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/update: Update Group

  • URL:https://[root]/community/groups/[groupID]/update(POST only)

Example usage

URL for Update Group

https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/community/groups/2ecb37a8c8fb4051af9c086c25503bb0/update
description=The street maps group provides street maps for the city of Redlands.
A new map showing bike lanes from downtown to Esri has been added. 
tags=bike lanes

Description

The Update Group operation (POST only) modifies properties such as the group title, tags, description, sort field and order, and member sharing capabilities. This operation is available only to the group administrators or to the administrator of the organization if the user is a member.

Only the properties that are to be updated must be specified in the request. Properties that are not specified will not be affected.

The group ID cannot be modified.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails
[Common Parameter]

For a complete listing, see Common parameters.

clearEmptyFields

Tells the service to clear any fields that are passed in empty (for example, snippet=&description=).

[Updated Group Parameters]

For a complete listing of the available Update Group parameters, see the Group parameters section in Common parameters.

Response properties

PropertyDetails
success

Indicates if the operation was successful.

groupId

The ID of the updated group.

JSON Response syntax


            {
  "success": true | false,
  "groupId": "<group id>"
}

JSON Response example


            {
  "success": true,
  "groupId": "2ecb37a8c8fb4051af9c086c25503bb0"
}