---
title: "Start Editing an Approved Template"
method: POST
path: "/approval-flows/{flow}/items/{item}/start-edit"
tags: ["Other"]
---

# Start Editing an Approved Template

`POST /approval-flows/{flow}/items/{item}/start-edit`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.orshot.com/v1`
- URL: `https://api.orshot.com/v1/approval-flows/{flow}/items/{item}/start-edit`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Starts editing a template that is ready for automation, once the person picks what happens after the edit.

Available only to Enterprise-plan workspaces and first-party clients.

## Path parameters

- `flow` string, required
- `item` integer, required

## Request body

- object
  - `mode` string, required: What happens after the edit: keep (edit it where it is; approvers of the stage, owners and admins), review (edit it where it is, then send it to the review before its stage) or draft (move it to Draft now).
  - `revision` integer: The item's revision you last saw; refused with state_conflict if it changed.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: The request was malformed or a parameter was invalid.
- `401`: Authentication is required and was not supplied.
- `402`: The workspace has no credits left. Either the render needs credits it does not have, or the key was paused after repeatedly calling with none (`code: api_key_paused`). That one resumes by itself on the first request we can accept.
- `403`: The API key is missing, invalid, or not permitted to perform this action.
- `404`: The requested route or resource does not exist.
- `429`: The workspace rate limit was exceeded. Retry after the interval given by the Retry-After header.
- `500`: An unexpected error occurred on our side.

## Changes

- **2026-09-30** `ddef0a2409c0`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/orshot/apis/orshot-api/changes/approval-flows/:flow/items/:item/start-edit/post.md)

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