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# Create new process

| **Description** | Creates a new process |
| --------------- | --------------------- |
| **Endpoint**    | `/path/process`       |
| **Method**      | POST                  |

### Access Level Rules

| **Minimum Access Level** | edit+ on parent folder or account holder in root. |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- |

### Processing Units

| **Processing units** | 1 |
| -------------------- | - |

### Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th width="221">Description</th><th>Required</th><th>Default</th><th data-hidden>Required</th><th data-hidden>Default</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>name</code></td><td>The name of the new process.</td><td>true</td><td></td><td>true</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>process</code></td><td>A JSON with properties "parameters",  "gitUrl" and "gitFile".<br><br>"parameters" should be an array of objects. Each object should have a name, description and example. All should be of type string. <br><br>"gitUrl" should be a string with the url of the git to run as string.<br><br>"gitFile" should be the location of the file in the git as string.</td><td>true</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>parentId</code></td><td><p>The id of the parent folder of the new path.</p><p>If omitted the new path is placed in your myDrive root.</p></td><td>false</td><td>Default null.</td><td>false</td><td>null</td></tr><tr><td><code>publicAccess</code></td><td><a href="/pages/jWHxOKKaASR2HwgmIQkh">Public access object</a> with properties "hidden" and "accessTier"<br><br>"accessTier" must be between "none" and "edit" and "hidden" must be a boolean.</td><td>false</td><td>Default {accessTier:"none", hidden:true}.</td><td>false</td><td>publicAccessLevel</td></tr><tr><td><code>metadata</code></td><td>A JSON with property "description" with the description of the file.</td><td>false</td><td>Default null.</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

Example request:

```
{
  name: 'test process',
  metadata: { description: 'test description' },
  publicAccess: {hidden:true, accessTier:'view'},
  process: {
    parameters: [{"description":"first number to multiply", "example":"2", "name":"parameter 1" }, {"description":"second number to multiply", "example":"4", "name":"parameter 2" }],
    gitUrl: "https://github.com/multiplier/multiplication",
    gitFile: "multiply.py",
  },
};

```