PATCH Constituent Custom Fields?

Steven Cinquegrana:

Hi Filipp,


If you mean you want to edit an existing Constituent Custom Field - as in one on a Constituent, not the Custom Field itself - then I believe you can use the PATCH Constituent Custom Field endpoint to do so. However, as you say, you're limited in what you can do.


For example, you can't change the Type of the field from, say, Date to Text or Boolean to Number.


So if you had a Custom Field such as


Id: 2345

Parent Id: 280

Category: Current Board Member

Type: Boolean
Value: True

Date: 2020-01-01 00:00:00

Comment: Previously a member of XYZ's board.

Date Added: 2020-01-01T13:14:15
Date Modified: 2020-01-01T13:14:15


then only the fields in blue can be changed (and the field in orange is updated automatically).


In your question you mention changing particular Custom Fields such as Religion and HubSpot ID but I expect that these are probably categories that have been set up in your own environment. If you wanted to change these for a particular Constituent - eg change Religion to Divine Affiliation - you would either have to delete Religion and add Divine Affiliation if it already exists as a category, or, if you were looking to replace the Religion category with Divine Affiliation globally, you would need to rename the Custom Field Category from "Religion" to "Divine Affiliation" which would change this on all records with a Religion Custom Field. (You would restricted on what else could be changed.)


I hope that helps.

Steve Cinquegrana | CEO and Principal Developer | Protégé Solutions