POST /api/v1/teams/:team_id/tasks/:id/start
Start a task

Examples

POST /api/v1/teams/372/tasks/807/start
{}
200
{
  "id": 1,
  "started_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
  "stopped_at": null,
  "time_trackable_id": 807,
  "time_trackable_type": "Task",
  "time_tracker_id": 366,
  "time_tracker_type": "User",
  "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
  "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
  "deleted_at": null,
  "duration": 0.497074512,
  "amount": 0,
  "team_id": 372,
  "input_type": "realtime",
  "stopped_at_seconds": 0,
  "deleted_at_seconds": 0,
  "external_identifier": null,
  "external_provider": "none",
  "formatted_duration": "00:00",
  "html_url": "http://test.host/app/mytasks/807/edit",
  "user": {
    "id": 366,
    "nickname": "Stacee Ebert",
    "image": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vLvFHrocJuk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/CZsQXc7B2EM/photo.jpg?sz=50",
    "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "deleted_at": null,
    "avatar": null,
    "daily": true,
    "daily_time": "2000-01-01T17:00:00.000+09:00",
    "weekly": true,
    "time_zone": "Tokyo",
    "locale": "en",
    "domain": "timecrowd.net",
    "reset_password_sent_at": null,
    "remember_created_at": null,
    "sign_in_count": 0,
    "current_sign_in_at": null,
    "last_sign_in_at": null,
    "confirmed_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "confirmation_sent_at": null,
    "deactivated_at": null,
    "calendar_zoom_rate": 1,
    "avatar_url": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vLvFHrocJuk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/CZsQXc7B2EM/photo.jpg?sz=64"
  },
  "task": {
    "state": "open",
    "category_id": 806,
    "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "id": 807,
    "key": "http://schowalter.example/solange",
    "title": "Quae sed aliquid odio.",
    "url": "http://schowalter.example/solange",
    "team_id": 372,
    "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "deleted_at": null,
    "description": null,
    "category": {
      "id": 806,
      "key": "key21",
      "title": "key21",
      "url": null,
      "team_id": 372,
      "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
      "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
      "deleted_at": null,
      "description": null,
      "category": true,
      "sequential_id": null,
      "state": "open",
      "bill": 0,
      "ancestry": null,
      "ancestry_depth": 0,
      "closed_at": null,
      "color": 1,
      "position": 3,
      "deleted_at_seconds": 0,
      "key_md5": "0996e40ee99132f44ce2804944fa8647",
      "archived": false,
      "category_id": null,
      "ancestry_path": "/",
      "selectable": true
    },
    "sequential_id": null,
    "bill": 0,
    "ancestry": "806",
    "ancestry_depth": 1,
    "closed_at": null,
    "color": 1,
    "position": null,
    "deleted_at_seconds": 0,
    "key_md5": "4feb96c58ad1845006778c1248463c92",
    "archived": false,
    "ancestry_path": "/806/",
    "selectable": true,
    "team": {
      "id": 372,
      "name": "Montana kangaroos",
      "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
      "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
      "deleted_at": null,
      "time_limit": 0,
      "avatar": null,
      "ancestry": null,
      "hierarchized": false,
      "default_duration": 15,
      "tasks_readonly_role": "none",
      "workspaces_workspace_id": 495,
      "tasks_readonly": false,
      "rounding": "floor",
      "capacity": null,
      "premium": false,
      "personal": false
    }
  },
  "comment": null,
  "team": {
    "id": 372,
    "name": "Montana kangaroos",
    "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "deleted_at": null,
    "time_limit": 0,
    "avatar": null,
    "ancestry": null,
    "hierarchized": false,
    "default_duration": 15,
    "tasks_readonly_role": "none",
    "workspaces_workspace_id": 495,
    "tasks_readonly": false,
    "rounding": "floor",
    "capacity": null,
    "premium": false,
    "personal": false
  },
  "category": {
    "id": 806,
    "key": "key21",
    "title": "key21",
    "url": null,
    "team_id": 372,
    "created_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-21T11:07:09.000+09:00",
    "deleted_at": null,
    "description": null,
    "category": true,
    "sequential_id": null,
    "state": "open",
    "bill": 0,
    "ancestry": null,
    "ancestry_depth": 0,
    "closed_at": null,
    "color": 1,
    "position": 3,
    "deleted_at_seconds": 0,
    "key_md5": "0996e40ee99132f44ce2804944fa8647",
    "archived": false,
    "category_id": null,
    "ancestry_path": "/",
    "selectable": true
  },
  "is_new_task": null
}

POST /api/v1/teams/373/tasks/811/start
{}
422
{
  "messages": [
    "1 error prohibited this Time entry from being saved. ",
    "Task is already deleted."
  ]
}