Content Groups API (/business_groups)
Create content groups and assign to users to restrict access to other objects in Coupa.
Create content groups and assign to users to restrict access to other objects in Coupa. Content groups are also known as business groups in some more back-end cases.
The URL to access content groups is: https://<instance>/api/business_groups
See Integration Best Practices for more info.
Actions
The Content Groups API allows you to:
| Verb | Path | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /api/business_groups |
create | Create business group |
| GET | /api/business_groups |
index | Query business groups |
| GET | /api/business_groups/:id |
show | Show business group |
| PUT | /api/business_groups/:id |
update | Update business group |
Elements
The following elements are available for the Content Groups API:
| Element | Description | Required Field? | Unique? | Allowable Value | Api_In Field? | Api_Out Field? | Data Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| created-at | Automatically created by Coupa in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MMZ | yes | datetime | ||||
| created-by | User who created | yes | User | ||||
| description | description | yes | yes | string(255) | |||
| id | Coupa unique identifier | yes | integer | ||||
| name | name | yes | yes | yes | yes | string(100) | |
| updated-at | Automatically created by Coupa in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MMZ | yes | datetime | ||||
| updated-by | User who updated | yes | User |
Note
When dealing with large data sets of content groups, always limit your GET with some criteria.