Project form

Every community has a project form: the questionnaire that each of its projects fills in, on top of the built-in project profile fields. On this page we'll dive into the endpoints you use to define that form's questions, and into the way an application definition reuses those same questions so applicants answer them once.

How the project form fits together

A community is created with exactly one default project form, and it starts out empty. That form is the community's project profile questionnaire — read it and write it through GET and PUT /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm.

A form is an ordered list of questions, which you may group into ordered sections. Each question carries an answer type, its ordering, a privacy level that decides who sees the answer, and — for the choice types — an ordered list of options. Every project that belongs to the community answers this one form, and its answers are stored per community: a project that belongs to three communities keeps three independent sets of answers. Reading and writing those answers is covered on the Projects page.

A community can also hold additional project forms beyond the default one, managed through the /api/ProjectForm endpoints. These exist so that an application round can collect a different set of project questions from its applicants. They use the identical question model, and they are never the community's live profile form.

These endpoints are community administration endpoints — plan on calling them as an administrator of the community that owns the form.

Answer types

answerType is sent as an integer and decides how a question is answered.

Value	Type	Notes
`0`	Radio choice	Single choice. Requires `questionOptions`.
`1`	Checkbox choice	Multiple choice. Requires `questionOptions`.
`2`	Dropdown choice	Single choice. Requires `questionOptions`.
`3`	Multiple choice	Multi-select. Requires `questionOptions`.
`4`	Money	A monetary amount.
`5`	Calendar	A date.
`7`	Short text	Single-line free text.
`8`	Long text	Rich/multi-line free text.
`9`	File	A file upload.
`10`	Scale	A numeric rating on a scale.
`11`	Country	A country picker.
`12`	Table	A grid of cells.
`13`	Numeric	A plain number.

The negative values are project fields: questions that read and write one of the project's built-in profile attributes instead of storing a separate answer. Add one to the form when you want that attribute collected alongside the rest of the questionnaire.

Value	Project field	Value	Project field
`-1`	Logo	`-8`	Development stage
`-2`	Cover image	`-9`	Industry / category
`-4`	LinkedIn URL	`-10`	Country
`-5`	Facebook URL	`-11`	City
`-6`	Website URL	`-12`	Description
`-7`	Sustainable Development Goals	`-13`	Name

Questions returned by the API carry a computed isProjectField flag, which is true for exactly these types. 6 and -3 are not assigned.

Question privacy levels

privacyLevel is sent as an integer and decides who can see a project's answer to that question.

Value	Level	Who sees the answer
`0`	Undefined	Unset. Treat as public.
`1`	Public	Anyone who can see the project.
`2`	Community	Approved members of the community.
`3`	Team	The project's team only.
`4`	Custom	Only the circles listed in `privacyCirclesIds`.
`5`	Team and mentors	The project's team plus its mentors.
`6`	Set by team	The project's team chooses the level itself.

Conditional visibility

A question can be shown only when other answers on the same form match a set of rules. conditionalLogicType is 0 none, 1 show when any rule matches, 2 show only when all rules match. Each rule in formQuestionConditionalLogicList names another question on the same form and compares it with conditionLogic: 1 equal, 2 not equal, 3 greater than, 4 less than, 5 contains, 6 does not contain, 7 is empty, 8 is not empty.

GET/api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm

Get the community project form

This endpoint allows you to retrieve a community's default project form — every question its projects answer, with the sections and options that go with them.

Path parameters

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the community whose project form you want.

Response attributes

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the form.
Name
name
Type
string
Description
The form name. The community's default project form is named Projects.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
A description of the form.
Name
communityId
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the community the form belongs to.
Name
creationDate
Type
string | null
Description
When the form was created (ISO 8601).
Name
lastEditionDate
Type
string | null
Description
When the form was last edited (ISO 8601).
Name
userCreatorId
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the user who created the form.
Name
includeInLandingPage
Type
boolean
Description
Whether the community's public landing page shows its projects section.
Name
isDefaultCommunityProjectForm
Type
boolean
Description
Whether this is the community's live project profile form. Always true on this endpoint.
Name
sections
Type
array
Description
The form's sections, ordered by order. Described under sections array items below.
Name
questions
Type
array
Description
The form's questions, ordered by questionOrder. Described under questions array items below.

