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The Batch Course Update API call only includes the bare minimum of options for LMS admins:

 

{
  "items": :
    {
      "id": 0,
      "code": "string",
      "title": "string",
      "description": "string",
      "language": "string",
      "course_status": "published",
      "category_id": 0,
      "category_code": 0,
      "thumbnail_id": 0,
      "batch_item_id": "string"
    }
  ]
}

 

This should be updated to include Additional Fields so that this is not a manual process when updating courses.

I think you may want to share this as an idea.

But just in case it helps, I wanted to mention a potential workaround as well. That’d be to – instead of a batch update via the Courses service – cycle through your courses via the Learn service instead. You could do this either with a script or, if you have Docebo Connect, a recipe.

  1. You can get all courses via GET /learn/v1/courses, and then
  2. Update them one at a time via PUT /learn/v1/courses/{id}

There are many other fields that you can update this way besides the additional fields.

Thanks, Ian. Good point, I‘ve now shared it as an idea, here. 

Thanks for the potential workarounds - I will give those a try! 😃

Thanks to Ian’s suggestion, I have now been able to use Docebo Connect as a workaround.

This was achieved by uploading the data into a Lookup Table in Docebo Connect, then by using a repeat function to cycle through each record using the Update Course API call (/learn/v1/courses/{id}).

The only caveat is that Lookup Tables are limited to 10 columns, so if you have more than 9 fields to update (1 field is needed for the course id), then you need to use multiple tables.

 

Hello @Ian & @trouk,

Thank you for sharing your experience. We are also looking for a workaround to update an additionnal fieldd with Batch course update and I came across your post but we do not have Docebo Connect and I’m wondering if this can do in Postman? Thanks

I’m fairly sure you can use Postman to do this, @RokiaB, but I’m not a Postman expert and so I don’t feel particularly comfortable trying to advise you on how to use scripting there. I think I know who to call, however.

*hums the theme tune to Ghostbusters*

@Bfarkas!

Great! yes you’re right i didn’t do the link but yes probabely @Bfarkas can help me? Mainly to automate the PUT call or using a repeat function like mentioned above.. Thank you

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