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# createRecord

This method is to create a new record.

{% hint style="info" %}
You must create and activate a session before you call this method. See [createSession](/cortex-api/session/createsession.md) for details.
{% endhint %}

## Parameters

| Name         | Type               | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ------------ | ------------------ | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| cortexToken  | `string`           | yes      | A token returned by [authorize](/cortex-api/authentication/authorize.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| session      | `string`           | yes      | A session id returned by [createSession](/cortex-api/session/createsession.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| title        | `string`           | yes      | The title of the record. Must be 200 characters or less.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| description  | `string`           | no       | The description of the record.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| subjectName  | `string`           | no       | The name of a subject created by [createSubject](/cortex-api/subjects/createsubject.md). The subject is the person wearing the headset during the record. If you omit this field, then Cortex assumes that the [current user](/cortex-api/authentication/getuserlogin.md) is using the headset. |
| tags         | `array of strings` | no       | <p>A list of tags you can associate to this record.<br>You can use <a href="/pages/-LfwQyZr3OvdMh_aETU6">queryRecords</a> to search the records by tags.</p>                                                                                                                                    |
| experimentId | `number (integer)` | no       | <p>An experiment id you can associate to this record. If you omit this parameter then the experimentId of the record will be zero.</p><p><em>This parameter was added in Cortex 2.2.1</em></p>                                                                                                  |

## Result

The result is an object containing two fields:

| Name      | Type     | Description                                                                                 |
| --------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| record    | `object` | A [record object](/cortex-api/records/record-object.md) that represents the created record. |
| sessionId | `string` | The id of the session this record is linked to.                                             |

## Examples

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Request" %}

```javascript
{
    "id": 1,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "createRecord",
    "params": {
        "cortexToken": "xxx",
        "session": "1067dc90-eb17-489b-9514-69cb79ac696c",
        "title": "Cortex Examples C++"
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Response" %}

```javascript
{
    "id": 1,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "record": {
            "uuid": "222eb845-bc44-4a01-bf28-07445a7c7e8a",
            "applicationId": "com.jon.snow.winterfell-app",
            "applicationVersion": "1.0",
            "description": "",
            "endDatetime": "",
            "experimentId": 0,
            "licenseId": "xxx",
            "licenseScope": ["pm","eeg"],
            "ownerId": "76c3468a-d9c0-428d-81b4-bdac5d63860e",
            "startDatetime": "2019-05-31T11:06:24.398560+07:00",
            "tags": [],
            "title": "Cortex Examples C++"
        },
        "sessionId": "1067dc90-eb17-489b-9514-69cb79ac696c"
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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