---
title: "API_ChangeRecordOwner"
slug: "api-changerecordowner"
updated: 2025-08-18T09:04:29Z
published: 2025-08-18T09:04:29Z
---

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# API_ChangeRecordOwner

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## Overview

Use API_ChangeRecordOwner to change the owner of a record.

In Quickbase, a person who creates a record is the record owner. You can set up roles that restrict a record's view/modify access to the record owner. On occasion, you may need to transfer record ownership from one user to another. If you are using a technical support application, for instance, you might want to transfer ownership of a support incident (record) from one tech support rep to another.

You must have Full Administration rights on the application to use this call.

## Request parameters

| Parameter | Value | Required? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| rid *or*key | The record ID. Every record in every table has a unique rid. Normally, the record ID is the key field for the record. If you set your record's key field to a field OTHER than the record id (rid), you should use the key parameter rather than rid. | yes |
| newowner | Specifies the user to whom you are transferring ownership. You can specify either of the following: - the user's Quickbase user name - the user's email address | yes |
| ticket | A valid authentication ticket. The authentication ticket is returned via the API_Authenticate call. | yes, one of: - ticket - username/password - user token |
| usertoken | A user token – this is a ticket alternative, used for API access | yes, one of: - ticket - username/password - user token |
| apptoken | A valid application token. | yes, if required by the application |
| udata | A string value that you want returned. It will not be handled by Quickbase but it will be returned in the response. | no |

## Response values

| Element Name | Value |
| --- | --- |
| action | The originating request, for example, API_SetRecordOwner. |
| errcode | Identifies the error code, if any. (See the [Error Codes appendix](/v1/docs/error-codes) for a list of possible error codes.) 0 indicates that no error was encountered. |
| errtext | Text that explains the error code. "No error" indicates that no error was encountered. |
| udata | Optional. Contains any udata value supplied in the request. |

## Sample XML Request

```xml
POST https://target_domain/db/target_dbid HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length:
QUICKBASE-ACTION: API_ChangeRecordOwner

<qdbapi>
   <ticket>auth_ticket</ticket>
   <apptoken>app_token</apptoken>
   <rid>3</rid>
   <newowner>Muggsy</newowner>
</qdbapi>
```

## URL alternative

```plaintext
https://target_domain/db/target_dbid?a=API_ChangeRecordOwner&rid=3
&newowner=Muggsy&ticket=auth_ticket&apptoken=app_token
```

where *target_domain* is the domain against which you are invoking this call, for example, *quickbase.com*. [Read about this notation](/v1/docs/understanding-the-api-call-reference).

## Sample response

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<qdbapi>
<action>api_changerecordowner</action>
   <errcode>0</errcode>
   <errtext>No error</errtext>
   <udata>mydata</udata>
</qdbapi>
```