# Why cannot launch a Job from a Job template by calling the Ansible Tower API on PostMan?

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**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-launch-a-job-from-a-job-template-by-calling-the-ansible-tower-api-on-postman/25956 "2017-11-08T06:10:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![leima2046](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@leima2046](https://forum.ansible.com/u/leima2046)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-launch-a-job-from-a-job-template-by-calling-the-ansible-tower-api-on-postman/25956/1 "2017-11-08T06:10:28Z")

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I tried to launch a Job from a Job template by calling Ansible Tower API. Took a test on PostMan, turns out the [http://ansibletowerhost/api/v2/job\_templates/8/launch/](http://ansibletowerhost/api/v2/job_templates/8/launch/) with POST cannot work correctly.

Here 8 is the job template id, which is a simple test job template. The document says the result should be like below, and there will be a job record created on Tower.

```auto
{
  "ignored_fields": {
    "credential": 2,
    "job_tags": "setup,teardown"
  }
  "id": 4,
  ...more data about the job...
  "job": 4,
}

```

But what I got is like this,

{  
“can\_start\_without\_user\_input”: true,  
“passwords\_needed\_to\_start”: ,  
“ask\_variables\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_tags\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_diff\_mode\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_skip\_tags\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_job\_type\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_limit\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_verbosity\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_inventory\_on\_launch”: false,  
“ask\_credential\_on\_launch”: false,  
“survey\_enabled”: false,  
“variables\_needed\_to\_start”: ,  
“credential\_needed\_to\_start”: false,  
“inventory\_needed\_to\_start”: false,  
“job\_template\_data”: {  
“id”: 8,  
“description”: “”,  
“name”: “simpletest”  
},  
“defaults”: {  
“extra\_credentials”: ,  
“credential”: {  
“id”: 1,  
“name”: “Demo Credential”  
},  
“job\_tags”: “”,  
“extra\_vars”: “”,  
“verbosity”: 0,  
“job\_type”: “run”,  
“diff\_mode”: false,  
“skip\_tags”: “”,  
“limit”: “”,  
“inventory”: {  
“id”: 1,  
“name”: “Demo Inventory”  
},  
“vault\_credential”: {  
“id”: null,  
“name”: null  
}  
}  
}

Any idea what goes wrong here?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![leima2046](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@leima2046](https://forum.ansible.com/u/leima2046)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-launch-a-job-from-a-job-template-by-calling-the-ansible-tower-api-on-postman/25956/2 "2017-11-08T06:43:46Z")

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I got the reason. Should use “https” instead of “http”.

在 2017年11月8日星期三 UTC+11下午5:10:29，leim…@gmail.com写道：

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**Author:** ![leima2046](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@leima2046](https://forum.ansible.com/u/leima2046)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-launch-a-job-from-a-job-template-by-calling-the-ansible-tower-api-on-postman/25956/3 "2017-12-01T04:49:28Z")

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[https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/explore-crime-by-location](https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/explore-crime-by-location)