`sections` array items

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the section.
Name
title
Type
string
Description
The section heading.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
The section's introductory text.
Name
order
Type
integer
Description
The section's position on the form.

`questions` array items

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the question. This is the ID you link an application question to, and the ID a project's answers are keyed by.
Name
title
Type
string
Description
The question's label in the form editor.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
Help text shown under the question. May contain HTML.
Name
question
Type
string
Description
The prompt shown to the person answering.
Name
questionOrder
Type
integer
Description
The question's position on the form, or within its section.
Name
sectionId
Type
integer | null
Description
The section the question belongs to. null when the question is not in a section.
Name
answerType
Type
integer
Description
How the question is answered. See Answer types above.
Name
isProjectField
Type
boolean
Description
Whether this question maps to a built-in project attribute — true for the negative answer types.
Name
mandatoryAnswer
Type
boolean
Description
Whether an answer is required.
Name
editableAnswer
Type
boolean
Description
Whether the project may change its answer after answering once.
Name
allowMultipleAnswer
Type
boolean
Description
Whether more than one value may be given.
Name
questionOptions
Type
array
Description
The selectable options, ordered by questionOptionOrder. Only populated for the choice answer types. Described under questionOptions array items below.
Name
questionLinks
Type
array
Description
Reference links attached to the question. Each item is an object with a single questionLink string.
Name
isFilterable
Type
boolean | null
Description
Whether the community's project list can be filtered by this question's answer. Meaningful for the country and choice answer types.
Name
privacyLevel
Type
integer
Description
Who can see the answer. See Question privacy levels above.
Name
privacyCirclesIds
Type
array of integer
Description
The circle IDs allowed to see the answer. Only meaningful when privacyLevel is 4 (Custom).
Name
conditionalLogicType
Type
integer
Description
Whether the question is conditionally shown, and how its rules combine. See Conditional visibility above.
Name
formQuestionConditionalLogicList
Type
array
Description
The visibility rules. Each item carries id, conditionFormQuestionId (another question on this form), conditionLogic, and either formQuestionOptionId or customValue as the value to compare against.
Name
questionType
Type
integer
Description
When the question is asked: 0 as part of the project profile, 1 only once the project has been approved into the community.
Name
includeInProjectProfile
Type
boolean
Description
Whether the answer is shown on the project's profile.
Name
hasLimit
Type
boolean
Description
Whether a length limit applies. Text answer types only.
Name
limitType
Type
integer
Description
The unit of the limit: 1 characters, 2 words.
Name
limitValue
Type
integer | null
Description
The maximum allowed by the limit.
Name
defaultProjectFormQuestionId
Type
integer | null
Description
The question on the community's default project form that this question mirrors. Always null here — see Mirroring a round question onto the default form below.

Request

GET

/api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm

curl -X GET https://api.babele.co/api/Community/999/ProjectForm \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

Response

{
"id": 1258,
"name": "Projects",
"description": "Project profile questions",
"communityId": 999,
"creationDate": "2023-05-23T14:19:16.203812Z",
"lastEditionDate": "2024-12-16T23:56:29.628361Z",
"userCreatorId": 398964,
"includeInLandingPage": true,
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": true,
"sections": [
    {
        "id": 42,
        "title": "About your startup",
        "description": "",
        "order": 0
    }
],
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 781,
        "title": "Elevator pitch",
        "description": "<p>One sentence describing what you do.</p>",
        "question": "Tell us about your startup",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "sectionId": 42,
        "answerType": 8,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "editableAnswer": true,
        "allowMultipleAnswer": false,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "questionLinks": [],
        "isFilterable": null,
        "privacyLevel": 1,
        "privacyCirclesIds": [],
        "conditionalLogicType": 0,
        "formQuestionConditionalLogicList": [],
        "questionType": 0,
        "includeInProjectProfile": true,
        "hasLimit": true,
        "limitType": 2,
        "limitValue": 150,
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null
    },
    {
        "id": 782,
        "title": "Stage",
        "description": "",
        "question": "What stage is your startup at?",
        "questionOrder": 1,
        "sectionId": 42,
        "answerType": 0,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "editableAnswer": true,
        "allowMultipleAnswer": false,
        "questionOptions": [
            { "id": 900, "questionOption": "Idea", "questionOptionOrder": 0 },
            { "id": 901, "questionOption": "MVP", "questionOptionOrder": 1 },
            { "id": 902, "questionOption": "Revenue", "questionOptionOrder": 2 }
        ],
        "questionLinks": [],
        "isFilterable": true,
        "privacyLevel": 1,
        "privacyCirclesIds": [],
        "conditionalLogicType": 0,
        "formQuestionConditionalLogicList": [],
        "questionType": 0,
        "includeInProjectProfile": true,
        "hasLimit": false,
        "limitType": 1,
        "limitValue": null,
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null
    }
]
}

