> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.eka.care/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a task > Creates a task by hand on an admission or a discharge, now or at `start_at`. A task with `every` repeats on that schedule. ## OpenAPI ````yaml api-reference/doc-tool/ipd-api/protocol-openapi.json post /protocol/workflow/tasks openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Eka Protocol API version: '1.0' description: >- Hospital workflows for IPD: rules, the tasks they create, and the forms filled on an admission. servers: - description: Production url: https://api.eka.care - description: Stage/Sandbox url: https://api.dev.eka.care security: [] tags: - name: Tasks description: >- Workflow tasks at a hospital. Rules create them; users claim, release, complete and cancel them here. Task documents are also readable live from Firestore (`protocol/{bid}/tasks`) through `@orbi/protocol-sdk`; every change goes through this API. - name: Forms description: >- Forms filled on an entity (today: an admission, the IPD Forms tab) and what happened to each. - name: Rules description: >- Hospital workflow rules: events → conditions → tasks. Each save is a new version, compiled to a workflow. - name: Catalog description: The events and fields rules are written against. - name: Events description: 'Fire an event for a scope: every active rule on it starts a run.' - name: SA forms description: >- The hospital's SA forms (its own and the system ones), with versions and archiving. - name: SA form drafts description: SA forms saved before they are ready. Not offered in IPD until published. - name: AI drafts description: Draft an SA form from a prompt or a file with AI. paths: /protocol/workflow/tasks: post: tags: - Tasks summary: Create a task description: >- Creates a task by hand on an admission or a discharge, now or at `start_at`. A task with `every` repeats on that schedule. operationId: postTasks parameters: - name: auth in: header required: true description: >- The access token. The gateway verifies it and passes the user and the business on. schema: type: string requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: scope: type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - ADMISSION - DISCHARGE id: type: string minLength: 1 required: - type - id additionalProperties: false task: type: object properties: task_type: type: string enum: - VITALS - DOCTOR_NOTES - NURSING_NOTES - MEDICAL_HISTORY - EMAR_MEDICATION_DOSE - FORM form_kind: type: string enum: - SA - CONSENT - MCERT sa_id: type: string pattern: ^\d+$ template_id: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 200 title: type: string minLength: 1 description: type: string maxLength: 1000 payload: type: object additionalProperties: anyOf: - type: - string - number - boolean - 'null' - type: array items: {} - type: object additionalProperties: {} requiredness: type: string enum: - MANDATORY - OPTIONAL blocking: type: boolean audience_keys: anyOf: - type: array items: type: string pattern: ^(PERSONA:(D|S|AD)|USER:\S+)$ - type: 'null' estimate: anyOf: - type: string pattern: >- ^P(?!$)(\d+Y)?(\d+M)?(\d+W)?(\d+D)?(T(?=\d)(\d+H)?(\d+M)?(\d+S)?)?$ - type: 'null' every: anyOf: - type: string pattern: >- ^P(?!$)(\d+Y)?(\d+M)?(\d+W)?(\d+D)?(T(?=\d)(\d+H)?(\d+M)?(\d+S)?)?$ - type: 'null' due_in: anyOf: - type: string pattern: >- ^P(?!$)(\d+Y)?(\d+M)?(\d+W)?(\d+D)?(T(?=\d)(\d+H)?(\d+M)?(\d+S)?)?$ - type: 'null' escalation: anyOf: - type: object properties: after: type: string pattern: >- ^P(?!$)(\d+Y)?(\d+M)?(\d+W)?(\d+D)?(T(?=\d)(\d+H)?(\d+M)?(\d+S)?)?$ audience_keys: type: array items: type: string pattern: ^(PERSONA:(D|S|AD)|USER:\S+)$ minItems: 1 title: type: string required: - after - audience_keys additionalProperties: false - type: 'null' required: - task_type additionalProperties: false start_at: type: string workflow: type: string const: adhoc_task required: - scope - task additionalProperties: false responses: '201': description: Success. content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: status: type: string const: success data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TaskCreateResult' required: - status - data '401': description: No signed-in user, or no business on the session. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '409': description: Not in a state for this. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '422': description: The request failed validation; `details` names each invalid path. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' components: schemas: TaskCreateResult: type: object properties: run_id: type: string workflow: type: string starts_in_s: type: number repeats: type: boolean required: - run_id - workflow - starts_in_s - repeats Error: type: object properties: status: type: string const: error error: type: object properties: code: type: string message: type: string details: type: array items: type: object properties: path: type: string message: type: string required: - path - message required: - code - message required: - status - error ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.