Data Catalog API methods that are related to Data Catalog search and metadata are deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. See Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Universal Catalog . Methods that are related to policy tags and policy tag taxonomies are not deprecated.

Method: projects.locations.tagTemplates.create

Creates a tag template.

You must enable the Data Catalog API in the project identified by the parent parameter. For more information, see Data Catalog resource project .

HTTP request

POST https://datacatalog.googleapis.com/v1/{parent}/tagTemplates

Path parameters

Parameters

Parameters
`parent`	`string` Required. The name of the project and the template location region . It takes the form `projects/{project}/locations/{location}` .

parent

string

Required. The name of the project and the template location region . It takes the form projects/{project}/locations/{location} .

Query parameters

Parameters

Parameters
`tagTemplateId`	`string` Required. The ID of the tag template to create. The ID must contain only lowercase letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), or underscores (_), and must start with a letter or underscore. The maximum size is 64 bytes when encoded in UTF-8.

tagTemplateId

string

Required. The ID of the tag template to create.

The ID must contain only lowercase letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), or underscores (_), and must start with a letter or underscore. The maximum size is 64 bytes when encoded in UTF-8.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of TagTemplate .

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of TagTemplate .

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview .