---
title: "Create Role"
method: POST
path: "/servers/{target}/roles"
tags: ["Server Permissions"]
---

# Create Role

`POST /servers/{target}/roles`

Creates a new server role.

## Path parameters

- `target` string, required

## Headers

- `X-Audit-Log-Reason` string

## Request body

- DataCreateRole — Information about new role to create
  - `name` string, required — Role name
  - `rank` integer, nullable — Ranking position Smaller values take priority. **Removed** - no effect, use the edit server role positions route

## Response `200`

- NewRoleResponse — Response after creating new role
  - `id` string, required — Id of the role
  - `role` Role, required — Role
    - `_id` string, required — Unique Id
    - `name` string, required — Role name
    - `permissions` OverrideField, required — Representation of a single permission override as it appears on models and in the database
      - `a` integer, required — Allow bit flags
      - `d` integer, required — Disallow bit flags
    - `colour` string, nullable — Colour used for this role This can be any valid CSS colour
    - `hoist` boolean — Whether this role should be shown separately on the member sidebar
    - `rank` integer — Ranking of this role
    - `icon` File — File
      - `_id` string, required — Unique Id
      - `tag` string, required — Tag / bucket this file was uploaded to
      - `filename` string, required — Original filename
      - `metadata` union, required — Metadata associated with a file
        - object — File is just a generic uncategorised file
          - `type` 'File', required
        - object — File contains textual data and should be displayed as such
          - `type` 'Text', required
        - object — File is an image with specific dimensions, and may be animated
          - `type` 'Image', required
          - `width` integer, required
          - `height` integer, required
          - `thumbhash` integer[], nullable
          - `animated` boolean, nullable
        - object — File is a video with specific dimensions
          - `type` 'Video', required
          - `width` integer, required
          - `height` integer, required
        - object — File is audio
          - `type` 'Audio', required
      - `content_type` string, required — Raw content type of this file
      - `size` integer, required — Size of this file (in bytes)
      - `deleted` boolean, nullable — Whether this file was deleted
      - `reported` boolean, nullable — Whether this file was reported
      - `message_id` string, nullable
      - `user_id` string, nullable
      - `server_id` string, nullable
      - `object_id` string, nullable — Id of the object this file is associated with

## Other responses

- `default` — An error occurred.

---

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