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 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

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

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.

Sample response

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