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# Forma Submittals

The Submittals API allows you to create submittal items, manage their transitions, and access data stored in the [Forma Submittals module](https://help.autodesk.com/view/BUILD/ENU/?guid=Submittals_Overview). Submittals are documents created for approval by the project’s stakeholders. They go through a formal reviewing process. For more information about Submittals, see the [Submittals help](https://help.autodesk.com/view/BUILD/ENU/?guid=Submittals_Overview) documentation.

The Submittals API includes the following features:

* Create, Update and retrieve submittal items.
* Transition submittal items
* Retrieve submittal item revisions.
* Create and retrieve spec sections.
* Retrieve packages.
* Retrieve submittal item types.
* Retrieve submittal item responses.
* Retrieve submittal item Steps and Tasks.
* Retrieve review templates.
* Close Tasks (Add review).
* Create and Update attachments.
* Retrieve attachments associated with a submittal item.
* Download attachments.
* Retrieve the next custom number and validate your own custom number.
* Retrieve a list of project managers.
* Retrieve a user’s permissions.
* Retrieve project metadata.
* Creating and deleting Submittal Managers for a project.
* Configuring the custom identifier sequence type for a project.

## Limitations

We do not currently support the following features:

* Updating, and deleting submittals data.
* Batch create and batch update (including importing).
* Creating packages.
* Retrieving item activities.
* Creating item types or responses.
* Creating and managing submittals review templates.
* We do not currently provide endpoints to programmatically retrieve information about roles.
* Although creating review Steps and Tasks programmatically is not supported, users can create a review template (containing Steps and Tasks) through the UI and apply it to a submittal item in the [Post items](https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/acc/v1/reference/http/submittals-items-POST/) request.

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*Imported from the Autodesk Platform Services documentation: [https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/acc/v1/overview/field-guide/submittals](https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/acc/v1/overview/field-guide/submittals).*