# Why cannot retrieve or launch a Workflow Job Template via Tower API?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-retrieve-or-launch-a-workflow-job-template-via-tower-api/26090>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [November 21, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-retrieve-or-launch-a-workflow-job-template-via-tower-api/26090 "2017-11-21T04:17:23Z")\
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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 21, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-retrieve-or-launch-a-workflow-job-template-via-tower-api/26090/1 "2017-11-21T04:17:23Z")

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I tried to launch a Workflow Template on Ansible Tower by calling the APIs. But cannot even get the template information using [https://towerIP/api/v2/job\_templates/workflowtemplatename](https://towerIP/api/v2/job_templates/workflowtemplatename). No matter to launch it. It works fine with those Job Templates. Does anyone know why it cannot work?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![tima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tima/32/854_2.png) [@tima](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tima)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-cannot-retrieve-or-launch-a-workflow-job-template-via-tower-api/26090/2 "2017-11-22T04:13:02Z")

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This isn’t the list for Tower (AWX is the upstream open source project) development. You should look for help on the awx-project mailing list here: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/awx-project](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/awx-project).