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Documents

Update partial document

This request allows you to partially update a document corresponding to a given data entity. For example, you can update some fields of a customer profile or address.

ℹ️ You can use this request to update documents for 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/{dataEntityName}/documents/{id}

Path parameters

dataEntityNamestring required
Example:Newsletter

Name of the data entity.

idstring required
Example:b818cbda-e489-11e6-94f4-0ac138d2d42e

ID of the Document.

Query parameters

_wherestring
Example:firstName is not null

Defines a condition the document must comply with. When referring to fields, you can use a nested field up to the first level (e.g. wishlistProduct.productName).

_schemastring
Example:schema

Name of the schema that the document complies with. This field is required when using _where or _fields query parameters.

Headers

Acceptstring required
Example:application/json

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

Request body

DocumentRequest required

This can be any pure JSON document. Add new Key-Value pairs to test.

Response

No Content