> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://apidocs.document360.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create a variable

> The `user_id` body field is required when authenticating with an M2M token unless the
request includes the `X-Acting-User-Id` header (requires the `customerApi.actAsUser`
scope) or the caller presents a user access token. Variables are unique by `name` within
the project for the same `is_global` mode. For a global variable,
the `language_code` you send is stored and returned by later `GET` calls.
A later edit of the entry in the Portal clears that stored code, so `GET` then returns an empty `language_code`.

## OpenAPI

````json POST /v3/projects/{project_id}/variables
{
  "openapi": "3.0.1",
  "info": {
    "title": "Document360 Customer API",
    "description": "Document360 RESTful APIs let you integrate your documentation with your software — onboard readers, manage articles, automate publishing, and more.\n\nFull reference: [API Documentation](https://apidocs.document360.io/docs).\n\n## Authentication\nV3 authenticates with an **API key** — not the `api_token` used by V1/V2. Create one in the Document360 portal under **Settings → Knowledge base portal → API keys**, then click **Create API key**. (Projects that still have the older screen show two tabs; choose **Enhanced keys (v3)**, or pick **API v3** from the Create menu.)\n\nSend it in the `X-API-Key` header:\n\n```\nX-API-Key: d360_sk_...\n```\n\nThe plaintext key is shown **once**, at creation — only its hash is stored, so a lost key must be replaced rather than recovered. Each key carries a fixed portal role, content role and content-access scope, supports an optional expiry, and can be disabled or deleted at any time from the same screen. Treat it as an opaque string: it is a pre-shared secret, not an OAuth 2.0 access token, and must not be parsed.\n\nFor flows that act on behalf of a specific person, V3 also accepts an OAuth 2.0 bearer token carrying the `customerApi` scope.\n\nAPI access is part of your subscription plan. If your plan does not include it, every endpoint returns `403` with the error code `FEATURE_NOT_IN_LICENSE` — including for keys created while an earlier plan was active. Contact your Customer Success Manager or `support@document360.com` to enable it.\n\n> **Note on terminology:** V1/V2 call these *API tokens* and manage them under **Settings → Knowledge base portal → API tokens**. V3 keys are a separate credential with their own screen, roles and scope — a V1/V2 token will not authenticate a V3 request.\n\n## Rate Limits\nAll endpoints are rate-limited per API key per project, with separate limits for reads (`GET`/`HEAD`) and writes (`POST`/`PUT`/`PATCH`/`DELETE`). Default limits vary by plan. When rate-limited, responses include `Retry-After`, `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, and `X-RateLimit-Reset` headers. Use exponential backoff with jitter for optimal retry behavior.",
    "termsOfService": "https://document360.com/terms",
    "contact": {
      "name": "Document360 Support",
      "url": "https://document360.io/contact-us/",
      "email": "support@document360.com"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "Document360 API Terms of Use",
      "url": "https://document360.com/terms"
    },
    "version": "3.0.0"
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://apihub.document360.io",
      "description": "Document 360 API Hub"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://apihub.us.document360.io",
      "description": "Document360 API Hub - US data center"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://apihub.{private_hosting}.document360.io",
      "description": "Private hosting - Please provide the subdomain name.",
      "variables": {
        "private_hosting": {
          "default": "domain",
          "description": "Sub domain for private hosting"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "security": [
    {
      "ApiKey": []
    },
    {
      "Bearer": [
        "customerApi"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "Projects",
      "description": "List and manage knowledge base projects. Export and import project documentation, and manage project-level site customization such as custom CSS and JavaScript."
    },
    {
      "name": "Projects > Import & export",
      "description": "Start a project export or import and poll the resulting background operation for completion."
    },
    {
      "name": "Workspaces",
      "description": "Manage workspaces and access workspace-scoped categories and articles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Workspaces > AI",
      "description": "Query the workspace with Eddy AI, submit feedback on AI answers, and read that feedback with its conversation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles",
      "description": "Create, read, update, and delete knowledge base articles and their settings, including bulk operations."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles > Publishing & workflow",
      "description": "Publish and unpublish articles (single and bulk) and update the article workflow status."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles > Versions",
      "description": "List, fork, and delete article versions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles > Attachments",
      "description": "Manage the files attached to an article — list, upload, and delete article attachments."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles > Content drafts",
      "description": "(Internal) Stage AI-generated article content with an Accept/Reject review lifecycle — used by Eddy Copilot to preview content before committing to the live article body."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles > Labels",
      "description": "Read and set the labels associated with an article."
