Getting error 500 when trying to create a table using an API

I am using API endpoint https://h.eu.wdesk.com/s/wdata/prep/api/v1/table

Where I am trying to create a new table.

My SCOPES in Workiva are:

data_tables|w,task:read,task:write,file:read,file:write,activity:read,data_tables|r

All I get back is the following error:

HTTPError: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://h.eu.wdesk.com/s/wdata/prep/api/v1/table

TABLE_ENDPOINT = 'https://h.eu.wdesk.com/s/wdata/prep/api/v1/table'

headers = workiva_token

table_config = WORKIVA_TABLE_SCHEMAS =

{

"Table_1": [

{'name': 'col_1', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_2', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_3', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_4', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_5', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_6', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_7', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_8', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_9', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_10', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_11', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_12', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_13', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_14', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_15', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_16', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_17', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_18', 'type': 'string'},

{'name': 'col_19', 'type': 'float'},

]

}

response = requests.post(TABLE_ENDPOINT, headers=get_auth_headers(access_token), json=table_config, timeout=10, proxies=PROXIES)

response.raise_for_status()

body = response.json().get('body')

Could someone please advise what could be wrong?

{
"name": "string",
"tableSchema": {
"columns": [
{
"description": "string",
"mode": "nullable",
"name": "string",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"type": "data"
}

import requests
url = "https://h.eu.wdesk.com/s/wdata/prep/api/v1/table"
payload = {
"name": "string",
"tableSchema": { "columns": [
{
"description": "string",
"mode": "nullable",
"name": "string",
"type": "string"
}
] },
"type": "data"
}
headers = {
"content-type": "application/json",
"accept": "application/json",
"authorization": "Bearer <valid_token>"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

Jeff Hickey

2026년 05월 15일 14:37

Hi Juraj Kuceravy,

It appears your request is malformed which is the cause of the 500 error. When creating a data table, the TableDto payload at minimum needs to have a name, tableSchema property, and type. For example:

Below is an example request in Python:

For more information, please see https://developers.workiva.com/wdata-v1/wdata-createtable.html

Thanks,
Jeff

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