# Retrieve a placeholder

Operation ID: `getPlaceholder`

Group: PSA › Placeholders

[Open in the interactive reference](https://docs.api.lensing.ai/lensing/v1/endpoints/getPlaceholder)

`GET /psa/placeholders/{id}`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Retrieves a placeholder.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | string · v1 | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier of the placeholder you want to retrieve. Example: `"3f2a91c7-5d84-4b1e-9c60-8a7e2d4f0b13"`. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getPlaceholderOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the placeholder. Example: `"3f2a91c7-5d84-4b1e-9c60-8a7e2d4f0b13"`. |
| `name` | string | yes | The display name of the placeholder, for example 'Unassigned Backend Engineer'. Unique within the tenant. Example: `"Unassigned Backend Engineer"`. |
| `weeklyWorkingHours` | decimal | no | The weekly working hours used for planning, as a non-negative number of hours, for example 40.00. Absent when none was set. Example: `"40.00"`. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time | yes | The date and time the placeholder last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. Example: `"2026-08-14T09:12:33.184Z"`. |

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "3f2a91c7-5d84-4b1e-9c60-8a7e2d4f0b13",
    "name": "Unassigned Backend Engineer",
    "weeklyWorkingHours": "40.00",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2026-08-14T09:12:33.184Z"
  },
  "diagnostics": [
    {
      "code": "<code>",
      "message": "<message>",
      "severity": "error",
      "path": [
        "<path>"
      ],
      "details": "<details>"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Errors

| Code | Status |
| --- | --- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 400 |

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — The request carries no valid access token.
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests from this client address. The response has no body and no `Retry-After` header.
- `500` — Internal server error