    },
    {
      "name": "Articles > Comments",
      "description": "Read and create the comment threads authors and reviewers leave on an article's content, and reply to them. Each comment id matches the `data-comment-id` attribute of the corresponding marker in the raw article content, so adding a text-anchored comment takes two calls: update the content with the marker, then create the thread with the same id."
    },
    {
      "name": "Categories",
      "description": "Manage the category hierarchy that organizes articles. Create, update, and delete categories and their settings, including bulk operations."
    },
    {
      "name": "Categories > Page category",
      "description": "Read and update the content body of page-type categories, including bulk content updates."
    },
    {
      "name": "Categories > Publishing & workflow",
      "description": "Publish and unpublish categories (single and bulk) and update the category workflow status."
    },
    {
      "name": "Categories > Versions",
      "description": "List, fork, and delete category versions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Categories > Labels",
      "description": "Read and set the labels associated with a category."
    },
    {
      "name": "Categories > Comments",
      "description": "Read and create the comment threads authors and reviewers leave on a page category's content, and reply to them. Only page-type categories carry content, so other category types return `404`. Adding a text-anchored comment takes two calls: update the content with the marker, then create the thread with the same id."
    },
    {
      "name": "ArticleTemplates",
      "description": "Manage reusable article templates — per-language article skeletons that authors and AI tools (such as Eddy Copilot) can apply when starting a new article.",
      "x-displayName": "Article templates"
    },
    {
      "name": "Content reuse > Glossaries",
      "description": "Manage glossary entries — terminology definitions referenced inside articles via merge codes (`{{glossary.name}}`) and rendered as tooltips on the public KB."
    },
    {
      "name": "Content reuse > Snippets",
      "description": "Manage reusable snippets — markdown or WYSIWYG content fragments referenced across articles via merge codes (`{{snippet.name}}`)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Content reuse > Variables",
      "description": "Manage reusable variables — short text values referenced across articles via merge codes (`{{variable.name}}`)."
    },
    {
      "name": "AiWriterStyleGuides",
      "description": "Retrieve AI writer style guides configured for the project — voice / tone instructions Eddy Copilot follows when generating article content. Used to let users pick a style before kicking off generation.",
      "x-displayName": "AI writer style guides"
    },
    {
      "name": "RedirectRules",
      "description": "Manage article-redirection rules — 301/302 redirects from old article URLs to new locations after renames or restructures.",
      "x-displayName": "Redirect rules"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tags",
      "description": "Manage tags — labels used to classify articles, categories, and files for filtering and discovery."
    },
    {
      "name": "Labels",
      "description": "Manage labels shown on the article list and category tree. (Associating labels with a specific article or category lives under Articles and Categories.)"
    },
    {
      "name": "MirroredArticles",
      "description": "List, read and create mirrored articles — read-only copies of a source article placed in other categories or workspaces of the project, including bulk mirroring."
    },
    {
      "name": "CustomFields",
      "description": "Retrieve the custom field definitions configured for the project. Custom field values are read and written through the article and category settings endpoints.",
      "x-displayName": "Custom fields"
    },
    {
      "name": "ApiReferences",
      "description": "Import, resync, and publish OpenAPI/Swagger specifications for API reference documentation.",
      "x-displayName": "API references"
    },
    {
      "name": "ApiReferences > Logs",
      "description": "Monitor API reference import logs and inspect individual log entries."
    },
    {
      "name": "Drive",
      "description": "Search Drive and retrieve files associated with an article, and track Drive background tasks."
    },
    {
      "name": "Drive > Folders",
      "description": "Create, read, update, and delete Drive folders."
    },
    {
      "name": "Drive > Files",
      "description": "Upload, copy, move, delete, and tag Drive files."
    },
    {
      "name": "Drive > Image drafts",
      "description": "(Internal) Stage uploaded or AI-generated images (committed to Drive and associated with a staged article draft) — used by Eddy Copilot."
    },
    {
      "name": "Readers",
      "description": "Manage reader accounts, invitations, and access scopes for private documentation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Readers > Groups",
      "description": "Create, read, update, and delete reader groups."
    },
    {
      "name": "Users",
      "description": "Manage users, their portal and content roles, and consolidated (effective) permissions within a project."
