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# Create a contact task

> Creates a task attached to a contact.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/specs/tasks.json post /api/contacts/tasks
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: ConveYour API — Tasks
  description: >-
    Actionable items. Two separate resources: org-level tasks assigned to users
    or teams, and contact-level tasks attached to an individual contact.
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://{subdomain}.conveyour.com
    description: Your organization's ConveYour instance
    variables:
      subdomain:
        default: acme
        description: >-
          Your organization's slug — the subdomain you sign in on. Replace
          `acme` with yours: if you sign in at `bigco.conveyour.com`, enter
          `bigco`.
security:
  - conveyourToken: []
paths:
  /api/contacts/tasks:
    post:
      tags:
        - Tasks
      summary: Create a contact task
      description: Creates a task attached to a contact.
      operationId: createContactTask
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/teams'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
                - contact_id
              properties:
                contact_id:
                  type: string
                  description: Contact to attach the task to. Required.
                body:
                  type: string
                  description: Task body.
                due:
                  type: integer
                  description: Due date as a Unix timestamp.
                assigned_to:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: integer
                  description: User IDs to assign.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Envelope'
                  - type: object
                    properties:
                      data:
                        $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreatedContactTask'
        '403':
          description: Forbidden — the key lacks the required permission.
components:
  parameters:
    teams:
      name: teams[]
      in: query
      description: >-
        Team scope for the request, as one or more team ObjectIds. The brackets
        are required: PHP keeps only the last value for a repeated plain key, so
        `teams=A&teams=B` silently resolves to B alone. On requests with a JSON
        body you may send `teams` (no brackets) in the body instead.


        **Values that are not valid ObjectIds are silently ignored** — a
        mistyped team ID behaves as if no team was sent. See the [teams section
        of the API conventions guide](/guides/api-conventions#team-scoping).
      style: form
      explode: true
      schema:
        type: array
        items:
          type: string
      example:
        - 64a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0ff
  schemas:
    Envelope:
      type: object
      description: The common response envelope shared by all ConveYour endpoints.
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
            - ok
            - failed
          description: '`ok` on success, `failed` on error.'
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable description of the result.
        data:
          description: >-
            The response payload — an object or an array depending on the
            endpoint.
    CreatedContactTask:
      type: object
      description: Create returns a four-key acknowledgement, not the task record.
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          description: ID of the new task.
        created_at:
          type: string
          description: Creation time, formatted 'Y-m-d H:i:s'.
        contact_id:
          type: string
          description: Contact the task is attached to.
        contact_name:
          type: string
          description: The contact's name, resolved at write time.
      required:
        - id
        - created_at
        - contact_id
        - contact_name
  securitySchemes:
    conveyourToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-conveyour-token
      description: >-
        Your API key token. Contacts endpoints require a **Server-only — Full
        API** key — see [Authentication](/quickstart).

````

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