Set Multiple Values for Single Attribute in API Call

[Chandler Warren]

Hi there,

I've been working quite a bit with the Insight API to create, update, and delete objects. Up to now, I've only been updating attributes with one value at a time. For instance, Display Name : Test Name. However, I have an object attribute that can accept multiple values, both of which are references to other objects. Is there a way to set this through an API call? 

When my colleague initially imported the data via .csv, this could be done with a set of pipes. So a single attribute could take values 112 and 113 as "112||113" and both references would show up for that object attribute. Is there a way to replicate this in the body of an API request so I can edit object attributes with multiple values at once? Or add a value to an existing one instead of overriding it? At the moment, the closest I can get is passing two values at once, but only the last one is the value that shows up for the object. 

Thanks for any assistance,

[Chandler Warren · Accepted solution]

If anyone stumbles upon this and is wondering the same thing, you just add the second value as another comma-separated value, like so

"attributes": [

{ "objectTypeAttributeId": "265",

  "objectAttributeValues": [

     { "value": "A first value" },

     { "value": "A second value" }

]}]

and the field will have both values. I guess that's obvious now, but I was trying to mimic the .csv upload syntax. Cheers