    },
    {
      "name": "Users > Groups",
      "description": "Manage user groups, their portal role, and consolidated (effective) group permissions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Roles",
      "description": "Create, read, update, and delete portal and content roles, list the users assigned to a role, and retrieve the permission dependency matrix."
    },
    {
      "name": "ContentAccess",
      "description": "Manage per-node content-access permissions — grant, allow, deny, and inheritance overrides for users and groups against specific versions, languages, categories, or articles, plus version/language site protection.",
      "x-displayName": "Content access"
    },
    {
      "name": "ContentAccess > Eligibility",
      "description": "List the readers and groups eligible to be granted content access."
    },
    {
      "name": "Languages",
      "description": "Retrieve configured languages for a workspace."
    },
    {
      "name": "Translations",
      "description": "Query translation status of articles across languages."
    },
    {
      "name": "Operations",
      "description": "Track asynchronous operations — long-running tasks (bulk updates, merges, exports) accepted with `202 Accepted` and an `Operation-Location` header. Poll until the operation reaches a terminal status, honouring the `Retry-After` header."
    },
    {
      "name": "AgentAssist",
      "description": "Back end for the Document360 Zendesk app's per-agent mode: workspace, category, article, search and Eddy AI reads executed as the signed-in support agent, plus article and category creation attributed to them.",
      "x-displayName": "Agent assist (Zendesk)"
    },
    {
      "name": "ZendeskAppAuth",
      "description": "(Internal) Per-agent Document360 sign-in for the Zendesk app: begin a sign-in, receive the Identity callback, claim the agent's session handle, and check or end that session.",
      "x-displayName": "Zendesk app sign-in"
    },
    {
      "name": "ZendeskAppAttestation",
      "description": "(Internal) The Zendesk app's signed background page: verifies the app token Zendesk signs for the agent at the keyboard and hands the app a short-lived agent pass that lets a sign-in complete silently.",
      "x-displayName": "Zendesk app attestation"
    },
    {
      "name": "ZendeskAppConnect",
      "description": "(Internal) Completes connecting a project's Zendesk account for silent agent sign-in: the OAuth callback Zendesk redirects the approving admin to.",
      "x-displayName": "Zendesk account connection"
    },
    {
      "name": "Analytics > Articles",
      "description": "View article performance metrics including views, top articles, reader locations, and category breakdowns."
    },
    {
      "name": "Analytics > Search",
      "description": "View search usage metrics including top keywords, no-result queries, and bounced searches."
    },
    {
      "name": "Analytics > AI search",
      "description": "View AI-powered search metrics including usage trends, most-referenced articles, and trending topics."
    },
    {
      "name": "FeedbackManagement",
      "description": "Manage reader feedback on articles and page categories — list it, read a record, page through its team discussions, and update its status (including closing it) and assignee to sync it with external issue trackers.",
      "x-displayName": "Feedback management"
    },
    {
      "name": "Analytics > Feedback",
      "description": "View reader feedback trends across articles, including top-performing articles and feedback keywords."
    }
  ],
  "externalDocs": {
    "description": "Document360 API Documentation",
    "url": "https://apidocs.document360.io/docs"
  },
  "x-tagGroups": [
    {
      "name": "Workspace",
      "tags": [
        "Projects",
        "Projects > Import & export",
        "Workspaces",
        "Workspaces > AI"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Content",
      "tags": [
        "Articles",
        "Articles > Publishing & workflow",
        "Articles > Versions",
        "Articles > Attachments",
        "Articles > Content drafts",
        "Articles > Labels",
        "Categories",
        "Categories > Page category",
        "Categories > Publishing & workflow",
        "Categories > Versions",
        "Categories > Labels",
        "ArticleTemplates",
        "AiWriterStyleGuides",
        "RedirectRules",
        "Tags",
        "Labels",
        "ApiReferences",
        "ApiReferences > Logs",
        "FeedbackManagement"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Content reuse",
      "tags": [
        "Content reuse > Glossaries",
        "Content reuse > Snippets",
        "Content reuse > Variables"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Media",
      "tags": [
        "Drive",
        "Drive > Folders",
        "Drive > Files",
        "Drive > Image drafts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Access",
      "tags": [
        "Readers",
        "Readers > Groups",
        "Users",
        "Users > Groups",
        "Roles",
        "ContentAccess",
        "ContentAccess > Eligibility"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Localization",
      "tags": [
        "Languages",
        "Translations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Operations",
      "tags": [
        "Operations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Integrations",
      "tags": [
        "AgentAssist",
        "ZendeskAppAuth",
        "ZendeskAppAttestation",
        "ZendeskAppConnect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Analytics",
      "tags": [
        "Analytics > Articles",
        "Analytics > Search",
        "Analytics > AI search",
        "Analytics > Feedback"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/v3/projects/{project_id}/variables": {
      "post": {
        "tags": [
          "Content reuse > Variables"
        ],
        "summary": "Create a variable.",
