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      • Loading the Program
      • Create a Multisig
      • Transactions
        • Create a Transaction
        • Adding Instructions
        • Activating a Transaction
        • Approve / Reject a Transaction
        • Executing
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Create a Transaction

To create a transaction for the multisig to act upon first derive a PDA for the transaction. The transaction PDA is used to reference the account created, and will store some basic information about the transaction.

In addition to the PDA, creating a transaction also requires and authority index.

A complete example to create a new Transaction with the expected transactionIndex

// fetch the multisig
const multisigAccount = await squadsProgram.account.ms.fetch(multisig);

// get the next expected transactionIndex
const transactionIndex = new anchor.BN(multisigAccount.transactionIndex + 1);

// get the transaction PDA
const transaction = await anchor.web3.PublicKey.findProgramAddress(
    anchor.utils.bytes.utf8.encode("squad"),
    multisig.toBuffer(),
    transactionIndex.toBuffer("le", 4), // or .toArrayLike(Buffer, "le", 4) 
    anchor.utils.bytes.utf8.encode("transaction")
);

// get the public key of the payer/creator
const creator = wallet.publicKey;

await program.methods.createTransaction(1) //using authorityIndex of 1
   .accounts({
       multisig,    // the multisig PDA
       transaction, // the transaction PDA
       creator // the creator/payer of the transaction acccount
    })
    .rpc();

After being created, the transaction will remain in a Draft status, until it is activated by the member key that created it.

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Refer to the for more information about deriving the transaction PDA and for information about how authorities function within Squads.

Transaction PDA section
the Authority section