Delete a change order

Remove a change order from a project in your ConstructionOnline company account

  https://api.constructiononline.com/api/ChangeOrders/{id}?coInfo={coInfo}&action=DELETE

This endpoint allows users to remove an existing change order from a project they have access to in ConstructionOnline. To delete a change order, users must know the unique numerical ID assigned to the change order. Please note—deleting an change order will delete any items within the change order itself. 

• Requests
• Responses

Requests

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

id: integer

• Unique identifier for the change order.

coInfo: JSON 

• Must contain the ID of the change order in the form of a key-value pair
• Example: coInfo={"ID" : "1234567"}

Sample request URL:

• https://api.constructiononline.com/api/ChangeOrders?id=1234567&coInfo={"ID" : "1234567"}&action=DELETE

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key
# {id} with the change order's ID
# {coInfo} with the change order's ID

curl -X PUT https://api.constructiononline.com/api/ChangeOrders/{id}?coInfo={coInfo}&action=DELETE -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key 
           {id} with the change order's ID 
           {coInfo} with the change order's ID */

public string MakeRequest(string endpoint, string payload) {
                string username = {username};
                string password = {password};
                string apiKey = {apikey};
                string response = "";
                var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
                using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
                    client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apiKey);
                    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
                    HttpContent content = new StringContent(payload, System.Text.Encoding.UTF32, "application/json");
                    response = client.PutAsync(endpoint, content).Result.ToString();
                }
                return response;
            }

     MakeRequest("api/ChangeOrders/{id}?coInfo={coInfo}&action=DELETE");

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{id} with the change order's ID
#{coInfo} with the change order's ID

import base64, requests, json

   #Global Variables
    apikey = {apikey}
    username = {username}
    password = {password}

    #Functions
     def makeRequest(endpoint, payload):
           url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
            userPass = username + ":" + password    
            headers = {
                    "APIKey": apikey,
                    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
                    "Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
                }
                response = requests.request("PUT", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
                return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)   
            
       #Main Program
        print(makeRequest("api/ChangeOrders/{id}?coInfo={coInfo}&action=DELETE"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key 
           {id} with the change order's ID
           {coInfo} with the change order's ID */

 username = '{username}';
 password = '{password}';
 apikey = '{apikey}';

       function makeRequest(endpoint, payload) {
           auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
           var myHeaders = new Headers();
           myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
           myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
           myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
              var requestOptions = {
                    method: 'PUT',
                    body: '',
                    headers: myHeaders,
                    redirect: 'follow'
                };
                fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
                    .then(response => response.text())
                    .then(result => console.log(result))
                    .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
                return response;
            };

      makeRequest("api/ChangeOrders/{id}?coInfo={coInfo}&action=DELETE");

Responses

 200: Success

A successful request will return an empty 200 response, signaling that the change order was successfully removed.

 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. The ID may have been entered incorrectly or a change order with the entered ID does not exist.

 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

  500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: April 19, 2024