        "description": "The `user_id` body field is required when authenticating with an M2M token unless the\r\nrequest includes the `X-Acting-User-Id` header (requires the `customerApi.actAsUser`\r\nscope) or the caller presents a user access token. Variables are unique by `name` within\r\nthe project for the same `is_global` mode. For a global variable,\r\nthe `language_code` you send is stored and returned by later `GET` calls.\r\nA later edit of the entry in the Portal clears that stored code, so `GET` then returns an empty `language_code`.",
        "operationId": "createVariable",
        "parameters": [
          {
            "$ref": "#/components/parameters/ProjectId"
          }
        ],
        "requestBody": {
          "description": "The variable creation request.",
          "content": {
            "application/json": {
              "schema": {
                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/VariableRequest"
              },
              "example": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\"><head><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><title>Document360</title><style>body{font:14px -apple-system,Segoe UI,Roboto,sans-serif;margin:0;padding:48px 24px;text-align:center;color:#1f2933}</style></head><body><p>Your Zendesk account is connected to Document360. You can close this window.</p><script>window.close();</script></body></html>",
              "examples": {
                "Global variable": {
                  "summary": "Creates a variable with one value shared across every language. The <code>language_code</code> (the authoring language) is stored and returned by later <code>GET</code> calls.",
                  "value": {
                    "name": "product_name",
                    "is_global": true,
                    "language_code": "en",
                    "value": "Document360",
                    "languages": null,
                    "user_id": null
                  }
                },
                "Per-language variable": {
                  "summary": "Creates a variable with distinct values per language.",
                  "value": {
                    "name": "support_email",
                    "is_global": false,
                    "language_code": null,
                    "value": null,
                    "languages": [
                      {
                        "language_code": "en",
                        "value": "support@document360.io",
                        "is_main": true
                      },
                      {
                        "language_code": "fr",
                        "value": "assistance@document360.io",
                        "is_main": false
                      }
                    ],
                    "user_id": null
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "responses": {
          "201": {
            "description": "Variable created successfully.",
            "headers": {
              "Location": {
                "description": "URL of the newly created resource.",
                "schema": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uri"
                }
              },
              "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
                "description": "The maximum number of requests allowed in the current time window for this request's bucket. Read requests (GET/HEAD) and write requests (POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE) have independent limits, applied per caller (API key or user) per project.",
                "schema": {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "format": "int32"
                }
              },
              "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
                "description": "The number of requests remaining in the current time window. When this reaches 0, subsequent requests receive a 429 response.",
                "schema": {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "format": "int32"
                }
              }
            },
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/VariableDetailResponseApiResponse"
                },
                "examples": {
                  "Variable detail": {
                    "summary": "Full variable including the count of articles referencing it. For a global variable, <code>language_code</code> is the stored authoring language.",
                    "value": {
                      "data": {
                        "value": "Document360",
                        "languages": null,
                        "dependency_article_count": 8,
                        "id": "9a3b4c5d-6e7f-8a9b-0c1d-2e3f4a5b6c7d",
                        "name": "product_name",
                        "merge_code_value": "{{variable.product_name}}",
                        "is_global": true,
                        "language_code": "en",
                        "created_at": "2025-01-15T09:30:00Z",
                        "created_by": "user_a1b2c3",
                        "modified_at": null,
                        "modified_by": null
                      },
                      "success": true,
                      "request_id": "req_abc123def456",
                      "errors": null,
                      "warnings": null
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "401": {
            "description": "Authentication token is missing or invalid.",
            "headers": {
              "WWW-Authenticate": {
                "description": "Indicates the authentication scheme required. Returns `Bearer` with optional `error` and `error_description` parameters per RFC 6750.",
                "schema": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              }
            },
            "content": {
              "application/problem+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "allOf": [
                    {
                      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/V3ProblemDetails"
                    },
                    {
                      "type": "object",
                      "properties": {
                        "type": {
                          "enum": [
                            "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/unauthorized"
                          ],
                          "type": "string",
                          "description": "RFC 7807 error type URI. Always `https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/unauthorized` for 401 responses."
