---
title: Read Promotion Steps
component: pingone-api-ea
page_id: pingone-api-ea:platform:early-access/configuration-management/promotions/get-promotion-steps
canonical_url: https://developer.pingidentity.com/pingone-api-ea/platform/early-access/configuration-management/promotions/get-promotion-steps.html
section_ids:
  headers: Headers
  example-request: Example Request
  example-response: Example Response
---

# Read Promotion Steps

##

   

```none
GET {{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps
```

Use the GET `{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps` request to return the operations used for a promotion plan, including the payload for each operation. Refer to [Read One Promotion](get-one-promotion.html) to get information about the promotion.

The process of promoting a resource or resources from a source environment to a target environment involves calling PingOne APIs to perform the operations in the target environment. These are the promotion steps returned.

Pagination is supported for response using the `limit` and `cursor` query parameters.

> **Collapse: Query parameters**
>
> | Parameter | Description                                            |
> | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
> | `limit`   | Indicates the number of steps to be returned per page. |
> | `cursor`  | Indicates the first item to retrieve.                  |

### Headers

Authorization      Bearer {{accessToken}}

##

### Example Request

* cURL

* C#

* Go

* HTTP

* Java

* jQuery

* NodeJS

* Python

* PHP

* Ruby

* Swift

```shell
curl --location --globoff '{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {{accessToken}}'
```

```csharp
var options = new RestClientOptions("{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps")
{
  MaxTimeout = -1,
};
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("", Method.Get);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}");
RestResponse response = await client.ExecuteAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
```

```golang
package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io"
)

func main() {

  url := "{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps"
  method := "GET"

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}")

  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

```http
GET /v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps HTTP/1.1
Host: {{apiPath}}
Authorization: Bearer {{accessToken}}
```

```java
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("text/plain");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps")
  .method("GET", body)
  .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}")
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
```

```javascript
var settings = {
  "url": "{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps",
  "method": "GET",
  "timeout": 0,
  "headers": {
    "Authorization": "Bearer {{accessToken}}"
  },
};

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});
```

```javascript
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'GET',
  'url': '{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps',
  'headers': {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'
  }
};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});
```

```python
import requests

url = "{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps"

payload = {}
headers = {
  'Authorization': 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'
}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)
```

```php
<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new HTTP_Request2();
$request->setUrl('{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
$request->setConfig(array(
  'follow_redirects' => TRUE
));
$request->setHeader(array(
  'Authorization' => 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'
));
try {
  $response = $request->send();
  if ($response->getStatus() == 200) {
    echo $response->getBody();
  }
  else {
    echo 'Unexpected HTTP status: ' . $response->getStatus() . ' ' .
    $response->getReasonPhrase();
  }
}
catch(HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {
  echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
```

```ruby
require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port);
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = "Bearer {{accessToken}}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```swift
var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "{{apiPath}}/v1/environments/{{envId}}/promotions/{{promotionID}}/promotionSteps")!,timeoutInterval: Double.infinity)
request.addValue("Bearer {{accessToken}}", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")

request.httpMethod = "GET"

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in
  guard let data = data else {
    print(String(describing: error))
    return
  }
  print(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!)
}

task.resume()
```

### Example Response

200 OK

```json
{
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://api.pingone.com/v1/environments/abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6/promotions/461a33b0-f041-44b0-92ff-e59402c1c2ac/promotionSteps?limit=25"
        }
    },
    "_embedded": {
        "promotionSteps": [
            {
                "action": "POST",
                "resourceUrl": "https://api.pingone.com/v1/environments/abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6/passwordPolicies/",
                "sourceResource": {
                    "name": "Same Day Policy",
                    "id": "cd502ee4-176a-438a-a947-a4d8cffb0fdb"
                },
                "payload": {
                    "id": "cd502ee4-176a-438a-a947-a4d8cffb0fdb",
                    "environment": {
                        "id": "abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6"
                    },
                    "name": "Same Day Policy",
                    "description": "A policy that must be updated within one day.",
                    "excludesProfileData": true,
                    "notSimilarToCurrent": true,
                    "excludesCommonlyUsed": true,
                    "minComplexity": 7,
                    "maxAgeDays": 182,
                    "history": {
                        "count": 8,
                        "retentionDays": 365
                    },
                    "lockout": {
                        "failureCount": 3,
                        "durationSeconds": 900
                    },
                    "populationCount": 8,
                    "default": false
                },
                "totalDistance": 100
            },
            {
                "action": "PUT",
                "resourceUrl": "https://api.pingone.com/v1/environments/abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6/themes/f0c75a0b-859e-433d-9edc-07a7c847e185",
                "sourceResource": {
                    "name": "themes:5ab94557-59c3-4afc-bbf6-046444bd04b8",
                    "id": "5ab94557-59c3-4afc-bbf6-046444bd04b8"
                },
                "targetResource": {
                    "name": "themes:f0c75a0b-859e-433d-9edc-07a7c847e185",
                    "id": "f0c75a0b-859e-433d-9edc-07a7c847e185"
                },
                "payload": {
                    "environment": {
                        "id": "abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6"
                    },
                    "id": "f0c75a0b-859e-433d-9edc-07a7c847e185",
                    "template": "default",
                    "default": true,
                    "configuration": {
                        "logoType": "IMAGE",
                        "logo": {
                            "href": "https://d3uinntk0mqu3p.cloudfront.net/branding/market/a3d073bc-3108-49ad-b96c-404bea59a1d0.png",
                            "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
                        },
                        "backgroundType": "DEFAULT",
                        "bodyTextColor": "#686f77",
                        "cardColor": "#ffffff",
                        "headingTextColor": "#686f77",
                        "linkTextColor": "#2996cc",
                        "buttonColor": "#2996cc",
                        "buttonTextColor": "#ffffff",
                        "name": "Ping Default",
                        "backgroundOutlineColor": "#2996cc",
                        "foregroundMainColor": "#2996cc",
                        "foregroundHighlightColor": "#2996cc"
                    },
                    "modified": "2025-07-03T16:40:16.242Z"
                },
                "totalDistance": 9.45578231292517
            },
            {
                "action": "PUT",
                "resourceUrl": "https://api.pingone.com/v1/environments/abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6/populations/27091971-0a42-4f67-95d1-d617fc2a16e5",
                "sourceResource": {
                    "name": "NA Eng Austin",
                    "id": "26a126c2-054f-4f18-b077-8226c0c4bf3e"
                },
                "targetResource": {
                    "name": "NA Eng Austin",
                    "id": "27091971-0a42-4f67-95d1-d617fc2a16e5"
                },
                "payload": {
                    "id": "27091971-0a42-4f67-95d1-d617fc2a16e5",
                    "environment": {
                        "id": "abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6"
                    },
                    "name": "NA Eng Austin",
                    "description": "NA Engineering",
                    "userCount": 2,
                    "passwordPolicy": {
                        "id": "cd502ee4-176a-438a-a947-a4d8cffb0fdb"
                    },
                    "preferredLanguage": "en",
                    "theme": {
                        "id": "f0c75a0b-859e-433d-9edc-07a7c847e185"
                    },
                    "default": false
                },
                "totalDistance": 25
            }
        ]
    },
    "count": 3,
    "size": 3
}
```
