Use of admin templateId stopped working through api

  1. On Tuesday 4/29/25 I created a new api route in my app that connects to https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/${userEmail}/webinars. On Tuesday it worked to create a webinar using a templateId that was accessible to all users that I made in the admin account. I created the webinar with a non-admin email address still within my organization successfully, and it showed up on that users zoom dashboard.

  2. Then on Wednesday the route did not work to create a webinar using a templateId, unless I used the email of the administrator of the account. I did not release any code that would have caused this change.

  3. I confirmed in the admin’s Zoom account under Account Management > Account Settings > Schedule Webinar the “Allow Admins to define ‘Webinar Templates’ and make them available to users.” Is switched to on, and I turned that setting on and off.

  4. I confirmed the error message of “Only the template owner has the permission to use this template for Webinar creation.” Shows up when I use the api with a email address of a user in our organization, but when it’s a fake email but still with our domain the error message is “User does not exist”.

  5. On Tuesday while testing the routes functionality I did create additional Admin templates in the Zoom admin dashboard, and I’m wondering if I somehow triggered some bug that caused the settings to show up as Admin templates are available to be used by non admins, but it doesn’t actually work through the api.

  6. I confirmed that when I logged in as a non-admin into their zoom account, I can use an Admin template to create a webinar manually, so it is only not working through the api.

Authentication method:

  1. We use Zoom OAuth to authenticate users

curl --location 'https://{ourUrl}’ \

–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’ \

–header 'Authorization: Bearer {token}’ \

–data-raw '{

“topic”: “Topic”,

“agenda”: “Agenda”,

“emailOfHost”: “not.admin@example.com",

“webinarCoHosts”: [“othernot.admin@example.com"],

“startTime”: 1752697556000,

“endTime”: 1752701156000,

“webinarUuid”: “uuid”,

“templateId”: “ourAdminTemplateId”

}’

Hi @ambl
Thanks for reaching out to us!
Allow me some time to troubleshoot this and will get back to you with an update

Hi Elisa, This just started working again, not sure why, but I am okay for now. That being said, I would appreciate knowing what to do in the future if this stops working again.

Hey @ambl
Thanks for the update. I will look into it and share more about my findings