---
title: "Fire action by name (multipart form)"
method: PUT
path: "/api/v1/workflow/actions/firemultipart"
tags: ["Workflow"]
---

# Fire action by name (multipart form)

`PUT /api/v1/workflow/actions/firemultipart`

Fires a [workflow action](https://www.dotcms.com/docs/latest/managing-workflows#Actions), specified by name, on a target contentlet. Uses a multipart form to transmit its data.

Returns a map of the resultant contentlet, with an additional `AUTO_ASSIGN_WORKFLOW` property, which can be referenced by delegate services that handle automatically assigning workflow schemes to content with none.

**When chaining workflow actions or reading state back immediately after firing, pass `indexPolicy=WAIT_FOR` on each call.** The default `DEFER` is asynchronous and can return stale index reads for several seconds, which can mimic server-side state bugs. For isolated one-off fires where nothing reads the result, leave the default.

## Query parameters

- `inode` string
- `identifier` string
- `indexPolicy` 'DEFER' | 'WAIT_FOR' | 'FORCE'
- `language` string

## Response `200`

Fired action successfully

- ResponseEntityMapView
  - `errors` ErrorEntity[]
    - `errorCode` string
    - `message` string
    - `fieldName` string
  - `entity` object
  - `messages` MessageEntity[]
    - `message` string
  - `i18nMessagesMap` object
  - `permissions` string[]
  - `pagination` Pagination
    - `currentPage` integer
    - `perPage` integer
    - `totalEntries` integer

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad request
- `401` — Invalid User
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Content not found
- `406` — Not Acceptable
- `415` — Unsupported Media Type
- `500` — Internal Server Error

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