ' | 'ko-KR' | 'fr-FR' | 'it-IT' | 'ja-JP' | 'nl-NL' | 'nb-NO' | 'da-DK' | 'sv-SE' | 'fi-FI' | 'ru-RU' | 'pl-PL' | 'tr-TR' | 'hu-HU' | 'en-GB' | 'en-US' | 'pt-BR' | 'zh-CN' | 'zh-TW' | 'es-ES' — If templateKey is provided, locale will decide which language the template will be created with. If locale is omitted, the user's locale will be used.

## Response `200`

Returned if the whiteboard was successfully created.

- object
  - `id` string — ID of the whiteboard.
  - `type` string — The content type of the object.
  - `status` 'current' | 'draft' | 'archived' | 'historical' | 'trashed' | 'deleted' | 'any' — The status of the content.
  - `title` string — Title of the whiteboard.
  - `parentId` string — ID of the parent content, or null if there is no parent content.
  - `parentType` 'page' | 'whiteboard' | 'database' | 'embed' | 'folder' — Content type of the parent, or null if there is no parent.
  - `position` integer, nullable — Position of the whiteboard within the given parent page tree.
  - `authorId` string — The account ID of the user who created this whiteboard originally.
  - `ownerId` string — The account ID of the user who owns this whiteboard.
  - `createdAt` string, date-time — Date and time when the whiteboard was created. In format "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ".
  - `spaceId` string — ID of the space the whiteboard is in.
  - `version` Version
    - `createdAt` string, date-time — Date and time when the version was created. In format "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ".
    - `message` string — Message associated with the current version.
    - `number` integer — The version number.
    - `minorEdit` boolean — Describes if this version is a minor version. Email notifications and activity stream updates are not created for minor versions.
    - `authorId` string — The account ID of the user who created this version.
  - `_links` object
    - `webui` string — Web UI link of the content.
    - `editui` string — Edit UI link of the content.
    - `base` string — Base url of the Confluence site.

## Other responses

- `400` — Returned if an invalid request is provided.
- `401` — Returned if the authentication credentials are incorrect or missing from the request.
- `404` — Returned if: - The space does not exist - The user does not have permissions to view the space - The user does not have the needed permissions to create a whiteboard in the provided space
- `413` — Returned if the request is too large in size (over 5 MB).

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