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REST API endpoint to create a board from a template

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  • August 27, 2026
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Currently, the REST API v2 has no way to programmatically create a board from a Miro template (either built-in gallery templates or custom team templates).

The only workaround is PUT /v2/boards?copy_from={board_id}, which requires the caller to have access to the source board's team and satisfy its copyAccess policy.

This makes it impractical for scenarios where a central team maintains a template and distributed users need to instantiate it independently.

A dedicated endpoint (e.g. POST /v2/boards with a from_template parameter, or a separate POST /v2/templates/{id}/instantiate) would allow teams to publish reusable board templates that API consumers can instantiate without needing direct access to the source board or its owning team.

This is a common pattern in other collaboration tools (e.g. Confluence page templates, Jira project templates).

Use case: we maintain a complex workshop board template (100+ frames, stickies, images, diagrams) that field consultants need to instantiate per engagement.

Today we must populate each board programmatically from scratch via dozens of API calls because the copy_from approach requires team membership the end users don't have.

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  • Mironeer
  • August 27, 2026

Hi ​@Laurent Tourreau 

Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this Wish List idea. Our team will review this and it’s open for votes and comments. 

For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for you or your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request!

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