---
title: "create_document"
description: "Create new documents within folders using this intuitive wizard, configuring content types to suit your needs. (Gitana 4.0)"
product: "Gitana"
version: "4.0"
url: "/documentation/gitana/4.0/developers/ui-dev/actions/create_document"
---

# create\_document

ID: `create_document`

This brings up the Create Document wizard that guides the user through the process of creating a new document within a folder. This wizard is aware of the currently viewed folder and the current user and derives its behavior based off of those contexts. Newly created content is created as a child of the current folder.

## Sample Code

```
var UI = require("ui");

var actionContext = {};
UI.startAction(observableHolder, "create_document", actionContext, function(err) {

    // if something went wrong, err will contain the error
    // otherwise, success

});
```

## Configuration

This action derives some of its behavior from the configuration service.

### Content Types

You can control which content types are available for this action by adjusting the `content-types` configuration block, like this:

```
{
    "content-types": {
        "remove": true,
        "items": [{
            "key": "my:article",
            "title": "My Article"
        }, {
            "key": "my:pressRelease",
            "title": "My Press Release"
        }]
    }
}
```

Suppose, for example, that you have three content types:

- My Article (`my:article`)
- My Press Release (`my:pressRelease`)
- My News Item (`my:newsItem`)

Suppose you'd like to have a folder named `My Articles` that only allows Articles to be created inside of it.

You can achieve this by:

1.  Setting the type of the folder to `my:articlesFolder`
2.  Setting up the following configuration block:

```
{
    "evaluator": "context-document-has-type",
    "condition": "my:articlesFolder",
    "config": {    
        "content-types": {
            "remove": true,
            "items": [{
                "key": "my:article",
                "title": "My Article"
            }]
        }
    }
}
```