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  • This website is Hornbill's new product documentation website and is currently under development.
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  • Hornbill's current documentation is available at Hornbill Wiki but over time this content will be migrated to this documentation site.
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Entity API / smUpdateStatus

Operation Information

  • Application Reference: com.hornbill.servicemanager
  • Scope: Entity - Requests
  • Class: Entity
  • Required Privilege Level: guest
  • Required Rights: none

Description

This flowcode is used to update the Status of a request and optionally update the Sub-status. You can choose whether to update the timeline, set the visibility of the timeline post and choose to set an indefinite or fixed off-hold time if updating the request status to 'On Hold'

Request Parameters

The smUpdateStatus API takes the following input parameters. It is important to note that the parameters must satisfy the requirement of the input validation checks.

Name Type Required Description
requestId xs:string Yes The h_pk_reference value of the h_itsm_requests record.
status xs:string Yes The status that the request is to be updated to (New, Open, On Hold, Resolved, Closed, Cancelled).
subStatus xs:string No The sub-status that the request is to be updated to
updateTimeline xs:string No Indicates whether or not a system update is made to the request timeline. Default is No. This param is superseeded by the input param manualUpdateTimeline.
manualUpdateTimeline xs:string No Freetext update to the request timeline. This superseeds the input param updateTimeline.
visibility xs:string No The request timeline post visibility. If not specified, the application option value will be used.
onHoldUntilDate xs:dateTime No If placing on hold, you can provide the date and time that the request is to be placed On Hold until.
statusActionReason xs:string No You can enter some descriptive text here relating to reasons for the action e.g. reason for placing on hold, reason for cancelling etc

Response Parameters

Name Type Description
activityId xs:string The ID of the entry created in the activity stream
exceptionName xs:string Name of the returned exception
exceptionDescription xs:string Description of the returned exception

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