diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v0/guidances_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v0/guidances_controller.rb
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index 2803ea6..0000000
--- a/app/controllers/api/v0/guidances_controller.rb
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-module Api
-  module V0
-    class GuidancesController < Api::V0::BaseController
-      before_action :authenticate
-
-      swagger_controller :guidances, 'Guidances'
-
-      swagger_api :show do
-        summary 'Returns a single guidance item'
-        notes   'Notes...'
-        param :path, :id, :integer, :required, "Guidance Id"
-        param :header, 'Authentication-Token', :string, :required, 'Authentication-Token'
-        response :ok, "success", :Guidance
-        response :unauthorized
-        response :not_found
-      end
-
-      # TODO: impliment auth on show/index
-      # for both, first validate that the user has the permission to use this api
-      # then for show, display iff they have permissions for that resource
-      # for index, compile the list of all groups they have permissions to view, then return
-
-      def show
-        # ensure use has auth for guidances api
-        if has_auth("guidance")
-          if Guidance.can_view?(@user, params[:id])
-            respond_with get_resource
-          else
-            render json: I18n.t("api.bad_resource"), status: 401
-          end
-        else
-          render I18n.t("api.no_auth_for_endpoint"), status: 401
-        end
-      end
-
-      swagger_api :index do
-        summary 'Returns a list of all viewable guidances'
-        notes   'Notes...'
-        param :header, 'Authentication-Token', :string, :required, 'Authentication-Token'
-        response :unauthorized
-      end
-
-      def index
-        if has_auth("guidance")
-          @all_viewable_guidances = Guidance.all_viewable(@user)
-          respond_with @all_viewable_guidances
-        else
-          render json I18n.t("api.no_auth_for_endpoint"), status: 401
-        end
-      end
-
-
-      private
-        def query_params
-          params.permit(:id)
-        end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v0/guidances/index.json.jbuilder
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--- a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/index.json.jbuilder
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-# builds a json response to api querry for all guidances
-
-json.prettify!
-
-json.guidance @all_viewable_guidances do |guidance|
-  json.id     guidance.id
-  json.text   guidance.text
-  json.updated_at   guidance.updated_at
-
-  # each guidance may be associated with many guidance groups
-  @guidance_groups = guidance.guidance_groups
-  json.guidance_groups @guidance_groups do |guidance_group|
-    json.name       guidance_group.name
-    json.id         guidance_group.id
-
-    # for each template associated with the guidance group, list the template name
-    @templates = guidance_group.dmptemplates
-    # if the template is empty, instead use all avalable templates
-    if @templates.empty?
-      @templates = Dmptemplate.all
-    end
-    json.templates @templates do |template|
-      json.title    template.title
-    end
-    json.optional   guidance_group.optional_subset
-    json.updated    guidance_group.updated_at
-  end
-
-end
diff --git a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/show.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v0/guidances/show.json.jbuilder
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index be04df7..0000000
--- a/app/views/api/v0/guidances/show.json.jbuilder
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-# builds a json response to api querry for a specific guidance
-
-json.prettify!
-
-json.guidance do
-  json.id     @guidance.id
-  json.text   @guidance.text
-  json.updated_at   @guidance.updated_at
-
-  # each guidance may be associated with many guidance groups
-  @guidance_groups = @guidance.guidance_groups
-  unless @guidance_groups.empty?
-    json.guidance_groups @guidance_groups do |guidance_group|
-      json.name       guidance_group.name
-      json.id         guidance_group.id
-
-      # for each template associated with the guidance group, list the template name
-      @templates = guidance_group.dmptemplates
-      # if the template is empty, instead use all avalable templates
-      if @templates.empty?
-        @templates = Dmptemplate.all
-      end
-      json.templates @templates do |template|
-        json.title    template.title
-      end
-      json.optional   guidance_group.optional_subset
-      json.updated    guidance_group.updated_at
-    end
-  end
-end
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