Create a Team

Create a new team for organizing users and controlling access

POST /v1/teams

POST /v1/teams

Python

from metadata.sdk import configure
from metadata.sdk.entities import Teams
from metadata.generated.schema.api.teams.createTeam import CreateTeamRequest

configure(
    host="https://your-company.open-metadata.org/api",
    jwt_token="your-jwt-token"
)

request = CreateTeamRequest(
    name="Accounting",
    teamType="Group",
    displayName="Accounting",
    description="Accounting team under Finance",
    parents=["4f87a3ea-d798-4509-8c64-5b11f8a96f89"]
)

team = Teams.create(request)
print(f"Created: {team.fullyQualifiedName}")

Response

{
  "id": "449b5f25-4cbb-42db-8f71-3be2c5cd888a",
  "teamType": "Group",
  "name": "Accounting",
  "fullyQualifiedName": "Accounting",
  "version": 0.1,
  "updatedAt": 1769982623753,
  "updatedBy": "admin",
  "href": "http://localhost:8585/api/v1/teams/449b5f25-4cbb-42db-8f71-3be2c5cd888a",
  "parents": [
    {
      "id": "4f87a3ea-d798-4509-8c64-5b11f8a96f89",
      "type": "team",
      "name": "Finance",
      "fullyQualifiedName": "Finance",
      "displayName": "Finance",
      "deleted": false
    }
  ],
  "users": [],
  "deleted": false,
  "owners": [],
  "domains": [],
  "children": [],
  "policies": []
}

Create a Team

Create a new team for organizing users and controlling access to data assets.

Body Parameters

name · string · required

Name of the team. Must be unique across all teams.

teamType · string · required

Type of team. One of: Group, Department, Division, BusinessUnit, Organization.

displayName · string

Human-readable display name for the team.

description · string

Description of the team in Markdown format.

email · string

Email address associated with the team.

parents · array

Array of parent team references. A team can belong to a parent team in the hierarchy.

Show properties

id · string

UUID of the parent team.

type · string

Type of entity (always team).

isJoinable · boolean · default: "true"

Whether users can join this team without an invitation.

owners · array

Array of owner references (users or teams) to assign as owners of this team.

Show properties

id · string

UUID of the owner entity.

type · string

Type of owner entity (e.g., user, team).

name · string

Name of the owner entity.

policies · array

Array of policy references to attach to the team.

Show properties

id · string

UUID of the policy.

type · string

Type of entity (always policy).

domain · string

Fully qualified name of the domain to assign for governance purposes.

POST /v1/teams

Python

from metadata.sdk import configure
from metadata.sdk.entities import Teams
from metadata.generated.schema.api.teams.createTeam import CreateTeamRequest

configure(
    host="https://your-company.open-metadata.org/api",
    jwt_token="your-jwt-token"
)

request = CreateTeamRequest(
    name="Accounting",
    teamType="Group",
    displayName="Accounting",
    description="Accounting team under Finance",
    parents=["4f87a3ea-d798-4509-8c64-5b11f8a96f89"]
)

team = Teams.create(request)
print(f"Created: {team.fullyQualifiedName}")

Response

{
  "id": "449b5f25-4cbb-42db-8f71-3be2c5cd888a",
  "teamType": "Group",
  "name": "Accounting",
  "fullyQualifiedName": "Accounting",
  "version": 0.1,
  "updatedAt": 1769982623753,
  "updatedBy": "admin",
  "href": "http://localhost:8585/api/v1/teams/449b5f25-4cbb-42db-8f71-3be2c5cd888a",
  "parents": [
    {
      "id": "4f87a3ea-d798-4509-8c64-5b11f8a96f89",
      "type": "team",
      "name": "Finance",
      "fullyQualifiedName": "Finance",
      "displayName": "Finance",
      "deleted": false
    }
  ],
  "users": [],
  "deleted": false,
  "owners": [],
  "domains": [],
  "children": [],
  "policies": []
}

---

Returns

Returns the created team object with all specified properties and system-generated fields.

Response

id · string

Unique identifier for the team (UUID format).

name · string

Team name.

fullyQualifiedName · string

Fully qualified name (same as name for teams).

displayName · string

Human-readable display name.

teamType · string

Type of team (Group, Department, Division, BusinessUnit, Organization).

description · string

Description of the team in Markdown format.

parents · array

Parent team references.

Show properties

id · string

UUID of the parent team.

type · string

Type of entity (always team).

name · string

Name of the parent team.

fullyQualifiedName · string

Fully qualified name of the parent team.

users · array

Users belonging to this team.

children · array

Child team references.

policies · array

Policy references attached to the team.

owners · array

List of owners assigned to the team.

domains · array

Domain assignments for governance.

version · number

Version number for the entity (starts at 0.1).

---

Error Handling

Code	Error Type	Description
400	BAD_REQUEST	Invalid request body or missing required fields
401	UNAUTHORIZED	Invalid or missing authentication token
403	FORBIDDEN	User lacks permission to create teams
409	ENTITY_ALREADY_EXISTS	Team with same name already exists