                        },
                        "status": {
                          "enum": [
                            401
                          ],
                          "type": "integer",
                          "description": "HTTP status code. Always `401` for this response.",
                          "format": "int32"
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "examples": {
                  "Missing or invalid token": {
                    "summary": "Authentication token is missing or invalid.",
                    "value": {
                      "type": "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/unauthorized",
                      "title": "Unauthorized.",
                      "status": 401,
                      "detail": "The authentication token is missing or has expired.",
                      "instance": null,
                      "trace_id": "req_abc123def456",
                      "errors": [
                        {
                          "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
                          "message": "Bearer token is missing or invalid.",
                          "field": null,
                          "details": null
                        }
                      ],
                      "warnings": null
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "403": {
            "description": "Token lacks the required content permission, or the project's license plan does not include this feature.",
            "content": {
              "application/problem+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "allOf": [
                    {
                      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/V3ProblemDetails"
                    },
                    {
                      "type": "object",
                      "properties": {
                        "type": {
                          "enum": [
                            "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/forbidden"
                          ],
                          "type": "string",
                          "description": "RFC 7807 error type URI. Always `https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/forbidden` for 403 responses."
                        },
                        "status": {
                          "enum": [
                            403
                          ],
                          "type": "integer",
                          "description": "HTTP status code. Always `403` for this response.",
                          "format": "int32"
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "examples": {
                  "Insufficient permissions": {
                    "summary": "Insufficient permissions for this resource.",
                    "value": {
                      "type": "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/forbidden",
                      "title": "Forbidden.",
                      "status": 403,
                      "detail": "You do not have permission to perform this action.",
                      "instance": null,
                      "trace_id": "req_abc123def456",
                      "errors": [
                        {
                          "code": "FORBIDDEN",
                          "message": "Insufficient permissions for this project.",
                          "field": null,
                          "details": null
                        }
                      ],
                      "warnings": null
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "409": {
            "description": "A variable with the same `name` already exists in the project for the same `is_global` mode.",
            "content": {
              "application/problem+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "allOf": [
                    {
                      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/V3ProblemDetails"
                    },
                    {
                      "type": "object",
                      "properties": {
                        "type": {
                          "enum": [
                            "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/conflict"
                          ],
                          "type": "string",
                          "description": "RFC 7807 error type URI. Always `https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/conflict` for 409 responses."
                        },
                        "status": {
                          "enum": [
                            409
                          ],
                          "type": "integer",
                          "description": "HTTP status code. Always `409` for this response.",
                          "format": "int32"
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "examples": {
                  "Conflict": {
                    "summary": "The operation conflicts with the current state of the resource.",
                    "value": {
                      "type": "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/conflict",
                      "title": "Conflict.",
                      "status": 409,
                      "detail": "The operation conflicts with the current state of the resource.",
                      "instance": null,
                      "trace_id": "req_abc123def456",
                      "errors": [
                        {
                          "code": "CONFLICT",
                          "message": "A resource with the same identifier already exists.",
                          "field": null,
                          "details": null
                        }
                      ],
                      "warnings": null
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "422": {
            "description": "Validation failed.",
            "content": {
              "application/problem+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "allOf": [
                    {
                      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/V3ProblemDetails"
                    },
                    {
                      "type": "object",
                      "properties": {
                        "type": {
                          "enum": [
                            "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/validation-error"
                          ],
                          "type": "string",
                          "description": "RFC 7807 error type URI. Always `https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/validation-error` for 422 responses."
                        },
                        "status": {
                          "enum": [
                            422
                          ],
                          "type": "integer",
                          "description": "HTTP status code. Always `422` for this response.",
                          "format": "int32"
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "examples": {
                  "Validation failed": {
                    "summary": "One or more request fields failed validation.",
                    "value": {
                      "type": "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/validation-error",
                      "title": "Validation Error",
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                          "enum": [
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                      "type": "object",
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                        "type": {
                          "enum": [
                            "https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/internal-server-error"
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                          "type": "string",
                          "description": "RFC 7807 error type URI. Always `https://apidocs.document360.io/apidocs/errors/internal-server-error` for 500 responses."
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                        "status": {
                          "enum": [
                            500
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                          "type": "integer",
                          "description": "HTTP status code. Always `500` for this response.",
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                      "instance": null,
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                          "code": "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR",
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                          "field": null,
                          "details": null
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      "ApiWarning": {
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          "message"
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