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An update request is a JSON object to create, update or delete a person.

Table of Contents

Deleting a person

The payload’s properties are:

action

Value: Delete

string, Mandatory

cid

The company ID of the person. You need to specify this value.

int, Mandatory

pid, login, email

Use any of these three properties to uniquely identify the person to delete. The system will select in this order of priority: pid, then login, then email.

pid: The unique person ID. An integer.
login: The login of the person. This only works if the person actually was assigned a login in the first place.
email: The email of the person. Please note that Wordbee does not enforce unique emails!

Examples:

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{ "pid": 1000 } or { "login": "john.hauser" } or { "email": "john@hauser.me" }

int?, string?, string?

Mandatory

data

An optional free-text information. It will be returned with the results for your convenience.

string, Optional

Example:

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{ "action": "Delete", "pid": 677, "cid": 537, "data": "just a test" }

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Creating a person

The JSON payload’s properties are:

action

Either one of

Value:

Create: To create a new person.
Update: To update an existing person.
Delete: To delete an existing person.
ChangeOrCreate: To update the person if it exists, or otherwise to create a new person.
Skip: Disregard this request. With this option, no other property is mandatory.

string, Mandatory

cid

Company ID. This property is mandatory. You do indeed need to find out the company to which the person is attached or shall be attached.

By the way, it is not possible to change the company ID of an existing person. Once a person is attached to a company, this attachment is forever!

int, Mandatory

pid

The unique ID of the person. When deleting or updating a person you need to provide any of the 3 possible identifiers: Id, Login, Email.

int?, Optional

login

The login assigned to the person. When deleting or updating a person you need to provide any of the 3 possible identifiers: Id, Login, Email.

The login is not mandatory and a person without a login is perfectly valid in Wordbee Translator.

string, Optional

email

The email. When creating a new person you must specify the email.

string, Optional

Create

string, Mandatory

cid

The company ID of the person. You need to specify this value.

int, Mandatory

email

The mandatory email.

string, Mandatory

login

An optional login. Only specify if you want this user to be able to login. Note that no password will be assigned at this stage.

string?, Optional

fname

First name.

string, Mandatory

lname

Last name.

string, Mandatory

title

Optional title of person, such as “Dr.”, “Mrs.” etc.

string?, Optional

role

Optional role of the person, such as “Manager”.

string?, Optional

code

Optional name abbreviation.

If not specified, the system automatically picks the initial letters of first and last name. “John Good” => “JG”

string?, Optional

phone

Optional phone number.

string?, Optional

phoneMobile

Optional mobile phone number.

string?, Optional

comments

Optional internal comments.

string?, Optional

timezone

Optional time zone. If not specified then the person inherits the time zone of the company to which he/she is attached (recommended).

To enumerate available time zones see: settings/timezones/codes

string?, Optional

cfs

Optional person-level custom fields. It contains a collection of custom fields. Example:

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"cfs": [ { "id": 10, "v": "myvalue" }, { "t": "My field", "v": "myvalue" } ]

You can reference custom fields by their numeric ID (see id) or their title (see t). The example above shows both approaches.

Configure custom fields online at Settings > Custom fields > Persons (Creating and updating Custom Fields )
Enumerate custom fields using the API: Custom field configuration

object?, Optional

active

Optional boolean. If you want the person to be able to login, you should:

Set active to true.
Set a login.
Optionally, set a profile.

bool?, Optional

profile

Optional integer. Use to assign a specific user profile.

If the new person has a login and is active, it is recommended to explicitly assign a user profile. If you do not do so then the system will automatically assign a user profile on your behalf. This will typically be the first profile in alphabetical order.

See User profiles to enumerate available profiles.

int?, Optional

data

An optional free-text information. It will be returned with the results for your convenience.

string?, Optional

Creating a person without a login and the absolutely minimal required information:

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{ "action": "Create", "cid": 537, "email": "john@john.com", "fname": "John", "lname": "Hendo" }

Creating a person with a login and a few more properties:

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{
    "action": "Create",
    "cid": 537,
    "login": "john.hendo",
    "email": "john@john.com",
    "fname": "John",
    "lname": "Hendo",
    "active": true,
    "profile": 22,
    "phone": "8818777272",
    "title": "CEO",
    "comments": "This is our CEO",
    "cfs": [ { "t": "Position", "v": "At the top" } ]
}

Changing a person

The JSON properties are:

action

Value: Change

string, Mandatory

cid

The company ID of the person. You need to specify this value.

int, Mandatory

pid, login, email

Use any of these three properties to uniquely identify the person to delete. The system will select in this order of priority: pid, then login, then email.

pid: The unique person ID. An integer.
login: The login of the person. This only works if the person actually was assigned a login in the first place.
email: The email of the person. Please note that Wordbee does not enforce unique emails!

