Create department

Creates a new department

Parameters

Function CreateDepartment(Val URL, Val Name, Val ParentID = "", Val HeadID = "", Val Token = "") Export

Parameter	CLI option	Type	Required	Description
URL	--url	String	✔	URL of webhook or a Bitrix24 domain, when token used
Name	--title	String	✔	Department name
ParentID	--parentid	String, Number	✖	ID of parent department
HeadID	--headid	String, Number	✖	ID of department manager
Token	--token	String	✖	Access token, when app auth method used

Returns

Map Of KeyAndValue - serialized JSON of answer from Bitrix24 API

Advanced call ?

Parameter	Description
proxy	InternetProxy or a structure with fields Protocol, Host, Port, User, Password, UseOSAuthentication
timeout	Request execution timeout
adv_response	Formats the response as a complete HTTP structure with fields code, body, and headers
retries	Number of HTTP request send attempts on 5** status codes or internal client errors
dontwait	Creates a background job and returns its data (for 1C and OneScript only)

tip

Method at API documentation: department.add

1C:Enterprise/OneScript code example

    URL = "https://b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by/rest/1/av5...";

    Name     = "Main department";
    ParentID = 1;

    Result = OPI_Bitrix24.CreateDepartment(URL, Name, ParentID);

    URL   = "b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by";
    Token = "a5b00469006e9f06006b12e400000001000...";

    Name     = "Subordinate department";
    ParentID = "2962";
    HeadID   = 1;

    Result = OPI_Bitrix24.CreateDepartment(URL, Name, ParentID, HeadID, Token);

Bash

    oint bitrix24 CreateDepartment \
      --url "b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by" \
      --title "Subordinate department" \
      --parentid 3788 \
      --headid 1 \
      --token "***"

CMD/Bat

    oint bitrix24 CreateDepartment ^
      --url "b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by" ^
      --title "Subordinate department" ^
      --parentid 3788 ^
      --headid 1 ^
      --token "***"

Result

{
 "result": 3790,
 "time": {
  "start": 1779804918,
  "finish": 1779804919.13397,
  "duration": 1.13397192955017,
  "processing": 1,
  "date_start": "2026-05-26T14:15:18+00:00",
  "date_finish": "2026-05-26T14:15:19+00:00",
  "operating_reset_at": 1779805518,
  "operating": 0.145330190658569
 }
}