Update General Settings

Updates the description, name, icon, revision and color theme of an App.

This API updates the pre-live settings.
After using this API, use the following API to deploy the settings to the live App:
Deploy App Settings

Method	PUT
URL	https://{subdomain}.kintone.com/k/v1/preview/app/settings.json
URL(guest space)	https://{subdomain}.kintone.com/k/guest/{SpaceID}/v1/preview/app/settings.json
Authentication	Password Authentication , API Token Authentication , Session Authentication
Content-Type	application/json

Permissions
Request Parameters
Sample Request
Response Parameters
Sample Response

Permissions

App Management Permissions are needed.

Request Parameters

Parameters that are ignored will not be updated.

Parameter	Value	Required	Description
app	String	Yes	The App ID.
name	String		The App name. The maximum character limit is 64.
description	String		The App description. The maximum character limit is 10,000. HTML tags can be used.
icon	Object		An object containing information of the App icon.
icon.type	String	Conditional	The icon type. Specify one of the following: FILE: An uploaded image. PRESET: A preset icon within Kintone. Required, if the "icon" parameter will be set.
icon.key	String	Conditional	The key identifier of the icon. Required, if the "icon.type" parameter is set as "PRESET". Preset icons have key identifiers that can be obtained using the following API: Get General Settings
icon.file	Object	Conditional	An object containing information of uploaded icon files. Required, if the "icon.type" parameter is set as "FILE".
icon.file.fileKey	String	Conditional	The fileKey of the icon. To attach a file, specify the fileKey responded when using the following API: Upload File The maximum file size limit is 800KB. Required, if the "icon.type" parameter is set as "FILE".
theme	String		The Color theme. The following can be specified: WHITE RED BLUE GREEN YELLOW BLACK
titleField	Object		The record title.
titleField.selectionMode	String	Conditional	The option of "The field to be used as the record title" settings. `AUTO`: The "Set automatically" option. `MANUAL`: The "Set manually" option. . Required if `titleField` is specified.
titleField.code	String	Conditional	The field code of the field used as the title of the record. Required, if `MANUAL` is set for the `titleField.selectionMode` parameter.
enableThumbnails	Boolean		The Show thumbnails setting.
enableBulkDeletion	Boolean		The Enable bulk deletion of records setting.
enableComments	Boolean		The Enable comments setting.
enableDuplicateRecord	Boolean		The Enable the feature to "duplicate record" setting.
numberPrecision	Object		The Precision of numbers and calculations setting.
numberPrecision.digits	String or Integer		The Total Number of Digits setting.
numberPrecision.decimalPlaces	String or Integer		The Number of Decimal Places to Round setting.
numberPrecision.roundingMode	String		The Rounding setting `HALF_EVEN`: Round to nearest even number `UP`: Round up `DOWN`: Round down
firstMonthOfFiscalYear	String or Integer		The First month of Fiscal Year setting. Specify the number of the month.
revision	Integer or String		Specify the revision number of the settings that will be deployed. The request will fail if the revision number is not the latest revision. The revision will not be checked if this parameter is ignored, or -1 is specified.

Sample Request

JavaScript using kintone.api()

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var body = {
  'app': 1,
  'name': 'APP_NAME',
  'description': 'Here is app description.',
  'icon': {
    'type': 'PRESET',
    'key': 'APP72'
  },
  'theme': 'WHITE',
  'titleField': {
    'selectionMode': 'MANUAL',
    'code': 'RecordNumber'
  },
  'enableThumbnails': true,
  'enableBulkDeletion': true,
  'enableComments': true,
  'enableDuplicateRecord': true,
  'numberPrecision': {
    'digits': 16,
    'decimalPlaces': 4,
    'roundingMode': 'HALF_EVEN'
  },
  'firstMonthOfFiscalYear': 4
};

kintone.api(kintone.api.url('/k/v1/preview/app/settings.json', true), 'PUT', body, function(resp) {
  // success
  console.log(resp);
}, function(error) {
  // error
  console.log(error);
});

XMLHttpRequest

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var body = {
  'app': 1,
  'name': 'APP_NAME',
  'description': 'Here is app description.',
  'icon': {
    'type': 'PRESET',
    'key': 'APP72'
  },
  'theme': 'WHITE',
  'titleField': {
    'selectionMode': 'MANUAL',
    'code': 'RecordNumber'
  },
  'enableThumbnails': true,
  'enableBulkDeletion': true,
  'enableComments': true,
  'enableDuplicateRecord': true,
  'numberPrecision': {
    'digits': 16,
    'decimalPlaces': 4,
    'roundingMode': 'HALF_EVEN'
  },
  'firstMonthOfFiscalYear': 4,
  // CSRF TOKEN: used for all APIs that have an HTTP method of POST, PUT and DELETE on Kintone.
  '__REQUEST_TOKEN__': kintone.getRequestToken()
};
var url = 'https://{subdomain}.kintone.com/k/v1/preview/app/settings.json';

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('PUT', url);
xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.onload = function() {
  if (xhr.status === 200) {
    // success
    console.log(JSON.parse(xhr.responseText));
  } else {
    // error
    console.log(JSON.parse(xhr.responseText));
  }
};
xhr.send(JSON.stringify(body));

Response Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
revision	String	The revision number of the App settings.

Sample Response

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{
  "revision": "2"
}

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