{"id":5062,"date":"2025-02-05T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/?page_id=5062"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:27:42","slug":"creating-a-new-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/software\/faxfinder\/web-services-api\/contact-and-group-apis\/creating-a-new-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a New Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Requires FaxFinder 3.0.4 or higher.<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=550 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>\n<tr>\n<td width=150 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>HTTP Request Line<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=400 colspan=2 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>POST \/ffws\/v1\/contact_groups\/admin HTTP\/1.1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=150 rowspan=3 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>HTTP Response Status Codes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=125 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt;padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>200 OK<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=275 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>Created new group.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=125 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>403 Forbidden<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=275 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>Authenticated user does not have permission to change data associated with username.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=125 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>400 Bad Request<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=275 valign=top style='border:solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; padding:0in .01in 0in .01in'>\n<p>The provided XML is not valid.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Example<\/h4>\n<pre class=\"brush:xml\">\r\nPOST \/ffws\/v1\/contact_groups\/admin HTTP\/1.1\r\ncontent-type: application\/xml\r\nauthorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=\r\n&lt;?xml version=\u201d1.0\u201d encoding=\u201dUTF-8\u201d?&gt;\r\n&lt;contact_group&gt;\r\n\t&lt;name&gt;New Group from API&lt;\/name&gt;\r\n\t&lt;description&gt;Can I create one from the API&lt;\/description&gt;\r\n\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/23&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/24&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/25&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/26&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n&lt;\/contact_group&gt;\r\n----------------------\r\n&lt;?xml version=\u201d1.0\u201d encoding=\u201dUTF-8\u201d?&gt;\r\n&lt;response&gt;\r\n\t&lt;message&gt;Created&lt;\/message&gt;\r\n\t&lt;contact_group&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;contact_group_url&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contact_groups\/admin\/14&lt;\/contact_group_url&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;name&gt;New Group from API&lt;\/name&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;description&gt;Can I create one from the API&lt;\/description&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/23&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/24&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/25&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t\t&lt;contact&gt;https:\/\/dot3\/ffws\/v1\/contacts\/admin\/26&lt;\/contact&gt;\r\n\t&lt;\/contact_group&gt;\r\n&lt;\/response&gt;\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requires FaxFinder 3.0.4 or higher. 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