---
title: "Retrigger Files"
method: POST
path: "/internal/files/retrigger"
tags: ["internal"]
---

# Retrigger Files

`POST /internal/files/retrigger`

Re-trigger processing and/or embedding workflows for selected files.

If the file is already past processing (status == IN_USE), only the
SemanticallyIndexFile workflow is triggered.  Otherwise the full
ProcessFile workflow is triggered (which chains into indexing on success).

## Request body

- RetriggerRequest
  - `upload_ids` string[], required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- RetriggerResponse
  - `items` RetriggerResultItem[], required
    - `upload_id` string, uuid, required
    - `triggered` 'process_and_index' | 'index_only' | 'skipped', required
    - `reason` string, nullable, required

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

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