Update a Group - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

Updating the metadata (i.e. properties) for a group in the repository.

API Explorer URL: http://localhost:8080/api-explorer/#!/groups/updateGroup

See also:

• Create a Group
• Add People and Groups to a Group

To update a group you must have admin rights. What this means is that the user that is making the ReST call must be a member of the ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS group.

It’s possible to update the group’s displayName. Use the following PUT call: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1//groups/{id}

The identifier for the group to be updated is specified with the {id} parameter.

The body for a group update call looks like this:

{
    "displayName": "string"
}

To update the display name for a group with the id engineering make the following call:

$ curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' -d '{ "displayName": "Engineering UPDATED" }' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/groups/GROUP_engineering' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   126    0    86  100    40   1755    816 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2571
{
  "entry": {
    "isRoot": true,
    "displayName": "Engineering UPDATED",
    "id": "GROUP_engineering"
  }
}

Note that you have to prefix the group id with GROUP_.