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# Batch update Organization

PATCH https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/organization:batch-update
Content-Type: application/json

Batch update Organization synchronously in one transaction. Maximum 25 items per request.

Reference: https://docs.benchling.com/docs/api/benchling-api/organization/batchupdate

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an object.

- `items` (list of UpdateOrganizationInputWithPathParams, required)

## Response

### 200

OK

- `items` (list of Organization, required)

## Errors

### 400 Organization Batch Update Request Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 403 Organization Batch Update Request Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 404 Organization Batch Update Request Not Found Error

Not Found

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 409 Organization Batch Update Request Conflict Error

Conflict

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 429 Organization Batch Update Request Too Many Requests Error

Too Many Requests

- `detail` (TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)
- `violated-policies` (list of enum, optional) — The budget policies that rejected the request, in canonical order: `user`, `integration`, then `tenant`.
  - Allowed values: `user`, `integration`, `tenant`

### 500 Organization Batch Update Request Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `detail` (InternalServerErrorBodyDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `errorId` (string, optional)

## Types

### UpdateOrganizationInputWithPathParams

- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the organization.

### Organization

Represents a group of users within Benchling, typically corresponding to a company, department, or research group. Organizations provide a many-to-many relationship between users—each user can belong to multiple organizations, and each organization can have multiple users. Users are designated as either ADMIN (with management privileges) or MEMBER within the organization via `GroupMembership`. Organizations can own resources like Projects and Folders, and can contain Teams for finer-grained user grouping. Organizations also control access settings such as whether members can create personal ownables and what default policies apply to new resources. In the UI, organizations appear in user profiles and are used for sharing and access control throughout Benchling.

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `createdAt` (string, optional)
- `handle` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)
- `memberships` (string, optional)
- `modifiedAt` (string, optional)
- `name` (string, optional, nullable)

### GeneralErrorDetail

### TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail

### InternalServerErrorBodyDetail

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "id"
    }
  ]
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "__typename": "__typename",
      "createdAt": "createdAt",
      "handle": "handle",
      "id": "id",
      "memberships": "memberships",
      "modifiedAt": "modifiedAt",
      "name": "name"
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/organization:batch-update"

payload = { "items": [{ "id": "id" }] }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/organization:batch-update';
const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"items":[{"id":"id"}]}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```