PUT/api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm

Update the community project form

This endpoint allows you to define the community's project form: add, edit, reorder and remove its questions, options and sections. It responds with the saved form, in the same shape as the get endpoint above.

This is a snapshot write, not a patch. When you send a questions array it replaces the question set: entries with an id of 0 are created, entries whose id matches an existing question are updated in place, and any existing question you leave out is deleted, together with every answer projects have already given to it. Read the form first, change what you need, and send the whole thing back. Sections behave the same way.

Leaving questions out of the body entirely — or sending null — leaves the existing questions untouched. Sending [] deletes all of them. The same applies to sections.

Path parameters

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the community whose project form you are updating.

Request body attributes

Name
communityId
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the community. Send the same value as the path parameter.
Name
includeInLandingPage
Type
boolean
Description
Whether the community's public landing page shows its projects section.
Name
sections
Type
array
Description
The complete set of sections. Described under sections array items below.
Name
questions
Type
array
Description
The complete set of questions. Described under questions array items below.

`sections` array items

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
0 creates a new section. Any other value must be the ID of a section already on this form, or the request is rejected.
Name
title
Type
string
Description
Required. The section heading. It may not be blank.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
The section's introductory text.
Name
order
Type
integer
Description
Required. The section's position. Every section in one request must have a distinct order.

`questions` array items

Takes the same fields as the questions items of the get endpoint above, minus the computed isProjectField. The ones that change meaning on the write path:

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
0 creates a new question. An id that matches an existing question on this form updates it in place.
Name
title
Type
string
Description
Required. The question's label in the form editor.
Name
question
Type
string
Description
The prompt shown to the person answering. Required for every answer type except the project fields, which take their prompt from the attribute they map to.
Name
questionOrder
Type
integer
Description
Required. Keep the values distinct — ties are broken arbitrarily.
Name
answerType
Type
integer
Description
Required. See Answer types above.
Name
questionOptions
Type
array
Description
Required, and non-empty, for the four choice answer types; leave it out for the others. Each item takes id (0 to create), questionOption and questionOptionOrder. Options are diffed the same way as questions — an option you leave out is deleted, and so are the answers pointing at it.
Name
sectionId
Type
integer | null
Description
The section this question belongs to. null leaves it uncategorised. To place a question in a section you are creating in the same request, set this to that section's order value; the API resolves it to the new section's ID once it is saved.
Name
formQuestionConditionalLogicList
Type
array
Description
The visibility rules. Every conditionFormQuestionId must be a question that exists on this same form, or the request is rejected.
Name
privacyCirclesIds
Type
array of integer
Description
The circles that may see the answer. Only applied when privacyLevel is 4 (Custom).

Possible errors

Name
401 Unauthorized
Description
The request is missing valid authentication.
Name
404 Not Found
Description
No community project form matches id.
Name
500 Internal Server Error
Description
The body failed validation — a blank section title, two sections sharing an order, a sectionId or conditionFormQuestionId that is not on this form, or an invalid conditional-logic value.

