Set username using School API

Justin Stein

Currently, our workflow for setting up new users calls for creating their user in Core first, and then writing their username and main email address back to the user after the fact. It would be great if I could add this step to my new user script to prevent manual work from occurring during the step where we set their username and main email. I know that I can use the PATCH single user endpoint to set the email, but is there a way for me to set the username in a similar fashion?

Evan York

Hi Justin, unfortunately this is not possible via our School API today. I would encourage you to suggest this enhancement via our Ideas page (https://community.blackbaud.com/developer/ideas) under APIs-->School API. Perhaps our data import options to update users in bulk might be useful as well: https://webfiles.blackbaud.com/files/support/helpfiles/education/k12/full-help/content/bb-core-data-import-process.html

Brian Gray

Justin -


As Evan suggested, I use Core > System tools > Data import to set user names.


We have used Blackbaud ID for employees and students for several years. We are now rolling it out to parents. In the User Management category, there are separate import types for Username and BBID Username.


I have a program that reads the initial data in the parent records created by a API data push from our third-party admission system. Theat program generates several import data files to clean up the data formatting and to run sanity checks on the information.