Trying to add item to Portfolio via API, but get 400

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Hello!

POST https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/portfolios/1147541257652193/addItem?item=190460983924346&insert_after=190460983924346

Error: Request failed with status code 400

API says the insert_after and insert_before are Required, but what if portfolio is empty?

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Please, someone help… What am i doing wrong?

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@Joe_Trollo @Ross_Grambo Can you help? I haven’t worked with the portfolios API yet.

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Hi @dgraid,

OK, I decided it was time for me to explore portfolios, so I took a look at this.

First, adding an item to a portfolio is a POST, so I don’t think you’re going to be able to send the parameters via the query string. I was not able to make that work. When I sent them in the request body, it successfully added my item. Here it is in Postman:

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Second, you do not need to include insert_before or insert_after. If you exclude them both, it adds the item as the last item in the list (or as the only item in the list if there are no others!).

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Oh! That was easy, I even could try it my self.

I was messed up with this one:

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I will try doing POST with payload - sure, that it will work.

Thank you so much!!

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Yeah, I filed a report for that documentation error (Documentation error for "Add a portfolio item").

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Thanks for finding this! Those should definitely not be query params. Thanks @Phil_Seeman & @dgraid!

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