Request

PUT

/api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm

curl -X PUT https://api.babele.co/api/Community/999/ProjectForm \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"communityId":999,"includeInLandingPage":true,"sections":[{"id":42,"title":"About your startup","description":"","order":0}],"questions":[{"id":781,"title":"Elevator pitch","question":"Tell us about your startup","questionOrder":0,"sectionId":42,"answerType":8,"mandatoryAnswer":true,"editableAnswer":true,"privacyLevel":1,"conditionalLogicType":0,"hasLimit":true,"limitType":2,"limitValue":150},{"id":0,"title":"Team size","question":"How many people work on this full time?","questionOrder":1,"sectionId":42,"answerType":13,"mandatoryAnswer":false,"editableAnswer":true,"privacyLevel":2,"conditionalLogicType":0}]}'

Response

{
"id": 1258,
"name": "Projects",
"communityId": 999,
"lastEditionDate": "2026-08-07T10:12:44.881204Z",
"userCreatorId": 398964,
"includeInLandingPage": true,
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": true,
"sections": [
    { "id": 42, "title": "About your startup", "description": "", "order": 0 }
],
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 781,
        "title": "Elevator pitch",
        "question": "Tell us about your startup",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "sectionId": 42,
        "answerType": 8,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "editableAnswer": true,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "privacyLevel": 1,
        "privacyCirclesIds": [],
        "conditionalLogicType": 0,
        "formQuestionConditionalLogicList": [],
        "questionType": 0,
        "includeInProjectProfile": true,
        "hasLimit": true,
        "limitType": 2,
        "limitValue": 150,
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null
    },
    {
        "id": 1043,
        "title": "Team size",
        "question": "How many people work on this full time?",
        "questionOrder": 1,
        "sectionId": 42,
        "answerType": 13,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": false,
        "editableAnswer": true,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "privacyLevel": 2,
        "privacyCirclesIds": [],
        "conditionalLogicType": 0,
        "formQuestionConditionalLogicList": [],
        "questionType": 0,
        "includeInProjectProfile": true,
        "hasLimit": false,
        "limitValue": null,
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null
    }
]
}

GET/api/ProjectForm/GetAll?communityId={communityId}

List a community's other project forms

This endpoint allows you to list the extra project forms a community keeps for its application rounds. The community's default project form is not included — fetch that one through GET /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm.

Query parameters

Name
communityId
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the community whose forms you want. Send it explicitly; without it the call is not scoped to any community and returns nothing useful.

Response attributes

Name
count
Type
integer
Description
The number of forms returned.
Name
list
Type
array
Description
The forms, each in the same shape as the response of GET /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm, with isDefaultCommunityProjectForm always false.
Name
filters
Type
null
Description
Not used by this endpoint.

Request

GET

/api/ProjectForm/GetAll?communityId={communityId}

curl -X GET "https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/GetAll?communityId=999" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

Response

{
"count": 1,
"filters": null,
"list": [
    {
        "id": 4501,
        "name": "Accelerator intake — project questions",
        "description": "",
        "communityId": 999,
        "creationDate": "2026-01-10T10:00:00Z",
        "lastEditionDate": "2026-01-10T10:00:00Z",
        "userCreatorId": 398964,
        "isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": false,
        "includeInLandingPage": false,
        "sections": [],
        "questions": []
    }
]
}

POST/api/ProjectForm

Create a project form

This endpoint allows you to create an additional project form for a community — the kind you attach to an application round so it collects a different set of project questions. It responds with the created form.

Do not use this to create a community's profile form. Every community already has exactly one, created with the community itself; leave isDefaultCommunityProjectForm unset here.

Request body attributes

Name
name
Type
string
Description
Required. The form's name.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
A description of the form.
Name
communityId
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the community the form belongs to.
Name
questions
Type
array
Description
The form's questions. Same shape as the questions items of PUT /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm above.
Name
sections
Type
array
Description
The form's sections. Same shape as the sections items above.

Request

POST

/api/ProjectForm

curl -X POST https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"Accelerator intake — project questions","description":"","communityId":999,"sections":[],"questions":[{"id":0,"title":"Traction","question":"What traction do you have so far?","questionOrder":0,"answerType":8,"mandatoryAnswer":true,"editableAnswer":true,"privacyLevel":2,"conditionalLogicType":0}]}'

Response

{
"id": 4501,
"name": "Accelerator intake — project questions",
"description": "",
"communityId": 999,
"creationDate": "2026-08-07T10:20:03.114882Z",
"lastEditionDate": "2026-08-07T10:20:03.114882Z",
"userCreatorId": 398964,
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": false,
"includeInLandingPage": false,
"sections": [],
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 8001,
        "title": "Traction",
        "question": "What traction do you have so far?",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "answerType": 8,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "editableAnswer": true,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "privacyLevel": 2,
        "privacyCirclesIds": [],
        "conditionalLogicType": 0,
        "formQuestionConditionalLogicList": [],
        "questionType": 0,
        "includeInProjectProfile": true,
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null,
        "sectionId": null
    }
]
}

GET/api/ProjectForm/{id}

Get a project form

This endpoint allows you to retrieve any project form by its own ID — a community's default form or one of its round forms. The response is the same shape as GET /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm.

