---
title: "Creating a new Daily Scheduled Hours (Story Allocation Day)"
method: POST
path: "/story_allocation_days"
tags: ["Daily Scheduled Hours (Story Allocation Days)"]
---

# Creating a new Daily Scheduled Hours (Story Allocation Day)

`POST /story_allocation_days`

## Request

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

This endpoint returns structured Daily Scheduled Hours (Story Allocation Day) 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 `story_allocation_days` top-level JSON key.
Please see our [Response Format](#section/Response-Format) section for more information.

## Query parameters

- `include` string

## Request body

- object
  - `story_allocation_day` object
    - `assignment_id` integer, required: The ID of the Assignment the Daily Scheduled Hours are part of.
    - `date` string, date, required: The date of the scheduled hours (e.g. 2014-12-31). The date must be in [ISO 8601](https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime) format.
    - `minutes` integer, required: The amount of time scheduled for the day, in minutes (e.g. `120` for 120 minutes, which is 2 hours).
    - `external_reference` object: Typically populated programmatically by a third party system via an integration, this is an optional object that holds data from an external system. It connects objects in an external system with objects in Kantata OX (for example, to connect a Jira issue to a Kantata OX Project).
      - `service_name` string, required: The provider name of the integration. If you are adding multiple external references to the same object, the `service_name` must be unique.
      - `service_model` string, required: The object type of the external object this external reference belongs to.
      - `service_model_ref` string, required: The object ID of the external object this external reference belongs to.
      - `status` string: The status of the integration. Options are `successful`, `pending`, or `failed`.
      - `external_message` string: The message on the external object.
      - `external_link` string: The link to the external object.
      - `external_status` string: The status of the external object in the external system.
      - `locked` boolean: Whether the subject is locked.

## Response `200`

Daily Scheduled Hours (Story Allocation Day) 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
  - `story_allocation_days` object
  - `external_references` object
  - `assignments` object
  - `stories` object
  - `workspaces` 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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