---
title: "Preview Starter"
method: POST
path: "/companies/{company_id}/templates/starter-preview"
tags: ["creatives"]
---

# Preview Starter

`POST /companies/{company_id}/templates/starter-preview`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.zalster.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://app.zalster.com/companies/{company_id}/templates/starter-preview`
- Auth: none declared

A starter rendered against a real product, before any template exists.

The chooser shows what each starting point actually looks like for these
products, which a name and an abstract sketch cannot.

## Path parameters

- `company_id` string, uuid, required: Company id

## Query parameters

- `theme` string, nullable: none, scheduled (the default: the company's theme now) or a theme's id
- `at` string, date-time, nullable: draw as at this moment, with a time zone; now when left out

## Request body

- StarterPreviewRequest: Preview a starter before it is a template, so the chooser can show it.
  - `starter` string, required
  - `product_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `format` string

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- TemplatePreviewOut
  - `product_id` string, uuid, required
  - `external_id` string, required
  - `format` string, required
  - `svg` string, required
  - `warnings` object[], required
  - `bound` object, required
  - `visibility` object, required
  - `subject_boxes` object
  - `pictures` object
  - `overrides` object
  - `conditions` object
  - `parts` object
  - `picture_findings` object[]
  - `touchups` object
  - `codes` object
  - `tables` object
  - `layout` string, nullable
  - `explain` object

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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