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 Concept: Access Rules (dimension access control).

This method does not function following user synchronization from Workday. It only allows assigning permission sets 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"
             alternateEmail="abc@greenco.com"
             samlFedId="1234"
             permissionSetId="1"
             ownedLevels="2,3,7,11"
             timeZone="America/Mexico_City"
                  />
      </users>
</call>

credentials element
Tag Name		credentials
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.
Attributes of the Element
Attribute Name	Required?	Value	Example
login	Y	The login name of the user invoking the API method. This user must have the required permissions to invoke the method	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
(none)

user element
Tag Name		user
Description		Specifies a user or users to update.
Attributes of the Element
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)	B9ADBCB81AA2F9BAE040307F02092C2E
email	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
position Available in API v39+	N	Position for user.	"CEO"
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
alternateEmail Available in API v27	N	The alternate email address for this user. We automatically select this option and populate with the email ID of the user in the User Details section.	abc@greenco.com
samlFedId Available in API v27	N	The SAML federation ID for this user.	1234, user@company.com
permissionSetId Available in API v25+	N	The internal system ID of the permission set assigned to this user.	3
roleId Available in API v25 and earlier Not available in API v25+	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
homepage Available in API v39+	N	Homepage for user.	"Welcome"
timeZone	N	The time zone of the user.	US/Pacific
country Available in API v39+	N	Country code for user (alpha-2 code).	"US"
usState Available in API v39+	N	State code for user (country has to be US).	"CA"
perspective Available in API v39+	N	Perspective ID for user.	"111"
dashboard Available in API v39+	N	Dashboard ID for user - requires perspective ID to set dashboard ID, if perspective ID is specified and dashboard ID is not then dashboard ID is set to null.	"222"
netsuiteLogin Available in API v39+	N	Netsuite login.	"abc@netsuite.com"
salesforceLogin Available in API v39+	N	Salesforce login.	"abc@salesforce.com"
Contents of the Element
(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
Tag Name		response
Attributes of the Element
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
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
Tag Name		result
Description		Container for one or more status elements.
Attributes of the Element
Attribute Name	Required?	Value	Example
(none)
Contents of the Element
One or more created_user or updated_user status elements depending on whether a createUser or updateUser call was made, respectively.

updated_users element
Tag Name		updated_users
Description		Represents a message sent from the system back to the caller.
Attributes of the Element
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.	usernewuser@company.com was updated successfully.
Contents of the Element
One subscriptions element.