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# Lab - Placements

Plan: Stencil Developer

Lesson 20 of 23 · 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 ‘Widgets and Page Builder’ folder in the ‘Widgets API Labs’ collection in the ‘Collections’ pane on the left side of the Postman window
2. **Click** the 'Create Placement' post request
3. **Select** the 'Body' tab in the main content window in Postman
4. **Confirm** the content in the 'Body' tab is the following:

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

5. **Confirm** that the `widget_uuid` environment variable contains the Widget UUID from the previous lab. The request fills it in automatically
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 widget, with its heading, image, and text.**