Examples:

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{ "pid": 1000 } or { "login": "john.hauser" } or { "email": "john@hauser.me" }

Note: If you would want to use a person custom field as the unique identifier then set the cfid field when updating, see persons/io/updates (POST) . Although we recommend to use the login or email as unique identifiers, nothing beats the flexibility of Wordbee!

int?, string?, string?

Mandatory

profile

To assign or change a user profile ID. This is only required for users that are assigned a login.

int?, Optional

profileKeepExisting

If true then the user profile ID of an existing person will not be modified.

This can be useful if the profile was changed inside Wordbee Translator, and an update request shall not tamper with such a change.

bool?, Optional

*

Specify the properties that you want to change. These are those document further above for creating persons.

Optional

data

An optional free-text information. It will be returned with the results for your convenience.

string?, Optional

Updating the comments of a person. We select the person by its unique ID.

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{ "action": "Change", "cid": 537, "pid": 3454, "comments": "No more comments" }

Updating various properties. We select the person by its email.

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{
    "action": "Change",
    "cid": 537,
    "email": "andre@lima.com",
    
    "login": "andre.lima",
    "fname": "Andre",
    "lname": "Lima",
    "active": true,
    "profile": 22,
    "phone": "8818777272",
    "title": "CEO",
    "comments": "This is our CEO",
    "cfs": [ { "t": "Position", "v": "At the top" } ]}

If the person was not changed (values are the same) then the system will tell you so! This can happen, for example, if you submit the same request twice.

Changing or Creating a person

This is a very useful mode:

If the person exists then the person will be updated from your request.
If the person does not yet exist then it will be created.

This mode thus allows to submit updates

The big advantage over Create and Change is: You do not need to verify in advance if a person exists or not.

The JSON properties are:

action	Value: ChangeOrCreate	string, Mandatory
cid	The company ID of the person. You need to specify this value.	int, Mandatory
pid, login, email	Specify any one of the three identifiers below: pid: Only specify if you have the person’s unique ID on records. login: To find back a person by login or create a person with this login email: To find back a person by email or create a person with this email. If the system cannot find back the person with the identifiers above, it will proceed with the creation of a new person. Note: If you would want to use a person custom field as the unique identifier then set the cfid field when updating, see persons/io/updates (POST) . Although we recommend to use the login or email as unique identifiers, nothing beats the flexibility of Wordbee!	int?, string?, string? Mandatory
profile	To assign or change a user profile ID. This is only required for users that are assigned a login.	int?, Optional
profileKeepExisting	If true then the user profile ID of an existing person will not be modified. This can be useful if the profile was changed inside Wordbee Translator, and an update request shall not tamper with such a change.	bool?, Optional
*	Specify the other properties. Important: All properties that are mandatory when creating persons must be specified.	Some mandatory, Some optional
data	An optional free-text information. It will be returned with the results for your convenience.	string?, Optional

Update person or create if it does not yet exist:

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{
    "action": "ChangeOrCreate",
    "cid": 537,
    "email": "andre@lima.com",
    
    "login": "andre.lima",
    "fname": "Andre",
    "lname": "Lima",
    "active": true,
    "profile": 22,
    "phone": "8818777272",
    "title": "CEO",
    "comments": "This is our CEO",
    "cfs": [ { "t": "Position", "v": "At the top" } ]}

Skip person

This mode tells the system to simply disregard the request.

action	Value: Skip	string, Mandatory
data	The company ID of the person. You need to specify this value.	int, Mandatory
data	An optional free-text information. It will be returned with the results for your convenience.	string?, Optional

Example:

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{ "action": "Skip", "fname": "Andre", "lname": "Lima", "data": "disregard this record!" }

Tips & Tricks

Synchronizing from external databases

When you have an external database of persons and you want to synchronize changes into Wordbee, you may consider the following recommendations:

Prefer these two actions: “ChangeOrCreate” and “Delete”.
Use the “email” or “login” as the identifier if you do not want to store back the Wordbee person IDs in your systems.
If you want to create persons with a “login” it is strongly recommended that you explicitly assign the user profile (property profile). Although the system will auto-assign a default profile, it may not be the profile you want giving either too many or too little access rights.

What password when creating new person or activating account?

When you create a new person with a login and an active account, or, if you activate an existing person then the question arises: What is the password?

In fact, the system will NOT assign any password:

Instruct users to go to the login page and click the “Forgot my password” link. Then the user will receive an email with a link to set a password.

In the case you use SSO, the authentication should work from your end (SSO provider) and does not require any further steps.

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Key

Deleting a person

Creating a person

Changing a person

Changing or Creating a person

Skip person

Tips & Tricks

Synchronizing from external databases

What password when creating new person or activating account?