# Save a status-update template

`PUT https://evohub.io/api/v1/update-templates`

Part of the [On-Call API](https://docs-dev.evohub.io/oncall.md) reference · operationId `saveUpdateTemplate`.

Sets the default text for one kind and status. An empty `body` is stored as empty.

**Permission (API-key scope):** `oncall:settings:write`.

## Authorization

Any one of:

- `bearerAuth` (oncall:settings:write)
- `apiKeyHeader` (oncall:settings:write)

Where:

- `bearerAuth`: HTTP Bearer — An EvoHub API key (`evohub_…`) as a bearer token.
- `apiKeyHeader`: API key in the header `X-API-Key` — An EvoHub API key (`evohub_…`).

## Request body (required)

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `UpdateTemplateWrite`

- `kind` (string, required, one of `incident`, `maintenance`)
- `status` (string, required): For `incident`: investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved. For `maintenance`: scheduled, in_progress, completed.
- `body` (string)

## Responses

### 200 — The template.

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `object`

- `data` (UpdateTemplate, required)
  - `id` (string)
  - `org_id` (string)
  - `kind` (string, one of `incident`, `maintenance`)
  - `status` (string)
  - `body` (string)
  - `updated_at` (string (date-time))
- `success` (boolean, required, value `true`)

### 400 — The body is not JSON (`INVALID_BODY`), or the kind and status do not go together (`VALIDATION_FAILED`).

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `ValidationError`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required, value `VALIDATION_FAILED`)
  - `message` (string, required)
  - `details` (array of object, required)
    - `field` (string)
    - `message` (string)

### 401 — No API key was sent, or it is unknown, revoked or expired (`UNAUTHORIZED`).

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.

### 403 — The key lacks the scope this endpoint needs (`FORBIDDEN`).

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.

### 429 — Too many requests (`RATE_LIMITED`). Wait `Retry-After` seconds.

Headers:

- `Retry-After` (integer): Seconds to wait.

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.

### 500 — Something went wrong on EvoHub's side (`INTERNAL_ERROR`). Retry later.

Content type: `application/json`

Type: `Error`

- `error` (object, required)
  - `code` (string, required): Machine-readable code. Branch on this.
  - `message` (string, required): Human-readable explanation.

## Example request

```bash
curl -X PUT 'https://evohub.io/api/v1/update-templates' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>' \
  -d '{
  "body": "We are investigating reports of degraded service.",
  "kind": "incident",
  "status": "investigating"
}'
```