Path parameters

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the form.

Possible errors

Name
404 Not Found
Description
No form matches id.

Request

GET

/api/ProjectForm/{id}

curl -X GET https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/4501 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

Response

{
"id": 4501,
"name": "Accelerator intake — project questions",
"communityId": 999,
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": false,
"sections": [],
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 8001,
        "title": "Traction",
        "question": "What traction do you have so far?",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "answerType": 8,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "privacyLevel": 2,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null,
        "sectionId": null
    }
]
}

PUT/api/ProjectForm/{id}

Update a project form

This endpoint allows you to update any project form by its own ID. It takes the same body as PUT /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm — including the same snapshot-write semantics for questions, questionOptions and sections — and additionally applies name and description.

Use this endpoint for a round's project form. For a community's profile form, prefer PUT /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm, which does not need you to look the form ID up first.

Path parameters

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the form.

Request body attributes

Name
name
Type
string
Description
The form's name.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
A description of the form.
Name
communityId
Type
integer
Description
The ID of the community the form belongs to.
Name
questions
Type
array
Description
The complete set of questions. Omit to leave them untouched; send [] to delete all of them.
Name
sections
Type
array
Description
The complete set of sections, with the same semantics.

Request

PUT

/api/ProjectForm/{id}

curl -X PUT https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/4501 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"Accelerator intake — project questions","communityId":999,"questions":[{"id":8001,"title":"Traction","question":"What traction do you have so far?","questionOrder":0,"answerType":8,"mandatoryAnswer":true,"editableAnswer":true,"privacyLevel":2,"conditionalLogicType":0}]}'

Response

{
"id": 4501,
"name": "Accelerator intake — project questions",
"communityId": 999,
"lastEditionDate": "2026-08-07T10:31:52.407611Z",
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": false,
"sections": [],
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 8001,
        "title": "Traction",
        "question": "What traction do you have so far?",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "answerType": 8,
        "isProjectField": false,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "editableAnswer": true,
        "privacyLevel": 2,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null,
        "sectionId": null
    }
]
}

DELETE/api/ProjectForm/{id}

Delete a project form

This endpoint allows you to delete a project form. It responds with 204 No Content.

A form can only be deleted while none of its questions have been answered. Once any project has answered any question on it, the form is kept.

Path parameters

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the form to delete.

Possible errors

Name
404 Not Found
Description
No form matches id.
Name
500 Internal Server Error
Description
At least one question on the form already has answers, so it cannot be deleted.

Request

DELETE

/api/ProjectForm/{id}

curl -X DELETE https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/4501 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN"

Response

204 No Content

DELETE/api/ProjectForm/RemoveQuestionById/{questionId}

Remove a project form question

This endpoint allows you to remove a single question from a project form without resending the whole form. It responds with 204 No Content.

Removing a question also removes every answer projects have already given to it, and it does so without warning you first. This cannot be undone. If you only want to stop asking a question, consider clearing includeInProjectProfile instead of deleting it.

A question that an application definition currently links to cannot be removed. Repoint or drop that link first — see Linking application questions to the project form below.

Path parameters

Name
questionId
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the question to remove.

Request

DELETE

/api/ProjectForm/RemoveQuestionById/{questionId}

curl -X DELETE https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/RemoveQuestionById/8001 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN"

Response

204 No Content

POST/api/ProjectForm/{id}/Duplicate

Duplicate a project form

This endpoint allows you to deep-copy a project form — its questions, options, sections and conditional logic — into a new form. Answers are never copied. It responds with the new form.

The copy is never marked as the community's profile form, even when the source was. Only administrators of the source form's community may duplicate it.

