# Apparent Error in API Documentation - resource \_type

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262>\
**Category:** API & Developers\
**Created:** [22 March 2023 22:12 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262 "2023-03-22T22:12:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Troy\_Christmas](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Troy\_Christmas](https://forum.asana.com/u/Troy_Christmas)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2023 22:12 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/1 "2023-03-22T22:12:05Z")

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Thanks for the API updates and this Forum. I’m new to the API and it seems in several places the example 200 response shows the wrong resource\_type. For example for “Get Multiple Users”, the 200 response is shown as:

```auto
{
  "data": [
    {
      "gid": "12345",
      "resource_type": "task",
      "name": "Greg Sanchez"
    }
  ]
}

```

I’m sure this will get cleaned up over time, but it shows up in many places. In the interim, is there somewhere we can get a full listing of resource types so we can iterate our testing faster?

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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2023 23:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/2 "2023-03-22T23:45:22Z")

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Ping @Andrew-asana

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**Author:** ![John\_Vu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/john_vu/32/97235_2.png) [@John\_Vu](https://forum.asana.com/u/John_Vu)\
**Post date:** [24 March 2023 21:57 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/3 "2023-03-24T21:57:25Z")

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Hi @Troy_Christmas, welcome to the Asana developer community 🎉. Thank you for sharing your feedback as a new user of our API. This is valuable feedback.

Our examples in our developer docs are generated from our [OpenAPI Spec](https://github.com/Asana/openapi/blob/master/defs/asana_oas.yaml). It looks like many of our responses are inheriting the example from [our base definition of resource\_type](https://github.com/Asana/openapi/blob/master/defs/asana_oas.yaml#L1436-L1441). We have a [particular tag to override this default “task” example](https://github.com/Asana/openapi/blob/master/defs/asana_oas.yaml#L5940-L5941) and it seems like it is not working at the moment. I’ll bring this up with my team to see if we can get this resolved.

Thanks again @Troy_Christmas. Also, thanks @Phil_Seeman for pinging us.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_Christmas](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@Troy\_Christmas](https://forum.asana.com/u/Troy_Christmas)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2023 21:36 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/4 "2023-03-26T21:36:44Z")

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Thanks @John_Vu and “long time no see” @Phil_Seeman.

Relatedly, our request for a sandbox has not been replied to beyond the week time threshold we see on the website ([Developer sandbox](https://developers.asana.com/docs/developer-sandbox)). Is there any way to follow up on that?

Thanks,  
Troy

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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2023 21:47 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/5 "2023-03-26T21:47:48Z")

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Oh hi @Troy_Christmas! I knew your name looked familiar when I saw it but wasn’t sure it was you. 😀

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**Author:** ![John\_Vu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/john_vu/32/97235_2.png) [@John\_Vu](https://forum.asana.com/u/John_Vu)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 16:58 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/6 "2023-03-27T16:58:03Z")

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Hi @Troy_Christmas, thank you for bringing this up to our attention. I’ll see if I can escalate.

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**Author:** ![John\_Vu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/john_vu/32/97235_2.png) [@John\_Vu](https://forum.asana.com/u/John_Vu)\
**Post date:** [27 March 2023 22:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/7 "2023-03-27T22:55:26Z")

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@Troy_Christmas it looks like the link to request for a sandbox account in our developer documentation linked to an old request form. We’ve updated the link to the new sandbox request form. Please fill out [this form](https://form.asana.com/?k=qemgr-gcSRhXA4Hm12FgXg&d=15793206719) and our team will be able to help you get a sandbox account.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 May 2025 18:55 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/apparent-error-in-api-documentation-resource-type/377262/8 "2025-05-30T18:55:28Z")

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Closed on 30 May 2025 18:55 UTC