# TikTok Upload Draft

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## Overview

TikTok Upload Draft is a **Step (action)** in **Social › TikTok**. Uploads a video to the creator's TikTok inbox as a draft for in-app review.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes **TikTok Upload Draft** against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on **General** and **Design**. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.

## Why use this node

TikTok Upload Draft is a **action step** in the **Social › TikTok** group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.

Typical reasons teams add **TikTok Upload Draft** to a flow:

- Automate "TikTok Upload Draft" as part of a larger Joomla or WordPress workflow
- Replace manual tiktok work with a repeatable, logged flow step
- Chain with triggers, logic, and messaging nodes on the same canvas

## Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

1. **Trigger or Webhook** → upstream steps → **TikTok Upload Draft** → **Send Email** or CMS update
2. **Scheduled trigger** → **TikTok Upload Draft** → **Debug** (while testing) → production action

## How to set it up

Same video source options as TikTok Post. Does not publish directly — the creator finishes in the TikTok app.

## Good to know

Uses /inbox/video/init instead of direct post. Useful when you want human review before publishing.

## Properties panel

The designer shows these tabs for this node:

| Tab | Purpose |
|-----|---------|
| **Info** | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| **General** | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| **AI** | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| **Design** | Node-specific configuration fields |

### System (automatic — not edited by the user)

These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `_nodeId` | Node ID | `node-id` | No | — | — |
| `_payloadFields` | Available Fields | `payload-panel` | No | — | — |

### User-configured — General tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `label` | Label | `text` | No | — | Node label |

### User-configured — Design tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `videoTransfer` | Video transfer | `select` (`pull_from_url` \| `file_upload`; default: `pull_from_url`) | No | — | — |
| `videoSource` | Video source | `textarea` | **Yes** | — | https://cdn.example.com/video.mp4 or {{node.videoUrl}} |
| `pollUntilComplete` | Poll until complete | `select` (`true` \| `false`; default: `false`) | No | — | — |
| `pollIntervalSeconds` | Poll interval (seconds) | `number` (default: `5`) | No | — | — |
| `maxPollAttempts` | Max poll attempts | `number` (default: `60`) | No | — | — |

### CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under **Node Configuration**, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.

## Output payload fields

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as
`{{tiktok_upload_draft.success}}`.

| Field key | Type | Description |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| `success` | boolean | Whether the operation completed successfully. |
| `publishId` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `status` | string | HTTP status code or operation status string. |
| `title` | string | Title text for the created or updated record. |
| `privacyLevel` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `videoTransfer` | string | Text value from this node's output. |
| `message` | string | Human-readable status, error, or result summary. |

## Validation rules

- **Video source** (`videoSource`) must be filled before the flow can be saved.

## Related nodes

Other steps in the same area of the palette:

- **TikTok Creator Info** (`tiktok-creator-info`) — Social › TikTok
- **TikTok Post** (`tiktok-post`) — Social › TikTok
- **TikTok Post Status** (`tiktok-post-status`) — Social › TikTok