---
title: "Creating a new Custom Task Status"
method: POST
path: "/custom_task_statuses"
tags: ["Task Statuses"]
---

# Creating a new Custom Task Status

`POST /custom_task_statuses`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1/custom_task_statuses`
- Auth: none declared

Adds a new custom status to a task status set.

This endpoint returns structured Custom Task Status objects.
As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array
and will be indexed by ID in the `custom_task_statuses` top-level JSON key.
Please see our [Response Format](#section/Response-Format) section for more information.

## Query parameters

- `include` string

## Request body

- object
  - `custom_task_status` object
    - `status` string, required: The name of the custom task status. The name must be unique within the set.
    - `category` string, required: The category (i.e. status type) for this custom status. Possible values are `not started`, `started`, `needs info`, or `completed`.
    - `status_set_id` integer, required: The ID of the task status set to add the custom status to.

## Response `200`

Custom Task Status has been created.

- object
  - `count` integer
  - `meta` object
    - `count` integer
    - `page_count` integer
    - `page_number` integer
    - `page_size` integer
  - `results` object[]
    - `key` string
    - `id` string
  - `custom_task_statuses` object
  - `task_status_sets` object

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized request
- `403`: Forbidden request
- `404`: Page Not Found
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `503`: Service is unavailable

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