Updating Custom fields added to a Project - API's

Mario Noronha

• October 25, 2018 06:53

 Hello Everyone

I am looking at updating a custom field using the POST method of Projects by passing in the specific Project ID.

I am able to update other system defined fields like "Name", I am trying to update the CustomField but this is not updating the data.  

e.g. of the array that i am passing to update the Fields are

array("CustomeFieldValue:CustomField2;CustomeFieldValue"=>"Mario summary","Name"=>"Marios Test Project","Id"=>"e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395");

The first parameter is the CustomField2 i am trying to update. I have tried using the following options as well

CustomField2

CustomFieldValue:CustomeField2

 

The field "Name" does get updated

I have also added this as a separate post just so that it is open to community with the appropriate Title.

 

Thanks

Mario

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  Alex Roman

  • October 26, 2018 00:17

  Hi Mario,

   

  I'm not sure if this is the issue but I see an e after Custom (CustomeFieldValue should be CustomFieldValue)

  array("CustomeFieldValue:CustomField2;CustomeFieldValue"=>"Mario summary","Name"=>"Marios Test Project","Id"=>"e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395");

  it should be 

  array("CustomeFieldValue:CustomField2;CustomFieldValue"=>"Mario summary","Name"=>"Marios Test Project","Id"=>"e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395");

  Not sure if that is the cause but I did notice that would cause issue.

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  Mario Noronha

  • October 26, 2018 05:09

  Hey Alex

  The extra e was a typo while i was adding this issue. The code is without the "e"

  $data_array =  array("CustomFieldValue:CustomField2;CustomFieldValue"=>"mario summary","Name"=>"mario","Id"=>"e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395");

  I do not receive any error it returns the following success string

  array(6) { ["SavedId"]=> string(36) "e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395" ["SavedCount"]=> int(1) ["Success"]=> bool(true) ["SaveIdAlternate"]=> NULL ["Errors"]=> array(0) { } ["HasErrors"]=> bool(false) }

   

  but the data is not updating in the customfield2 text box. Is there a different way i need to reference the customfield2 for saving?

   

  Thanks

  Mario

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  Fernando Montes

  • October 26, 2018 20:36

  Hello,

  I have never use the API using an array like. The way I normally do it is using our c# client or passing in json. The json i would pass for this would be 

  {
  "Id": "e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395",
  "Name": "Marios Test Project",
  "CustomFieldValue": {
  "CustomField2": "Mario summary"
  }

  }

   

  The CustomField2 is a string within the object of CustomFieldValue within a project. So you will have to show that accordingly. I am not sure how you would do that in an array as you are doing. 

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  Mario Noronha

  • October 29, 2018 05:05

  Thanks Fernando,

   

  This worked for me.. Just pasting the webservice call here as it could be helpful for someone trying to update the data via services via PHP

  $make_call = callAPI('POST', 'https://prothoughts-demo.projectinsight.net/api/project/', '{"Id": "e4035f06-a5d2-4339-981c-1f089e653395","Name": "Marios Test Project","CustomFieldValue": {"CustomField2": "Mario summary 123"}}');
  $response = json_decode($make_call, true);

  echo var_dump($response);

   

  Thanks

  Mario

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