---
title: "Updating an existing Participation"
method: PUT
path: "/participations/{id}"
tags: ["Participations"]
---

# Updating an existing Participation

`PUT /participations/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.mavenlink.com/api/v1/participations/{id}`
- Auth: none declared

This endpoint returns structured Participation objects.
As with all Kantata OX API endpoints, the returned data will be referenced in sorted order in the `results` array
and will be indexed by ID in the `participations` top-level JSON key.
Please see our [Response Format](#section/Response-Format) section for more information.

## Path parameters

- `id` integer, required

## Query parameters

- `include` string
- `optional_fields` string[]

## Request body

- object
  - `participation` object
    - `can_invite` boolean: Permission for the participant to invite other users into the project.
    - `can_schedule_their_hours` boolean: Permission for the participant to schedule their own hours.
    - `can_schedule_team_hours` boolean: Permission for the participant to schedule hours for project team members.
    - `can_edit_todos` boolean: Permission for the participant to edit To Dos.
    - `access_level` string: Access level for the user in the workspace. Valid options include "edit_tasks", "view_tasks", "edit_time_and_expenses", "view_time_and_expenses", "edit_financials", "view_financials", "admin". Legacy options include "financial", "time_logging", "collaboration".
    - `team_lead` boolean: Update the role of the participant to be the team lead of the project.
    - `cost_in_cents` integer: Update the cost rate in cents per hour for the participant.
    - `rate_in_cents` integer: Update the bill rate in cents per hour for the participant. This bill rate is ignored if Rate cards are enabled on the account.
    - `workspace_role_id` integer: The ID of the participant's assigned role on a project.
    - `permissions` string: Permission for the user in the workspace. It must be any combination of "edit", "view_only", "view_and_post", "can_edit", "can_post", "can_edit_expense", "can_edit_time", "can_invite", "can_schedule_their_hours", or "can_schedule_team_hours" delimited by commas. ex. "can_post,can_edit_time".
    - `external_reference` object: Typically populated programmatically by a third party system via an integration, this is an optional object that holds data from an external system. It connects objects in an external system with objects in Kantata OX (for example, to connect a Jira issue to a Kantata OX Project).
      - `service_name` string, required: The provider name of the integration. If you are adding multiple external references to the same object, the `service_name` must be unique.
      - `service_model` string, required: The object type of the external object this external reference belongs to.
      - `service_model_ref` string, required: The object ID of the external object this external reference belongs to.
      - `status` string: The status of the integration. Options are `successful`, `pending`, or `failed`.
      - `external_message` string: The message on the external object.
      - `external_link` string: The link to the external object.
      - `external_status` string: The status of the external object in the external system.
      - `locked` boolean: Whether the subject is locked.

## Response `200`

Participation has been updated.

- object
  - `count` integer
  - `meta` object
    - `count` integer
    - `page_count` integer
    - `page_number` integer
    - `page_size` integer
  - `results` object[]
    - `key` string
    - `id` string
  - `participations` object
  - `external_references` object
  - `users` object
  - `workspaces` object
  - `roles` object
  - `workspace_resources` object

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: Unauthorized request
- `403`: Forbidden request
- `404`: Page Not Found
- `422`: Unprocessable Entity
- `503`: Service is unavailable

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