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 Deploy App Settings API to deploy the settings to the live App.

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	API Token Authentication, Password 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 Get General Settings API.)
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 Upload File API. 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
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 REST API Request)

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var body = {
  'app': 1,
  'name': 'APP_NAME',
  'description': 'Here is app description.',
  'icon': {
    'type': 'PRESET',
    'key': 'APP72'
  },
  'theme': 'WHITE'
};

kintone.api(kintone.api.url('/k/v1/preview/app/settings', 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',
  // 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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