Update a data attribute

Example Request & Response

$ curl https://api.intercom.io/data_attributes/163728 \\-X PUT \\-H 'Authorization:Bearer <Your access token>' \\-H 'Accept: application/json' \\-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d{  \"description\": \"You are either great or bad\",  \"options\": [    {\"value\": \"great\"},    {\"value\": \"bad\"}  ]}

Example Errors

HTTP/1.1 404 NOT FOUND{  "type": "error.list",  "request_id": "0006klvnje6ffng7ot80",  "errors": [    {      "code": "field_not_found",      "message": "We couldn't find that data attribute to update"    }  ]}
HTTP/1.1 422 UNPROCESSIBLE ENTITY{  "type": "error.list",  "request_id": "0006klvnje6ffng7ot80",  "errors": [    {      "code": "data_invalid",      "message": "The Data Attribute you are trying to archive has a dependant object"    }  ]}
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST{  "type": "error.list",  "request_id": "0000rnvpf3m1f3nf4k40",  "errors": [    {      "code": "parameter_invalid",      "message": "You must have at least two options on a list type data attribute"    }  ]}

You can update data attribute.

Request Body Parameters

ArgumentTypeDescription
descriptionString(Optional) The readable description you see in the UI for the attribute.
optionsList(Optional) To change to or update list attributes. Provide a set of hashes with value as the key of the options you want to make.data_type must be string.
archivedBoolean(Optional) Whether the attribute is to be archived or not.
messenger_writableBoolean(Optional). When set to false, the attribute will not be writable by the Messenger. Default value is true.
Updating the data type is not possible

It is currently a dangerous action to execute changing a data attribute's type via the API. You will need to update the type via the UI instead.

Response

This will return a Data Attribute Model showing the details of your updated attribute.