Update a Time Entry

Edit an existing time entry in your ConstructionOnline company account

 https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData?name={name}&TimeInfo={info}

This endpoint allows users to edit an existing expense within their ConstructionOnline company account. To update an expense, users need the unique numerical ID associated with it, stored in the "ID" property. Updated properties should be specified in the request's "expenseInfo" parameter; only the properties listed here will be modified, while all others remain unchanged.

• Requests
• Responses

Requests

name: string

• Unique identifier for the time entry.

Info: JSON 

• Updated properties for the time entry.
• Allowed properties for the purchase order: costCode, startNote, projectId, startTime, endTime

Sample URL request:

• https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData?Name=3nDbZPRYC6ShFGWXgTqZ&TimeInfo={"startTime":"2025-03-25T12:00:00"}

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
# {name} with time data entry's name
# {info} with the updated properties

curl -X PUT https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData?Name={name}&TimeInfo{info} -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 
           {name} with time data entry's name
           {info} with the updated properties */

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/TimeData?Name={name}&TimeInfo{info}"));

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{name} with time data entry's name
#{info} with the updated properties

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/TimeData?Name={name}&TimeInfo{info}"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key 
           {name} with time data entry's name
           {info} with the updated properties */

 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/TimeData?Name={name}&TimeInfo{info}");

Responses

 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with a record of the edited time entry in the body.

 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. 

 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 14, 2025