Path parameters

Name
id
Type
integer
Description
Required. The ID of the form to copy.

Request body attributes

Name
name
Type
string
Description
The new form's name. Defaults to Copy of {source name}. Projects is reserved for a community's own profile form and is rejected here.
Name
targetType
Type
string
Description
The kind of form to create. Send Project or leave it out; any other value is rejected.

Possible errors

Name
400 Bad Request
Description
targetType is not a supported value, or the resulting name would be the reserved Projects.
Name
403 Forbidden
Description
You are not an administrator of the source form's community.
Name
404 Not Found
Description
No form matches id.

Request

POST

/api/ProjectForm/{id}/Duplicate

curl -X POST https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/4501/Duplicate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"Accelerator intake — round 2","targetType":"Project"}'

Response

{
"id": 4632,
"name": "Accelerator intake — round 2",
"communityId": 999,
"creationDate": "2026-08-07T10:44:19.552103Z",
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": false,
"sections": [],
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 8114,
        "title": "Traction",
        "question": "What traction do you have so far?",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "answerType": 8,
        "mandatoryAnswer": true,
        "privacyLevel": 2,
        "questionOptions": [],
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": null,
        "sectionId": null
    }
]
}

Linking application questions to the project form

An application definition's question list is not a single form. It is an ordered mix of two kinds of question: the definition's own application questions, and questions taken straight from a project form. A question of the second kind is not a copy — it is the project form question itself, shown inside the application. That is what linking means here, and it is why an applicant only answers the project profile once.

The mix lives in applicationDefinitionQuestionOrders on the create and update bodies of an application definition, and comes back as questionOrders when you read one. See Applications for those endpoints in full.

`applicationDefinitionQuestionOrders` array items

Name
questionType
Type
integer
Description
Which side the entry comes from: 1 a project form question (a link), 2 one of the definition's own application form questions.
Name
projectFormQuestionId
Type
integer | null
Description
The project form question to link. Set it when questionType is 1, and leave applicationFormQuestionId null.
Name
applicationFormQuestionId
Type
integer | null
Description
The application form question to show. Set it when questionType is 2, and leave projectFormQuestionId null.
Name
order
Type
integer
Description
The entry's position in the mixed list the applicant sees.

Which questions you can link to

Which project form the IDs must come from depends on projectFormId on the application definition:

Name
projectFormId
Type
integer | null
Description
null — the default — links against the community's own project form, so valid IDs are the questions[].id values from GET /api/Community/{id}/ProjectForm. Set it to the ID of one of the community's other project forms to link against that one instead; valid IDs then come from GET /api/ProjectForm/{id}. A new definition may not point projectFormId at the community's own profile form — leave it null for that.

Reading a definition back with GET /api/ApplicationDefinition/{id} saves you a lookup: projectForm on the response is already the resolved form behind its questionType: 1 entries.

How answers travel

Answers to linked questions are submitted in projectAnswers on the application body, separately from the application's own answers, and each is keyed by the project form question it belongs to. Because they are stored against that question, they are the project's answers — nothing needs copying across when the application is accepted, and by the time the project is live in the community its profile already carries them.

Rejecting an application changes none of this.

Constraints

Name
Removing a linked question
Description
A project form question that a definition currently links to cannot be deleted while the link exists. Drop or repoint the entry first.
Name
Reuse
Description
There is no uniqueness rule on either side. One project form question may be linked from any number of definitions and rounds at once.
Name
Project fields across rounds
Description
When the rounds of one application group use their own project forms, each project field answer type may appear in only one round of the group, and the project name field must be in the first round. Breaking either rule is rejected with 400 Bad Request.

