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title: 1017: Invalid template. | API Docs
description: The template definition failed validation.
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**HTTP status:** `422`.

The template’s name, language, category or components do not satisfy the template rules. Nothing was submitted.

## Troubleshooting

- Read details\[] for the exact param (a JSON Pointer into your request) and each field’s own fault code.
- Compare the body against the template creation operation’s documented shape.

## Related

- [Templates guide](/channel/whatsapp/guides/templates/index.md)
- [Sending a message](/channel/whatsapp/api/resources/chats/subresources/messages/methods/send/index.md)