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Document Access

Update Document

Updates properties of an existing document. Supports partial updates via JSON for title, parent, and classification.

Supports moving documents into (but not out of) repositories by providing a repo_-prefixed repository ID as the parent.

patch/v1/documents/{id}

Path parameters

idstring uuid required

ID of the document to update.

Request body

titlestring

New title for the document. Must be non-empty, at most 300 characters, and must not start or end with whitespace.

customTagsstring[]

List of custom tags to assign to the document. Including this field overwrites all existing tags on the document with the provided values. Each tag must be non-empty and must not start or end with whitespace. Omitting this field leaves existing tags unchanged; set to an empty array to clear all tags.

classificationIdstring uuid nullable

ID of the classification to assign to the document. Omitting this field leaves the existing classification unchanged; set to null to remove the classification.

Example request

{
  "title": "My Updated Document",
  "customTags": [
    "in progress"
  ],
  "classificationId": "1cdad938-bf0f-4a0c-a2f8-bf4eb94225ce"
}

Response

OK with Document resource containing information about the updated document.

documentIdstring uuid required

Unique ID of the document

titlestring required

Title of the document

editUrlstring uri required

Link to edit the document

viewUrlstring uri required

Link to view the document

versioninteger required

Most recent version

pageCountinteger required

Number of pages within the document

canEditboolean required

If requesting user can edit the document

createdstring date-time required

Date and time of when the document was created

creatorIdinteger required

ID of user who created and owns the document

lastModifiedstring date-time required

Date and time of when the document was last modified

lastModifiedUserIdinteger required

ID of user who most recently modified the document

customTagsstring[] required

List of any custom tags assigned to the document

product'lucidchart' | 'lucidscale' | 'lucidspark' required

The Lucid Suite product that a document was created in.

statusstring nullable

Current assigned status of the document

classificationstring nullable

Current assigned classification of the document

classificationIdstring uuid nullable

Current assigned classification ID of the document.

trashedstring date-time nullable

If defined, the timestamp when the document was moved to the trash

parentinteger nullable

ID of the parent folder

accountIdinteger nullable required

ID of Lucid account that owns the document

Example response

{
  "documentId": "110808fd-4553-4316-bccf-4f25ff59a532",
  "title": "document title",
  "editUrl": "https://lucid.app/lucidchart/110808fd-4553-4316-bccf-4f25ff59a532/edit",
  "viewUrl": "https://lucid.app/lucidchart/110808fd-4553-4316-bccf-4f25ff59a532/view",
  "version": 101,
  "pageCount": 5,
  "canEdit": false,
  "created": "2019-04-22T13:47:23Z",
  "creatorId": 12345,
  "lastModified": "2020-06-26T16:29:37Z",
  "lastModifiedUserId": 54321,
  "customAttributes": [],
  "customTags": [
    "in progress"
  ],
  "product": "lucidchart",
  "status": "Complete",
  "classification": "Private",
  "trashed": null,
  "parent": null,
  "repository": null,
  "owner": {
    "id": 123456,
    "type": "user",
    "name": "John Doe"
  },
  "accountId": 1234
}