Budget Lines API Example Calls
Get Budget Line Query Options
Here are more examples of how to use the budget line API to query and get the result set you want.
This query will return all budget lines with a budget period name already defined
https://<instance>.coupa.com/api/budget_lines?period[name]=Q3 FY09
This query will return all budget lines for the budget owner with the last name of "Carlton" and that this owner is also part of the approval process with any requisitions affecting his/her budgets.
https://<instance>.coupahost.com/api/budget_lines?owner[lastname]=Carlton&owner_is_approver=true
This query will return all budget lines belonging to the set of accounts named, Chart of Accounts and where the accounting period is open.
https://<instance>.coupahost.com/api/budget_lines?period[account-type][name]=chart+of+accounts&period[is_open]=true
GET Budget Line
In this example, we queried for a single budget line record with an ID of
We did a GET to the URL:
https://<instance url>/api/budget_lines/3
or
https://<instance url>/api/budget_lines?id=3
Here is the response matching the search criteria:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<budget-line>
<id type="integer">577</id>
<created-at type="datetime">2009-05-04T18:00:58-07:00</created-at>
<updated-at type="datetime">2014-04-29T09:55:19-07:00</updated-at>
<notes />
<description>New IT Equipment Purchased for Company</description>
<amount type="decimal">128000.00</amount>
<remaining type="decimal">66883.00</remaining>
<owner-is-approver nil="true" />
<segment-1>HQ</segment-1>
<segment-2>Development</segment-2>
<segment-3>Assets</segment-3>
<segment-4 nil="true" />
<segment-5 nil="true" />
<segment-6 nil="true" />
<segment-7 nil="true" />
<segment-8 nil="true" />
<segment-9 nil="true" />
<segment-10 nil="true" />
<segment-11 nil="true" />
<segment-12 nil="true" />
<segment-13 nil="true" />
<segment-14 nil="true" />
<segment-15 nil="true" />
<segment-16 nil="true" />
<segment-17 nil="true" />
<segment-18 nil="true" />
<segment-19 nil="true" />
<segment-20 nil="true" />
<error-on-overrun type="boolean">true</error-on-overrun>
<period>
<id type="integer">2</id>
<created-at type="datetime">2008-10-28T11:27:45-07:00</created-at>
<updated-at type="datetime">2011-06-07T11:24:05-07:00</updated-at>
<start-date type="datetime">2009-01-01T00:00:00-08:00</start-date>
<end-date type="datetime">2009-03-31T01:00:00-07:00</end-date>
<is-open type="boolean">false</is-open>
<created-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</created-by>
<updated-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</updated-by>
<segment-1 type="boolean">true</segment-1>
<segment-2 type="boolean">true</segment-2>
<segment-3 type="boolean">true</segment-3>
<segment-4 nil="true" />
<segment-5 nil="true" />
<segment-6 nil="true" />
<segment-7 nil="true" />
<segment-8 nil="true" />
<segment-9 nil="true" />
<segment-10 nil="true" />
<segment-11 nil="true" />
<segment-12 nil="true" />
<segment-13 nil="true" />
<segment-14 nil="true" />
<segment-15 nil="true" />
<segment-16 nil="true" />
<segment-17 nil="true" />
<segment-18 nil="true" />
<segment-19 nil="true" />
<segment-20 nil="true" />
<name>Q1 FY09</name>
<account-type>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<created-at type="datetime">2008-10-27T13:10:01-07:00</created-at>
<updated-at type="datetime">2014-03-17T14:59:59-07:00</updated-at>
<name>Ace Corporate</name>
<active type="boolean">true</active>
<currency>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<code>USD</code>
</currency>
<primary-contact>
<id type="integer">14</id>
<created-at type="datetime">2008-10-27T13:10:01-07:00</created-at>
<updated-at type="datetime">2012-01-18T11:01:36-08:00</updated-at>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<name-prefix nil="true" />
<name-suffix nil="true" />
<name-additional nil="true" />
<name-given>Jill</name-given>
<name-family>Harker</name-family>
<name-fullname nil="true" />
<notes nil="true" />
<created-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</created-by>
<updated-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</updated-by>
</primary-contact>
<primary-address>
<id type="integer">17</id>
<created-at type="datetime">2008-10-27T13:10:01-07:00</created-at>
<updated-at type="datetime">2012-01-18T11:01:36-08:00</updated-at>
<name nil="true" />
<street1>28 Nevada Blvd</street1>
<street2 />
<city>Laughlin</city>
<state>NV</state>
<postal-code>94301</postal-code>
<attention nil="true" />
<active type="boolean">true</active>
<business-group-name nil="true" />
<country>
<id type="integer">223</id>
<code>US</code>
<name>United States</name>
</country>
<created-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</created-by>
<updated-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</updated-by>
</primary-address>
<created-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</created-by>
<updated-by>
<id type="integer">69</id>
<login>coupasupport+rohitdemo@coupa.com</login>
<email>coupasupport+rohitdemo@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Integration</firstname>
<lastname>User</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</updated-by>
</account-type>
</period>
<owner>
<id type="integer">73</id>
<login>tri</login>
<email>trishanth.vallurupalli@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number />
<firstname>Trishanth</firstname>
<lastname>Vallurupalli</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</owner>
<currency>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<code>USD</code>
</currency>
<created-by>
<id type="integer">1</id>
<login>coupasupport</login>
<email>upgrade@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Coupa</firstname>
<lastname>Support</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</created-by>
<updated-by>
<id type="integer">69</id>
<login>coupasupport+rohitdemo@coupa.com</login>
<email>coupasupport+rohitdemo@coupa.com</email>
<employee-number nil="true" />
<firstname>Integration</firstname>
<lastname>User</lastname>
<salesforce-id nil="true" />
<mycustom-userfield />
</updated-by>
</budget-line>Budget line create
In this example we are creating a budget line for an existing period and account for an amount of 50000. We are not using any Coupa system ID's for any of the reference objects.
We posted it to the URL: https://<instance>.coupahost.com/api/budget_lines.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<budget_lines>
<segment_1>San_Francisco</segment_1>
<segment_2>Marketing</segment_2>
<segment_3>Office_Supplies</segment_3>
<description>budget for Mary</description>
<period>
<name>Q2 2012</name>
</period>
<amount>50000</amount>
<owner>
<firstname>Mary (Manager)</firstname>
<lastname>Snow</lastname>
<login>msnow</login>
</owner>
</budget_lines>Update Budget lines - full update
In these examples, we are updating different information on the budget line record.
We did a PUT to the URL: https://<instance>.coupahost.com/api/budget_lines/<budget line id>
For example, to update the budget owner for budget line id 616:
URL: https://<instance>.coupahost.com/api/budget_lines/616
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<budget_lines>
<notes>Carlton is the budget owner</notes>
<description>this is for budget period Q2 - 2010</description>
<owner>
<login>mcarlton</login>
</owner>
</budget_lines>Update Budget lines - simple update
In these examples, we are updating a single attribute on the budget line record.
We did a PUT to the URL: https://<instance url>/api/budget_lines/<budget line id>
For example, to update the amount allocated to this budget line to 7500 with budget line id 616
URL: https://<instance url>/api/budget_lines/616
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<budget_lines>
<amount>7500</amount>
</budget_lines>