---
title: "POST /v1/{+parent}/entryGroups"
method: POST
path: "/v1/{+parent}/entryGroups"
tags: ["projects"]
---

# POST /v1/{+parent}/entryGroups

`POST /v1/{+parent}/entryGroups`

Creates an EntryGroup.

## Path parameters

- `parent` string, required

## Query parameters

- `entryGroupId` string
- `validateOnly` boolean

## Request body

- GoogleCloudDataplexV1EntryGroup — An Entry Group represents a logical grouping of one or more Entries.
  - `updateTime` string, google-datetime — Output only. The time when the EntryGroup was last updated.
  - `createTime` string, google-datetime — Output only. The time when the EntryGroup was created.
  - `uid` string — Output only. System generated globally unique ID for the EntryGroup. If you delete and recreate the EntryGroup with the same name, this ID will be different.
  - `name` string — Output only. The relative resource name of the EntryGroup, in the format projects/{project_id_or_number}/locations/{location_id}/entryGroups/{entry_group_id}.
  - `etag` string — This checksum is computed by the service, and might be sent on update and delete requests to ensure the client has an up-to-date value before proceeding.
  - `description` string — Optional. Description of the EntryGroup.
  - `displayName` string — Optional. User friendly display name.
  - `transferStatus` 'TRANSFER_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED' | 'TRANSFER_STATUS_MIGRATED' | 'TRANSFER_STATUS_TRANSFERRED' — Output only. Denotes the transfer status of the Entry Group. It is unspecified for Entry Group created from Dataplex API.
  - `labels` object — Optional. User-defined labels for the EntryGroup.

## Response `200`

Successful response

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[API](https://skmtc.net/google/apis/dataplex.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/google/apis/dataplex/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/google/dataplex/versions/43a3b60ca93b/schema)