topic Rest-API difficulty updating formProperties in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197513#M150643 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm having difficultly performing a simple property update via the REST-API.&nbsp; I've successfully worked out creating and listing info from Activiti, but I just can't seem to set a property.&nbsp; The json converted property looks to be properly formed, but I still keep getting the error "resulted in 400 (Bad Request)" on execute.&nbsp; The user’s guide suggests that this is likely happening because of a difference in property scope, but a simple query of all formProperties on this process shows them all as 'local', just as I'm putting into my json.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is there any chance of somebody setting me straight?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Activiti version: 5.15.1</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sample code.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>String url = </SPAN><A href="http://myServer/activiti-rest/service/runtime/process-instances/25762/variables" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://myServer/activiti-rest/service/runtime/process-instances/25762/variables</A><BR /><SPAN>RestTemplate restTemplate = getRestTemplate();&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;–Spring restTemplate</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>restTemplate.put(url, request);&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;– Spring HttpEntity for request</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Request object content before calling 'put' is….</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;{"name":"cmoApproved","type":"string","value":"true","scope":"local"},{Content-Type=[application/json]}&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Rest should be making this simple for me as there are only a few elements to deal with.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1.) URL&nbsp; &lt;– matches users guide…see above</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2.) json formatted variable array&nbsp; &lt;– matches user guide</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>3.) request method (put, post, get)&nbsp; &lt;– performing put to update variable</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Could my request object be missing something?&nbsp; Any help would be greatly appreciated!</SPAN><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:44:11 GMT jyerger 2014-08-18T19:44:11Z Rest-API difficulty updating formProperties https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197513#M150643 I'm having difficultly performing a simple property update via the REST-API.&nbsp; I've successfully worked out creating and listing info from Activiti, but I just can't seem to set a property.&nbsp; The json converted property looks to be properly formed, but I still keep getting the error "resulted in 400 ( Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:44:11 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197513#M150643 jyerger 2014-08-18T19:44:11Z Re: Rest-API difficulty updating formProperties https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197514#M150644 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Looking at the user guide, is seems a json array is passed. Did you try that?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:08:35 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197514#M150644 jbarrez 2014-08-19T11:08:35Z Re: Rest-API difficulty updating formProperties https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197515#M150645 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Worked like a charm.&nbsp; Don't I feel foolish.&nbsp; Too much time spent in a chair yesterday I guess. Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:19:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197515#M150645 jyerger 2014-08-19T13:19:56Z Re: Rest-API difficulty updating formProperties https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197516#M150646 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No problem, glad it worked <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:09:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/rest-api-difficulty-updating-formproperties/m-p/197516#M150646 jbarrez 2014-08-20T15:09:40Z