API /custom_types does not return the status option GID

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When calling the /custom_types API endpoint

curl --request GET
–url ‘https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/custom_types?opt_fields=name,status_options,status_options.name,status_options.color,status_options.completion_state,status_options.enabled&project=’
–header ‘accept: application/json’
–header ‘authorization: Bearer ’

The response contains “gid”: “undefined” for each of the status options.
To be able to programatically access and define custom types, we need a source for the GIDs

To that end, I’m also looking forward to seeing Global Custom Types so that one GID reference can be applied across all projects.

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Example dataset result, with all status option gids as undefined.

{
“data”: [
{
“gid”: “1209633253410919”,
“name”: “Custom Status”,
“status_options”: [
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “:hollow_red_circle:Not Started”,
“enabled”: true,
“color”: “none”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “:white_check_mark:Completed”,
“enabled”: true,
“color”: “none”,
“completion_state”: “Complete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “Not Started”,
“enabled”: false,
“color”: “pink”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “Waiting”,
“enabled”: false,
“color”: “aqua”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “:pause_button:Waiting”,
“enabled”: true,
“color”: “aqua”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “:counterclockwise_arrows_button:In Progress”,
“enabled”: true,
“color”: “none”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “Post Event Follow u”,
“enabled”: false,
“color”: “orange”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “:right_arrow:Post Event Task”,
“enabled”: false,
“color”: “blue”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},
{
“gid”: “undefined”,
“name”: “:right_arrow_curving_down:Post event task”,
“enabled”: true,
“color”: “orange”,
“completion_state”: “Incomplete”
},

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Hi @Tristan_Blackburn and welcome to the forum,

(FYI I moved your post to the English Forum > Developers & API forum section which is for all developer-related and API questions.)

You have to include status_options.gid in your opt_fields list and that will get you the gids.

It’s a little odd IMO because I’m not aware of any other objects in the API where that’s the case, but it’s what’s required here.

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Interesting. Thanks @Phil_Seeman - certainly a different behaviour to other API objects and to the extent where status_options.gid isn’t present in the reference documentation Get all custom types associated with an object
I can confirm though that your solution is correct.

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