updateUser
Category |
Metadata modification |
Description |
Update a user(s). If successful, the API will return a message for the user that has just been updated. |
Permissions Required To Invoke |
User Permission |
Parameters Required On Request |
Credentials |
This method's request contains a credentials tag to identify and authorize the calling user. User must have "User Permission" permission to update the user(s).
This method does not control or update a user's access rules (dimension access control).
This method does not function following user synchronization from Workday. It only allows assigning roles and level access before user synchronization occurs.
Request Format
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <call method="updateUser" callerName="a string that identifies your client application"> <credentials login="sampleuser@company.com" password="my_pwd" /> <users> <user guid="B9ADBCB81AA2F9BAE040307F02092C2E" email="updateMail@company.com" name="update name" password="new Password" roleId="1" ownedLevels="2,3,7,11" timeZone="America/Mexico_City" /> </users> </call>
credentials element |
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Tag Name |
credentials |
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Description |
All API calls must contain a single credentials element to identify the user invoking the API. The API call is then performed as this user (any audit trail or history of actions in the system will show that this user performed the action), and therefore the user must have the required permissions to perform the action in order for the API call to succeed. |
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Attributes of the Element |
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Attribute Name |
Required? |
Value |
Example |
login |
Y |
The login name of the user invoking the API method. This user must have a role containing the permissions required for the method being invoked. |
sampleuser@company.com |
password |
Y |
The password of the user invoking the API method. |
my_password |
locale |
N |
Specify the locale to be used to interpret incoming numbers and dates, and to format outgoing numbers and dates (using the proper thousands separator, month names, and date formatting). The locale is also used to specify the language in which any system messages in the response should appear. If not specified, en_US (American English) is used. |
fr_FR |
instanceCode |
N |
If the user specified in the credentials has access to more than one instance of Adaptive Planning, this attribute can be used to specify that the user is intending to access an instance other than their default instance. If not specified, the user's default instance will be used. To determine the available instance codes, use the exportInstances API. |
MYINSTANCE1 |
Contents of the Element |
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(none) |
user element |
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Tag Name |
user |
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Description |
Specifies a user or users to update. |
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Attributes of the Element |
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Attribute Name |
Required? |
Value |
Example |
guid |
Y |
A globally-unique identifier for the user. This identifier will never change for this user, even if their login or name changes in the future. (The guid is also covered in the exportUsers API) |
B9ADB- |
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N |
The email address for this user. Uniqueness is required. The only allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, - and . This email address indicates the username. |
newUser@company.com |
name |
N |
The name of this user. |
Melvin Morsmere |
password |
N |
The password of this user. If you are updating a user who is in a multi-instance environment you can only specify password changes in their default instance. |
newpassword |
roleId |
N |
The internal system ID of the role assigned to this user. (The roleId attribute is also covered in the exportRoles API.) |
3 |
ownedLevels |
N |
The internal system ID for the levels separated by comma. (The ownedLevels attribute is also covered in the exportLevels API.) |
5,10,13 |
timeZone |
N |
The time zone of the user. |
US/Pacific |
Contents of the Element |
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(none) |
Response Format
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <response success="true"> <output> <result> <updated_users> <user success="true" message="user newUser@company.com was updated successfully."/> </updated_users> </result> </output> </response>
response element |
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Tag Name |
response |
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Attributes of the Element |
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Attribute Name |
Required? |
Value |
Example |
success |
Y |
Either true or false, indicating whether the API call was successful or not. Even successful calls may contain warning messages in their response. |
true |
Contents of the Element |
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A single result element with created_user or updated_user status elements depending on whether a createUser or updateUser call was made, respectively. |
result element |
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Tag Name |
result |
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Description |
Container for one or more status elements. |
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Attributes of the Element |
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Attribute Name |
Required? |
Value |
Example |
(none) |
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Contents of the Element |
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One or more created_user or updated_user status elements depending on whether a createUser or updateUser call was made, respectively. |
updated_users element |
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Tag Name |
updated_users |
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Description |
Represents a message sent from the system back to the caller. |
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Attributes of the Element |
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Attribute Name |
Required? |
Value |
Example |
user success |
Y |
The status returned by the call. Can be true or false. |
true |
message |
Y |
The status message. |
user newuser@company.com |
Contents of the Element |
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One subscriptions element. |