Update work activity

Updates an existing work activity. All fields are required - provide complete activity configuration.

What can be updated:

Activity name
Multilingual translations

Important: This is a full update - all fields must be provided.

PUT/administration/task-settings/activities/{id}

Authorization

AuthorizationOAuth2 access token · headerrequired

Scopes:api:write

AuthorizationBearer token (JWT) · headerrequired

Path parameters

idstringrequired

Query parameters

fieldsToReturnstring

Comma-separated list of top-level response fields to return. Overrides the endpoint compact default unless responseShape=full is used.

responseShapestring

Advanced override. Omit for the endpoint compact default. Use full only when you need the complete endpoint response, including nested fields that are not selectable with fieldsToReturn.

Allowed:compactfull

Header parameters

LT-Response-Shapestring

Advanced override. Set to full only when you need the complete endpoint response, including nested fields that are not selectable with fieldsToReturn.

Allowed:full

Request body

requiredapplication/json

namestringrequired

Default work activity name (used as fallback when no translation exists for user's language)

translationsWorkActivityTranslationDto[]required

Language-specific translations for activity name. Overrides the default name when user's language matches.

Show properties

Array of WorkActivityTranslationDto

languagestringrequired

Language code following ISO 639-1 format (e.g., "en", "de", "fr")

namestringrequired

Translated name for this language. Overrides the default name when user's language matches.

Responses

200Work activity updated successfully

idstringrequired

Work activity ID

namestringrequired

Default work activity name (used as fallback when no translation exists for user's language)

sortnumberrequired

Sort order

translationsWorkActivityTranslationDto[]required

Language-specific translations for activity name. Overrides the default name when user's language matches.

Show properties

Array of WorkActivityTranslationDto

languagestringrequired

Language code following ISO 639-1 format (e.g., "en", "de", "fr")

namestringrequired

Translated name for this language. Overrides the default name when user's language matches.

401Unauthorized - Invalid or missing authentication token

403Forbidden - Insufficient API scopes or permissions

Request

curl -X PUT "https://leadtime.app/api/public/administration/task-settings/activities/string" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "name": "Development",
  "translations": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "name": "Development"
    }
  ]
}'

const response = await fetch("https://leadtime.app/api/public/administration/task-settings/activities/string", {
  method: "PUT",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "name": "Development",
  "translations": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "name": "Development"
    }
  ]
})
});

import requests

response = requests.put(
    "https://leadtime.app/api/public/administration/task-settings/activities/string",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    json={
  "name": "Development",
  "translations": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "name": "Development"
    }
  ]
},
)

Response

{
  "id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000",
  "name": "Development",
  "sort": 1,
  "translations": [
    {
      "language": "en",
      "name": "Development"
    }
  ]
}