Delete a workspace state

DELETE/api/v2/workspaces/{slug}/states/{pk}/

Remove a state from the workspace catalog. A successful delete returns 204 with an empty body.

This works only in a workspace with governance turned on. In an ungoverned workspace, a project's state id returns 404. Delete it with Delete a state on its project.

Three conditions block the delete with 409 conflict. See Before you delete.

Path parameters

slug:requiredstring

The workspace slug. It appears in your Plane URLs. In https://app.plane.so/my-team/projects/, the slug is my-team.

pk:requiredstring (uuid)

The id of the catalog state to delete.

Response shaping

fields:optionalstring

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Fields you don't request are left out of the response instead of coming back as null, so a missing key means you didn't ask for it and null means the value is null. id is always included, whether or not you name it.

Pass all to get every requestable field. An unknown field name returns 400 with the list of valid names and the closest match, so a typo is caught instead of being silently ignored.

Requestable here: color, created_at, created_by_id, description, external_id, external_source, group, id, is_default, is_triage, name, project_id, sequence, updated_at, updated_by_id.

See Sparse fields.

Scopes

workspaces.states:write

Errors

Status	Code	Cause
400	invalid_request	The request body or a query parameter failed validation.
401	unauthorized	Missing or invalid credentials.
403	forbidden	Only workspace owners and admins can delete catalog states, or your token lacks the scope.
404	not_found	No catalog state with this id. The response has an empty body.
406	not_acceptable	The Accept header asks for a representation the API can't produce.
409	states_managed_at_project	The state is a catalog state, but the workspace doesn't have governance turned on.
409	conflict	The state is the triage state, a workflow still lists it, or work items are still in it.
409	governance_migration_in_progress	A governance migration is running, so the workspace is read-only. Retry after it finishes.
413	payload_too_large	The request body is over the size limit.
415	unsupported_media_type	The Content-Type isn't one this endpoint accepts.
429	rate_limited	Throttled. Honor the Retry-After header before retrying.

Delete a workspace state

curl -X DELETE \
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/states/9e1b7c35-2a4f-4d08-b6e3-1c5f8a2d7e90/" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PLANE_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.delete(
    "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/states/9e1b7c35-2a4f-4d08-b6e3-1c5f8a2d7e90/",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "your-api-key"},
)
print(response.status_code)

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.plane.so/api/v2/workspaces/my-team/states/9e1b7c35-2a4f-4d08-b6e3-1c5f8a2d7e90/",
  {
    method: "DELETE",
    headers: {
      "X-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
    },
  },
);
console.log(response.status);

Response204

No response body.

Response409

{
  "type": "conflict",
  "code": "conflict",
  "detail": "Used by Default, Engineering"
}

Response409

{
  "type": "conflict",
  "code": "conflict",
  "detail": "The state is not empty, only empty states can be deleted"
}

Before you delete

All three blocked cases return 409 conflict. Read detail to tell them apart.

• A workflow still lists the state. detail names the workflows, for example Used by Default, Engineering. Remove the state from each workflow first with Workspace workflow states. If your plan doesn't include workflows, Plane added the state to the default workflow when you created it, so it starts out blocked this way. Removing a state from a workflow returns 402 payment_required on that plan, so you can't delete such a state through the API.
• Work items or drafts are still in the state. Move them to another state, then retry.
• It is the triage state. Plane manages the triage state, and you can't delete it.

Deletes are soft

The state stops appearing in the API and in Plane, but Plane keeps the row. The states API has no restore operation, so treat the 204 as final.