1.3 Update a Custom Field on a User

Revised: 24 April 2017

Overview

See Modify a User, but use the custom field.

Custom field information can be found on the Coupa Setup > Company SetupCustom Fields page, where you can find the technical prompt/field name that you need to use for API and CSV updates. For CSV Import, Prompt field value is used as column header and for API, field-names are used in the payload.

Sample API

PUT

 

https://<instance_url>/api/users/277

Payload

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user><custom-fields>
  <test_cust_field>TEST_CUST_FIELD</test_cust_field>
</custom-fields></user>

Sample CSV

For a sample file, see update_user_custom_field.csv.