Update User

Update an existing Slack user by overwriting values for specified attributes.

Options

Field	Definition	Type	Required
Set Empty Field	YES: Input fields that are not selected will remain unchanged; input fields that are selected but left blank or filled in with a null value will clear the existing value in those fields. NO: Input fields that are not selected, or selected but left blank or set to a null value, will be removed from the final request, so that these fields will remain unchanged after the update request.	Dropdown	TRUE

Field

Definition

Type

Required

Set Empty Field

YES: Input fields that are not selected will remain unchanged; input fields that are selected but left blank or filled in with a null value will clear the existing value in those fields.
NO: Input fields that are not selected, or selected but left blank or set to a null value, will be removed from the final request, so that these fields will remain unchanged after the update request.

TRUE

The following fields can't be set to empty:

Primary Email
Secondary Email
Username
Nickname

The Primary Phone and Mobile Phone attributes can only be removed when together selected, and left blank or filled in with a null value.

The Address attribute will only be removed when all its sub-attributes are select, and left blank or filled in with a null value.

Sub-attributes can't be removed separately.

Input

Field	Definition	Type	Required
Update by
Id	Unique Slack ID. Use the Search User card to find a user's Slack ID by their username or email address.	Text	TRUE
Email
Primary Email	User's primary email address.	Text	FALSE
Secondary Name	User's secondary email address.	Text	FALSE
Username
Username	Login username of the user.	Text	FALSE
Nickname	User's nickname.	Text	FALSE
Last Name	User's last name.	Text	FALSE
First Name	User's first name.	Text	FALSE
Display Name	Name of the user, suitable for display to end users.	Text	FALSE
Honorific Prefix	User's honorific prefix or title.	Text	FALSE
Phone
Primary Phone	User's primary phone number.	Text	FALSE
Mobile Phone	User's mobile phone number.	Text	FALSE
Address
Street Address	Full street address of the user.	Text	FALSE
Locality	Locality of the user.	Text	FALSE
Region	Region of the user.	Text	FALSE
Postal Code	Zip or postal code of the user.	Text	FALSE
Country	Country of the user.	Text	FALSE
User Details
Profile Photo URL	URL for the user's profile photo.	Text	FALSE
What I Do	Informal profile description of the user's role.	Text	FALSE
User Type	Type of user.	Text	FALSE
Role	User's role in their organization.	Text	FALSE
Localization
Time Zone	User's time zone.	Dropdown	FALSE
Preferred Language	User's preferred language.	Text	FALSE
Locale	User's default location for purposes of localizing items like currency, date/time format, and numerical representations.	Text	FALSE
Enterprise
Department	Name of user's department.	Text	FALSE
Division	Name of user's division.	Text	FALSE
Employee Number	User's organization- or company-assigned unique identifier.	Text	FALSE
Organization	Name of user's organization.	Text	FALSE
Cost Center	Name of the cost center assigned with the user.	Text	FALSE
Manager ID	Unique identifier of the user's manager.	Text	FALSE

Output

Field	Definition	Type
User
ID	User's unique identification.	Text

Update User

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