create-brand-template-draft

Use create-brand-template-draft to get a design that you can edit and then publish back as the updated brand template. If a draft already exists for the brand template, the tool returns the existing draft.

To update a brand template:

1. Call create-brand-template-draft with the brand template's ID.
2. Edit the returned design with edit-design.
3. Publish the edited design as the brand template with publish-brand-template.

"Update our brand template for event flyers with the new logo."

Pass the brand_template_id. To find brand templates and their IDs, use search-brand-templates.

IDs, URLs, and tokens below are placeholders; field names and structure are exactly as returned.

{
  "design": {
    "id": "DAF_EXAMPLE",
    "title": "Event Flyer Template",
    "owner": { "user_id": "USER_EXAMPLE", "team_id": "TEAM_EXAMPLE" },
    "thumbnail": { "width": 595, "height": 842, "url": "https://document-export.canva.com/EXAMPLE_THUMBNAIL" },
    "urls": { "edit_url": "https://www.canva.com/d/EXAMPLE_EDIT", "view_url": "https://www.canva.com/d/EXAMPLE_VIEW" },
    "created_at": 1784078449,
    "updated_at": 1784078449,
    "page_count": 1
  }
}

Returns the draft design with its id, edit_url, and view_url. Use the id to edit the draft, and later to publish it. The thumbnail is generated asynchronously, so it might not be present in the response.

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