Need help updating person field via API

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when i try this in the API sandbox it works :

mutation {
change_multiple_column_values(board_id : 1140656959,
item_id :3969481029,
column_values: “{"person":{"personsAndTeams":[{"id":22027695,"kind":"person"}]}}”) {id}
}

when i try via posting JSON to the API - i get a 500 error code. heres what i post

{“query”:
“mutation {
change_multiple_column_values(board_id : 1140656959,
item_id :3969481240,
column_values: “{"person":{"personsAndTeams":[{"id":22027695,"kind":"person"}]}}”) {id}
}”}

heres the header info

Url = “https://api.monday.com/v2”
Set objHTTP = CreateObject(“WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1”)
objHTTP.Open “POST”, Url, False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader “Authorization”, apiKey
objHTTP.setRequestHeader “Content-Type”, “application/json”
objHTTP.send postData

both look identical.
i have a bunch of other updates status/name etc called in the same way that work fine, just for the person update i get the 500.

2

Hi @veloxjon

Generally when you receive a 500 error, it is due to the formatting of the request.

My guess in this instance would be your JSON encoding of the column_values value.

It looks like you are using VBA which I don’t have too much experience with making requests with, but this is a sample query in curl:
curl "https://api.monday.com/v2" \ -X POST \ -H "Content-Type:application/json" \ -H "Authorization:MY_API_KEY" \ -d '{"query":"mutation{change_multiple_column_values(item_id:162169283, board_id:162169280, column_values:\"{\\\"people_2\\\" : {\\\"personsAndTeams\\\":[{\\\"id\\\":4616627,\\\"kind\\\":\\\"person\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":4616666,\\\"kind\\\":\\\"person\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":51166,\\\"kind\\\":\\\"team\\\"}]}}\"){name}}"}'

This might help you with the JSON encoding of the payload.