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# Lab - Placements

Plan: Stencil Developer

Lesson 15 of 22 · 15 min

**In this lab you will**

* Place a Widget using Postman

**Prerequisites**

* BigCommerce sandbox store
* API credentials for the store
* Postman installed
* Widgets API collection

## Place a Widget

Place a widget using postman

1. **Navigate** to the ‘Placements> Create' directory in the ‘V3 Widgets API' collection in the ‘Collections' pane on the left side of the Postman window
2. **Click** the 'Create' post request
3. **Select** the 'Body' tab in the main content window in Postman
4. **Update** the content in the 'Body' tab to the following:

```json showLineNumbers={false}
{
  "template_file": "pages/home",
  "entity_id": "",
  "region":"home-top",
  "sort_order": 1,
  "widget_uuid": "yourWidgetUUIDhere",
  "status": "active"
}
```

5. **Paste** in the UUID copied from the previous lab
6. **Click** the 'Send' button at the top right of the Postman window

> **Info**
>
> **Open your store's homepage, and you should now see your slider.**