> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://devdocs.xbox.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create Group > Creates a new group. ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | GroupNameNotAvailable | 1368 | ## OpenAPI ````yaml /services/playfab/api-references/rest/groups/groups.openapi.json post /Group/CreateGroup openapi: 3.0.0 info: version: '260922' title: PlayFab Groups API description: >- The Groups API is designed for any permanent or semi-permanent collections of Entities (players, or non-players). If you want to make Guilds/Clans/Corporations/etc., then you should use groups. Groups can also be used to make chatrooms, parties, or any other persistent collection of entities. termsOfService: https://playfab.com/terms/ contact: url: https://community.playfab.com/index.html license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://github.com/PlayFab/API_Specs/blob/master/LICENSE servers: - url: https://{titleId}.playfabapi.com description: PlayFab title endpoint variables: titleId: default: your_title_id description: Your PlayFab title ID (hex). security: [] tags: - name: Groups description: Groups Management APIs paths: /Group/CreateGroup: post: tags: - Groups summary: Create Group description: | Creates a new group. ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | GroupNameNotAvailable | 1368 | operationId: CreateGroup requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateGroupRequest' description: >- Creates a new group, as well as administration and member roles, based off of a title's group template. Returns information about the group that was created. responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/CreateGroupResponse' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/ApiErrorWrapper' security: - EntityToken: [] components: schemas: CreateGroupRequest: description: >- Creates a new group, as well as administration and member roles, based off of a title's group template. Returns information about the group that was created. type: object properties: CustomTags: description: >- The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.). type: object Entity: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityKey' description: >- The optional entity to perform this action on. Defaults to the currently logged in entity. GroupName: description: The name of the group. This is unique at the title level by default. type: string required: - GroupName example: GroupName: Example Group EntityKey: description: >- Combined entity type and ID structure which uniquely identifies a single entity. type: object properties: Id: description: Unique ID of the entity. type: string Type: description: >- Entity type. See https://learn.microsoft.com/gaming/playfab/features/data/entities/available-built-in-entity-types type: string required: - Id CreateGroupResponse: type: object properties: AdminRoleId: description: The ID of the administrator role for the group. type: string Created: description: The server date and time the group was created. type: string Group: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityKey' description: The identifier of the group GroupName: description: The name of the group. type: string MemberRoleId: description: The ID of the default member role for the group. type: string ProfileVersion: description: >- The current version of the profile, can be used for concurrency control during updates. type: number x-actualtype: int32 Roles: description: The list of roles and names that belong to the group. type: object required: - Group - Created - ProfileVersion example: GroupName: Example Group Group: Id: ABC1234ABC MemberRoleId: ABC123DEF AdminRoleId: ABC123456 Roles: admins: Administrators members: Members awesomepeople: Some Other Role Created: '2017-12-31T11:59:59' ProfileVersion: 17 ApiErrorWrapper: description: The basic wrapper around every failed API response type: object properties: code: description: Numerical HTTP code type: integer status: description: String HTTP code type: string error: description: Playfab error code type: string errorCode: description: Numerical PlayFab error code type: integer errorMessage: description: Description for the PlayFab errorCode type: string errorDetails: description: Detailed description of individual issues with the request object type: object required: - code - errorCode responses: CreateGroupResponse: description: '' content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: code: type: integer description: >- The Http status code. If X-ReportErrorAsSuccess header is set to true, this will report the actual http error code. status: type: string description: The Http status code as a string. data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateGroupResponse' example: code: 200 status: OK data: GroupName: Example Group Group: Id: ABC1234ABC MemberRoleId: ABC123DEF AdminRoleId: ABC123456 Roles: admins: Administrators members: Members awesomepeople: Some Other Role Created: '2017-12-31T11:59:59' ProfileVersion: 17 ApiErrorWrapper: description: This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorWrapper' securitySchemes: EntityToken: type: apiKey in: header name: X-EntityToken description: >- This API requires an Entity Session Token, available from the Entity GetEntityToken method. ```` ## Related topics - [Create Group](/services/playfab/api-references/rest/groups/groups/create-group.md) - [PFGroupsCreateGroupRequest](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfgroupstypes/structs/pfgroupscreategrouprequest.md) - [PFGroupsCreateGroupAsync](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfgroups/functions/pfgroupscreategroupasync.md) - [PFGroupsCreateGroupResponse](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfgroupstypes/structs/pfgroupscreategroupresponse.md) - [PFGroupsCreateGroupRoleRequest](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfgroupstypes/structs/pfgroupscreategrouprolerequest.md)