---
title: "Post Collection Exercise End Message"
method: POST
path: "/collection-exercises-end"
---

# Post Collection Exercise End Message

`POST /collection-exercises-end`

## Request

- The document declares no server URL.
- Auth: none declared

Endpoint to receive collection exercise end message, process the message and mark datasets for deletion
if dataset_guid is present in the message.

Parameters:
collection_end_data (CollectionExerciseEndData): The collection exercise end message body, containing the GUID
of the dataset to be deleted and the survey_id and period id to find the relevant dataset metadata for deletion.

This endpoint is currently not being used and is partially built without implementation of unhappy path

## Request body

- CollectionExerciseEndData
  - `survey_id` string, required
  - `period_id` string, required
  - `dataset_guid` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Changes

> 32 revisions in range; 2 not diffed.

- **2026-07-01** `9a87e51baf13`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/office-of-national-statistics/apis/supplementary-data-service/changes/collection-exercises-end/post.md)

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/office-of-national-statistics/apis/supplementary-data-service.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/office-of-national-statistics/apis/supplementary-data-service/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/office-of-national-statistics/apis/supplementary-data-service/revisions/9a87e51baf13?raw)