Request

POST

/api/ApplicationDefinition

curl -X POST https://api.babele.co/api/ApplicationDefinition \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"communityId":999,"name":"Accelerator 2026","formId":88,"projectFormId":null,"createProject":true,"applicationDefinitionQuestionOrders":[{"questionType":2,"applicationFormQuestionId":7001,"projectFormQuestionId":null,"order":0},{"questionType":1,"applicationFormQuestionId":null,"projectFormQuestionId":781,"order":1},{"questionType":1,"applicationFormQuestionId":null,"projectFormQuestionId":782,"order":2}]}'

Read back

{
"id": 305,
"name": "Accelerator 2026",
"communityId": 999,
"formId": 88,
"projectFormId": null,
"usesDefaultProjectForm": true,
"questionOrders": [
    { "questionType": 2, "applicationFormQuestionId": 7001, "projectFormQuestionId": null, "order": 0 },
    { "questionType": 1, "applicationFormQuestionId": null, "projectFormQuestionId": 781, "order": 1 },
    { "questionType": 1, "applicationFormQuestionId": null, "projectFormQuestionId": 782, "order": 2 }
],
"projectForm": { "id": 1258, "name": "Projects", "isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": true }
}

Applicant answers

{
"applicationDefinitionId": 305,
"projectName": "SolarKit",
"projectAnswers": [
    { "formId": 1258, "formQuestionId": 781, "answer": "Modular solar kits for rural clinics." },
    { "formId": 1258, "formQuestionId": 782, "answer": null, "optionAnswerOrder": 1 }
]
}

Sending applicationDefinitionQuestionOrders replaces the whole mix. To remove one link, resend the array without that entry; to repoint it, resend it with a different projectFormQuestionId. Omitting the array leaves the current mix untouched, and sending [] clears it.

Mirroring a round question onto the default form

When a round uses its own project form, its questions can be kept in step with the community's profile form. Set defaultProjectFormQuestionId on a question of the round's form to the ID of the question on the community's default project form it corresponds to.

What mirroring does

Every time the round's form is saved, the mirrored question takes its prompt text, its isFilterable flag, its privacyLevel and its options from the default form's question — so anything you send for those fields on a mirrored question is ignored. This is a pull: editing the default question does not reach the mirrored one until that form is next saved.

When an application is accepted, an answer given against a mirrored question is also written onto the default form's question, unless that question already has an answer for the project.

Rules

Name
Same community
Description
The target must be a question on the same community's default project form.
Name
Same answer type
Description
The target's answerType must match the mirroring question's exactly.
Name
Not on the default form
Description
defaultProjectFormQuestionId can only be set on a question that belongs to one of the community's other project forms, never on the profile form itself.
Name
Removing the target
Description
Deleting the default form's question clears the pointer on anything mirroring it. The mirrored question keeps its last synced text and options and simply stops following.

Breaking any of the first three rules causes the save to be rejected. Send null to stop mirroring.

Request

PUT

/api/ProjectForm/{id}

curl -X PUT https://api.babele.co/api/ProjectForm/4501 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJleGFtcGxlIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQzODY1MjA3fQ.DEMO_SIGNATURE_NOT_A_REAL_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"Accelerator intake — project questions","communityId":999,"questions":[{"id":9101,"title":"Stage","question":"What stage is your startup at?","questionOrder":0,"answerType":0,"mandatoryAnswer":true,"editableAnswer":true,"privacyLevel":1,"conditionalLogicType":0,"defaultProjectFormQuestionId":782}]}'

Response

{
"id": 4501,
"name": "Accelerator intake — project questions",
"communityId": 999,
"isDefaultCommunityProjectForm": false,
"questions": [
    {
        "id": 9101,
        "title": "Stage",
        "question": "What stage is your startup at?",
        "questionOrder": 0,
        "answerType": 0,
        "isFilterable": true,
        "privacyLevel": 1,
        "questionOptions": [
            { "id": 1200, "questionOption": "Idea", "questionOptionOrder": 0 },
            { "id": 1201, "questionOption": "MVP", "questionOptionOrder": 1 },
            { "id": 1202, "questionOption": "Revenue", "questionOptionOrder": 2 }
        ],
        "defaultProjectFormQuestionId": 782,
        "sectionId": null
    }
]
}

Project form

Path parameters

Response attributes

sections array items

questions array items

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Response

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sections array items

questions array items

Possible errors

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Response

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Request

Response

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Request

Response

applicationDefinitionQuestionOrders array items

Which questions you can link to

How answers travel

Constraints

Request

Read back

Applicant answers

What mirroring does

Rules

Request

Response

`sections` array items

`questions` array items

`sections` array items

`questions` array items

`applicationDefinitionQuestionOrders` array items