Variablegroups - Update

Service:

Distributed Task

API Version:

7.1

Update a variable group.

PUT https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups/{groupId}?api-version=7.1

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
groupId	path	True	integer (int32)	Id of the variable group to update.
organization	path	True	string	The name of the Azure DevOps organization.
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '7.1' to use this version of the api.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Sets description of the variable group.
name	string	Sets name of the variable group.
providerData	VariableGroupProviderData	Sets provider data.
type	string	Sets type of the variable group.
variableGroupProjectReferences	VariableGroupProjectReference[]	A variable group reference is a shallow reference to variable group.
variables	<string,  VariableValue>	Sets variables contained in the variable group.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	VariableGroup	successful operation

Security

oauth2

Type: oauth2
Flow: accessCode
Authorization URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize&response_type=Assertion
Token URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/token?client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer

Scopes

Name	Description
vso.variablegroups_manage	Grants the ability to read, create and manage variablegroups.

Definitions

Name	Description
IdentityRef
ProjectReference
ReferenceLinks	The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.
VariableGroup	A variable group is a collection of related variables.
VariableGroupParameters
VariableGroupProjectReference	A variable group reference is a shallow reference to variable group.
VariableGroupProviderData	Defines provider data of the variable group.
VariableValue	A wrapper class for a generic variable.

IdentityRef

Object

Name	Type	Description
_links	ReferenceLinks	This field contains zero or more interesting links about the graph subject. These links may be invoked to obtain additional relationships or more detailed information about this graph subject.
descriptor	string	The descriptor is the primary way to reference the graph subject while the system is running. This field will uniquely identify the same graph subject across both Accounts and Organizations.
directoryAlias	string	Deprecated - Can be retrieved by querying the Graph user referenced in the "self" entry of the IdentityRef "_links" dictionary
displayName	string	This is the non-unique display name of the graph subject. To change this field, you must alter its value in the source provider.
id	string
imageUrl	string	Deprecated - Available in the "avatar" entry of the IdentityRef "_links" dictionary
inactive	boolean	Deprecated - Can be retrieved by querying the Graph membership state referenced in the "membershipState" entry of the GraphUser "_links" dictionary
isAadIdentity	boolean	Deprecated - Can be inferred from the subject type of the descriptor (Descriptor.IsAadUserType/Descriptor.IsAadGroupType)
isContainer	boolean	Deprecated - Can be inferred from the subject type of the descriptor (Descriptor.IsGroupType)
isDeletedInOrigin	boolean
profileUrl	string	Deprecated - not in use in most preexisting implementations of ToIdentityRef
uniqueName	string	Deprecated - use Domain+PrincipalName instead
url	string	This url is the full route to the source resource of this graph subject.

ProjectReference

Object

Name	Type	Description
id	string (uuid)
name	string

ReferenceLinks

Object

The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.

Name	Type	Description
links	object	The readonly view of the links. Because Reference links are readonly, we only want to expose them as read only.

VariableGroup

Object

A variable group is a collection of related variables.

Name	Type	Description
createdBy	IdentityRef	Gets or sets the identity who created the variable group.
createdOn	string (date-time)	Gets or sets the time when variable group was created.
description	string	Gets or sets description of the variable group.
id	integer (int32)	Gets or sets id of the variable group.
isShared	boolean	Indicates whether variable group is shared with other projects or not.
modifiedBy	IdentityRef	Gets or sets the identity who modified the variable group.
modifiedOn	string (date-time)	Gets or sets the time when variable group was modified
name	string	Gets or sets name of the variable group.
providerData	VariableGroupProviderData	Gets or sets provider data.
type	string	Gets or sets type of the variable group.
variableGroupProjectReferences	VariableGroupProjectReference[]	all project references where the variable group is shared with other projects.
variables	<string,  VariableValue>	Gets or sets variables contained in the variable group.

VariableGroupParameters

Object

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Sets description of the variable group.
name	string	Sets name of the variable group.
providerData	VariableGroupProviderData	Sets provider data.
type	string	Sets type of the variable group.
variableGroupProjectReferences	VariableGroupProjectReference[]	A variable group reference is a shallow reference to variable group.
variables	<string,  VariableValue>	Sets variables contained in the variable group.

VariableGroupProjectReference

Object

A variable group reference is a shallow reference to variable group.

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Gets or sets description of the variable group.
name	string	Gets or sets name of the variable group.
projectReference	ProjectReference	Gets or sets project reference of the variable group.

VariableGroupProviderData

Object

Defines provider data of the variable group.

VariableValue

Object

A wrapper class for a generic variable.

Name	Type	Description
isReadOnly	boolean	Indicates whether the variable can be changed during script's execution runtime.
isSecret	boolean	Indicates whether the variable should be encrypted at rest.
value	string	The value of the variable.