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Interact with the Outline Wiki API — documents, collections, comments, attachments, users, shares

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Document → Create

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Summary

Create a new document in the Outline Wiki by specifying its title and optionally its Markdown-formatted body. Provide either a Collection ID or a Parent Document ID to associate the new document within the wiki's hierarchy, and optionally publish it immediately or save it as a draft.

Inputs

  • Title (required) — The title of the new document.
  • Body (Markdown) — Optional document body content in Markdown format.
  • Collection ID — UUID of the collection to add the document to. Required unless Parent Document ID is set.
  • Publish — Boolean flag to publish the document immediately (true) or save as a draft (false). Defaults to false.
  • Additional Fields — Optional additional settings including Parent Document ID (to create as a child document) and Template ID (to use a template for the document content).

Output shape

a single object representing the created document, including its ID and details as returned by the Outline API

Either Collection ID or Parent Document ID must be provided; an error is thrown if both are missing. The response contains the full document data JSON from Outline API's /documents.create endpoint.

Examples

Example 1: Create a published child document under a specific parent

Set 'Title', optionally 'Body (Markdown)', provide 'Parent Document ID' in additional fields, and set 'Publish' to true.

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