---
title: "Update a record"
description: "Applies a partial update; the body is {\"fields\":{…}}, keyed by field id or exact name."
canonical: "https://gtable.app/docs/app-api/records/update"
updated: "2026-10-05"
---

# Update a record

`PATCH https://your-suite.gtable.app/your-app/v1/tables/{tableId}/records/{recordId}`

Applies a partial update; the body is {"fields":{…}}, keyed by field id or exact name.

> **Note: Generic contract**
>
> Your own version of this operation, with your tables and the fields you can read, is in
> your app's document: `https://{suite}.gtable.app/{app}/v1/openapi.json`, behind your credential.
> [Why each person gets their own](/docs/start/studio-and-runtime#why-an-app-has-an-api-of-its-own).

If the change moves the record outside what you can see, the response says so rather than pretending the record vanished. Email, URL and phone text is preserved; visible suspect values are returned in warnings (code suspect\_format, recordId, fieldId, fieldName, message). A warning is a successful save, not a reason to retry. Invalid numeric values, ratings and ISO dates fail with validation\_failed/422. A failing create batch saves no rows.

Requires the `records:write` scope. Operation `records.update`. MCP tool `records_update`. CLI, once published: `gtable records update`.

## Path parameters

| Name       | Type   | Required | Description |
| ---------- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
| `tableId`  | string | yes      |             |
| `recordId` | string | yes      |             |

## Headers

| Name              | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ----------------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `Idempotency-Key` | string | no       | Any unique string. Sending the same key with the same request again returns the first response (marked `Idempotency-Replayed: true`) instead of running it twice. Reusing it for a different request is refused with 409. Kept for 24 hours. Up to 255 characters. |

## Request body

| Field         | Type   | Required | Description          |
| ------------- | ------ | -------- | -------------------- |
| `fields`      | object | yes      |                      |
| `baseVersion` | string | no       | Up to 64 characters. |