# Move Document to Draft

Revert your document back to draft to continue editing it.

> 📘 Returning to Draft works for any document status except Removed.

## After you move your document to the Draft status

- `Signature` and `Initials` fields are cleared. All other fields stay filled in.
- Recipients are **not** notified that the document is back in Draft.
- You'll need to resend the document so that recipients can sign the updated version.


# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.0.3",
  "info": {
    "title": "PandaDoc Public API",
    "description": "PandaDoc API spans a broad range of functionality to help you build incredible documents automation experiences inside your product.\n\nPandaDoc API is organized around REST. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.\n\n## Getting started\n\nYou can start testing PandaDoc API with a sandbox key on our [Enterprise](https://www.pandadoc.com/pricing/) plan, either active or in trial.\n\nGenerate your [sandbox key](https://developers.pandadoc.com/reference/sandbox-key) on the Developer Dashboard with predefined [rate limits](https://developers.pandadoc.com/reference/limits). Or contact our solutions expert if you work with high-transaction volumes.\n\n## Guides\n\nIf you’re just getting started with PandaDoc, you may want to jump straight into one of our [getting started guides](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/getting-started) for the feature you’re most interested in, whether that’s:\n\n- [Create from template](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/create-send-document),\n- [Upload and send a local PDF](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/upload-and-send-a-local-pdf),\n- or [Listening for changes in document status](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/listen-document-status-changes).\n\nWe also recommend you to discover our dynamic content generation on a fly: [Create from a template with content placeholder](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/create-with-content-placeholders-from-template).\n",
    "termsOfService": "https://www.pandadoc.com/master-services-agreement/",
    "contact": {
      "name": "PandaDoc API Support",
      "url": "https://developers.pandadoc.com/",
      "email": "api-track@pandadoc.com"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "MIT",
      "url": "https://github.com/PandaDoc/pandadoc-openapi-specification/blob/main/LICENSE"
    },
    "version": "7.18.2"
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.pandadoc.com",
      "description": "Public API"
    }
  ],
  "security": [
    {
      "apiKey": []
    },
    {
      "oauth2": []
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "Documents",
      "description": "Operations for managing documents, including appending content library items and creating document sessions for embedded signing."
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/public/v1/documents/{id}/draft": {
      "post": {
        "tags": [
          "Documents"
        ],
        "summary": "Move Document to Draft",
        "operationId": "documentRevertToDraft",
        "description": "Revert your document back to draft to continue editing it.\n\n> 📘 Returning to Draft works for any document status except Removed.\n\n## After you move your document to the Draft status\n\n- `Signature` and `Initials` fields are cleared. All other fields stay filled in.\n- Recipients are **not** notified that the document is back in Draft.\n- You'll need to resend the document so that recipients can sign the updated version.\n",
        "parameters": [
          {
            "examples": {
              "Move to Draft": {
                "value": "iGsFiaV2hEEvQdhr2WAkMk"
              }
            },
            "name": "id",
            "in": "path",
            "schema": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "required": true,
            "description": "Specify document ID."
          }
        ],
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "Success response",
            "content": {
              "application/json": {
                "schema": {
                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DocumentRevertToDraftResponse"
                },
                "examples": {
                  "Move to Draft": {
                    "value": {
                      "id": "msFYActMfJHqNTKH8YSvF1",
                      "name": "Document",
                      "status": "document.draft",
                      "date_created": "2017-08-06T08:42:13.836022Z",
                      "date_modified": "2017-09-04T02:21:13.963750Z",
                      "expiration_date": null,
                      "version": "2"
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "apiKey": {
        "type": "apiKey",
        "name": "Authorization",
        "in": "header",
        "description": "The `Authorization` header must contain the API key. The value should be prefixed with `API-Key` followed by a space and the actual API key.\n",
        "x-default": "API-Key 3039ba033eb1410caa0a2227158d63c9d6502cd8"
      },
      "oauth2": {
        "type": "oauth2",
        "flows": {
          "authorizationCode": {
            "authorizationUrl": "https://app.pandadoc.com/oauth2/authorize",
            "tokenUrl": "https://api.pandadoc.com/oauth2/access_token",
            "refreshUrl": "https://api.pandadoc.com/oauth2/access_token",
            "scopes": {
              "read+write": "Use `read+write` to create, send, delete, and download documents, and `read` to view templates and document details."
            }
          }
        },
        "description": "Send the authenticating user to the PandaDoc OAuth2 request URL. We recommend a button or a link titled\n\"Connect to PandaDoc\" if you are connecting users from a custom application. Users will see the \"Authorize Application\" screen.\nWhen the user clicks \"Authorize\", PandaDoc redirects the user back to your site with an authorization code inside the URL.\n\nhttps://app.pandadoc.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id={client_id}&redirect_uri={redirect_uri}&scope=read+write&response_type=code\n\n`client_id` and `redirect_uri` values should match your application settings.\n"
      }
    },
    "schemas": {
      "DocumentRevertToDraftResponse": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "status": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "date_created": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "date_modified": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "expiration_date": {
            "type": "string",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "version": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```