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Documents

Create partial document

Creates a partial document, sending only some of the fields.

You can use this request to create documents in any given data entity. Because of this, you are not restricted to using the fields exemplified below in your requests. But you should be aware of the fields allowed or required for each document you wish to update.

Permissions

Any user or API key must have at least one of the appropriate License Manager resources to be able to successfully run this request. Otherwise they will receive a status code 403 error. These are the applicable resources for this endpoint:

ProductCategoryResource
Dynamic StorageDynamic storage generic resourcesInsert or update document (not remove)
Dynamic StorageDynamic storage generic resourcesFull access to all documents
Dynamic StorageDynamic storage generic resourcesMaster Data administrator

There are no applicable predefined roles for this resource list. You must create a custom role and add at least one of the resources above in order to use this endpoint.To learn more about machine authentication at VTEX, see Authentication overview.

❗ To prevent integrations from having excessive permissions, consider the best practices for managing API keys when assigning License Manager roles to integrations.

patch/api/dataentities/{acronym}/documents

Path parameters

acronymstring required
Example:SP

Two-letter string that identifies the data entity.

Headers

Content-Typestring required

Type of the content being sent.

Acceptstring required

HTTP Client Negotiation Accept Header. Indicates the types of responses the client can understand.

Request body

idstring

Unique identifier of the document to be created.

{fieldName}string

Field(s) to be filled in and its respective value(s).

Example request

{
  "id": "4e4c55ac-e491-11e6-94f4-0ac138d2d42e",
  "{fieldName}": "{fieldValue}"
}

Response

Created

idstring

ID of the document that was created, with data entity prefix.

hrefstring

Document reference URL.

documentIdstring

Unique identifier of the document.