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    Download API definition:
    Create Report
    POST https://qa-api.bentley.com/insights/reporting/reports/

    Creates a Report within the context of a Project.

    Authentication

    Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

    For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

    Authorization

    User must have insights_modify permission(s) assigned at the Project level. iModel specific permissions may also be applied at the iModel level if iModel level permissions are enabled.

    Alternatively the user should be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or iModel.

    An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

    Rate limits

    All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit Rate limits and quotas page.

    Request

    Request headers

    Name
    Required?
    Description
    Authorization
    Yes

    OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

    Accept
    No

    Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

    Request body

    Report (create)

    Name
    Type
    Required?
    Description
    displayName
    String
    No

    Name of the Report.

    description
    String
    No

    Description of the Report.

    projectId
    String
    No

    The Project Id this Report will be drawing data from.

    Example

    json
    {
    "displayName": "iModel Report",
    "description": "Report containing iModel Mappings",
    "projectId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6"
}

    Response

    Response 200 OK

    Created a new Report successfully.

    json
    {
    "report": {
        "id": "617c13fd-2547-4d85-87a3-28f21f29daf2",
        "displayName": "iModel Report",
        "description": "Report containing iModel Mappings",
        "createdOn": "2022-09-01T15:20:10+00:00",
        "modifiedOn": "2022-09-02T12:03:00+00:00",
        "deleted": false,
        "_links": {
            "project": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/projects/3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6"
            },
            "odata": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/insights/reporting/odata/3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6?api-version=v1"
            }
        }
    }
}

    Response 401 Unauthorized

    This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

    json
    {
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

    Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

    The 422 (Unprocessable Entity) status code indicates that the request cannot be processed by the server due to a client error (e.g. malformed request syntax).

    json
    {
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidInsightsRequest",
        "message": "Error message."
    }
}

    Response 429 Too many requests

    This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

    json
    {
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

    Response headers

    Name
    Description
    retry-after

    The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

    Definitions

    Report (create)

    Properties of the Report to be created.

    Name
    Type
    Description
    displayName
    String

    Name of the Report.

    description
    String

    Description of the Report.

    projectId
    String

    The Project Id this Report will be drawing data from.

    Report

    Defines a unit of data that can be exposed as an OData feed. The contents of a Report are defined in Report Mappings.

    Name
    Type
    Description
    id
    String

    The Report Id.

    displayName
    String

    Name of the Report.

    description
    String

    Description of the Report.

    createdOn
    String

    Creation time of the Report.

    modifiedOn
    String

    Latest modification time of the Report.

    deleted
    Boolean

    Flag indicating whether or not a Report has been marked for deletion.

    _links.project
    Link

    URL pointing to the related Project.

    _links.odata
    Link

    Link to the OData feed.

    Report Response

    Container for a Report object.

    Name
    Type
    Description
    report
    Report

    Report properties.

    Link

    Hyperlink container.

    Name
    Type
    Description
    href
    String

    Hyperlink to the specific entity.

    Error

    Contains error information.

    Name
    Type
    Description
    code
    String

    One of a server-defined set of error codes.

    message
    String

    A human-readable representation of the error.

    target
    String, null

    The target of the error.

    Error Response

    Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

    Name
    Type
    Description
    error
    Error

    Error information.

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