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Start work order

POST
/v1/actions/hospitality.action.start_work_order/apply
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.aerandil.com/v1/actions/hospitality.action.start_work_order/apply \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "branch": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0", "params": { "started_at": "2026-04-15T12:00:00Z" }, "return_modified": false, "target": { "id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0", "object_type": "hospitality.work_order" } }'

The engineer is on the job: open / scheduled / blocked / postponed → in_progress, stamping started_at and clearing any block reason or postponement (starting a blocked order is the retry after parts arrived; starting a postponed one is its resume). An order assigned to a worker group (2026-10-14) is taken by the member who starts it — the group edge re-points to them — and a staff-member session outside the group is refused (403); a caller that is not a staff member starts it and leaves it the group’s.

Effects: modify hospitality.work_order; link hospitality.link.work_order_assigned_to; unlink hospitality.link.work_order_assigned_to_group.

Media typeapplication/json
object
branch

Apply against an open branch’s overlay view instead of the canonical (main) plane. The action’s writes land in the branch’s copy-on-first-write overlay, its events in the branch’s own stream, and the invocation is journaled for merge-by-replay. Branch writes are action-only, so this is the write-side entry point to a branch (POST /v1/branches forks one).

string format: uuid
params
required
object
started_at
When work began (defaults to now)
string format: date-time
return_modified

When true, the response carries modified_objects and modified_links projections — the engine reads the event log inside the same transaction so the projection observes the handler’s own writes.

boolean
target
required
object
id
required
string format: uuid
object_type
required
Allowed value: hospitality.work_order

Action applied. modified_objects and modified_links populated when return_modified: true was supplied.

Media typeapplication/json
ApplyActionResponse

Envelope returned by the Aerandil action engine. correlation_id ties every event emitted by this invocation; modified_objects and modified_links project the events the handler emitted (per the action’s declared effects); warnings carries any non-blocking soft-validator observations.

object
correlation_id
required

Per-invocation correlation id; matches events.correlation_id for every event this action appended.

string format: uuid
modified_links
required

Links established or removed by this invocation. Empty when the caller did not request return_modified.

Array<object>
object
from_id
required
string format: uuid
from_type
required
string
kind
required
Allowed values: linked unlinked end_dated
link_type
required
Allowed values: hospitality.link.work_order_assigned_to hospitality.link.work_order_assigned_to_group
to_id
required
string format: uuid
to_type
required
string
modified_objects
required

Objects created, modified, or soft-deleted by this invocation. Empty when the caller did not request return_modified.

Array<object>
object
id
required
string format: uuid
kind
required
Allowed values: modified
object_type
required
Allowed values: hospitality.work_order
warnings

Non-blocking soft-validator observations emitted during this invocation (e.g. comp-authority over-limit, recipe pour-cost over sell-price). Absent when no warnings were emitted.

Array<object>
object
message
required

Human-readable summary, suitable for logging or operator-UI surfacing.

string
object_type
required

Object type the warning was raised against.

string
property

Property the warning anchors to, when a single field is the locus. Absent for multi-field rules.

string
rule
required

Stable kebab-case rule identifier (e.g. comp-authority-over-limit).

string
Example
{
"modified_links": [
{
"kind": "linked",
"link_type": "hospitality.link.work_order_assigned_to"
}
],
"modified_objects": [
{
"kind": "modified",
"object_type": "hospitality.work_order"
}
]
}

Conflict — concurrent modification or unique constraint violation.

Validation error — parameter validation or business-rule violation.