Jobs are created as "unassigned" by default and are queued in the vWork client ready for the dispatcher to assign to a time and worker.

Alternatively, you can pre-assign the job to a worker by setting the worker_id and planned_start_at values. (If you do not supply a planned start at, but do specify a worker, the job will be assigned to the worker straight away.)

To create a job with a worker that should be started immediately, you can send either worker_id or worker_third_party_id as per the following examples:

If you wish to assign the job to a worker now, but have the job scheduled for a future time, you need to also include the planned_start_at as per the example below: