Update a feed post
Workforce module
PATCH/feed-posts/{id}feedPosts.update
A feed post for an audience: an announcement, update, poll or recognition, with pinning, required acknowledgment, reaction and comment switches and a publish time. Updates the fields sent; omitted fields are unchanged. Requires `If-Match` with the current `ETag`: a stale tag returns 412 and a missing tag returns 428.
- Requires the capability knowledge.document.write.
- OAuth scopes: knowledge.
- Send If-Match with the ETag you read. A stale tag returns 412; a missing tag returns 428.
- Error statuses: 400, 401, 404, 412, 422, 428, 429. Errors are RFC 9457 problem details.
Path and query parameters
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the feed post. |
Request body: FeedPostUpdate
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| reactions_enabled | boolean | No | Whether members can react. |
| comments_enabled | boolean | No | Whether members can comment. |
| publish_at | string (date-time) | No | When the post appears; a future time schedules it. |
{
"reactions_enabled": true,
"comments_enabled": true,
"publish_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z"
}Response 200: FeedPost
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the feed post. |
| org_id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the owning organization, derived from the parent row and never accepted from the caller. |
| created_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the row was created. |
| created_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Person who created the row; null for seed, platform or system writes. |
| updated_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the row was last updated. |
| updated_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Person who last updated the row; null for seed, platform or system writes. |
| post_kind | "Announcement" | "Update" | "Poll" | "Recognition" | Yes | Post kind; Poll posts come from the createPoll action, Recognition posts from recognitions. |
| title | string | null | Yes | Optional headline.Constraints: length 1 to 200 |
| body | string | Yes | Post text.Constraints: length 1 to 10000 |
| audience_kind | "Organization" | "Project" | "Team" | "Department" | "Role" | "Group" | Yes | Who the row reaches. Department (a canon department, 1365) is for feed posts only. |
| project_id | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the project audience, or the project the row belongs to. |
| team_id | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the team audience. |
| role_id | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the org role audience. |
| group_id | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the group audience, including department groups. |
| department_code | string | null | Yes | Canon department code of a Department audience (xpms.dim_department).Constraints: pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,63}$ |
| author_membership_id | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the member who wrote the post. |
| pinned_at | string (date-time) | null | Yes | When the post was pinned; null when not pinned. |
| requires_acknowledgment | boolean | Yes | Whether every member of the audience must acknowledge it. |
| reactions_enabled | boolean | Yes | Whether members can react. |
| comments_enabled | boolean | Yes | Whether members can comment. |
| publish_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the post appears; a future time schedules it. |
| notified_at | string (date-time) | null | Yes | When the audience was notified. |
| hidden_at | string (date-time) | null | Yes | When the post was hidden. |
| hidden_reason | string | null | Yes | Why it was hidden.Constraints: length 1 to 500 |
{
"id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"org_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"created_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"created_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"updated_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"updated_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"post_kind": "Announcement",
"title": "Wristband change",
"body": "Wristbands change color on Friday.",
"audience_kind": "Organization",
"project_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"team_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"role_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"group_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"department_code": "5000",
"author_membership_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"pinned_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"requires_acknowledgment": false,
"reactions_enabled": true,
"comments_enabled": true,
"publish_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"notified_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"hidden_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"hidden_reason": "Posted to the wrong project."
}Code samples
curl -X PATCH "$XOS_BASE_URL/feed-posts/0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XOS_API_KEY" \
-H 'If-Match: W/"etag-from-your-last-read"' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"reactions_enabled":true,"comments_enabled":true,"publish_at":"2026-10-08T14:30:00Z"}'const { data, etag } = await xos.feedPosts.update("0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f", {
"reactions_enabled": true,
"comments_enabled": true,
"publish_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z"
}, { ifMatch: etag });response = xos.feed_posts.update("0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f", {"reactions_enabled": True, "comments_enabled": True, "publish_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z"}, if_match=etag)xos feed-posts update 0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f --data '{"reactions_enabled":true,"comments_enabled":true,"publish_at":"2026-10-08T14:30:00Z"}' --if-match auto