Update webinar start_time?

API and Webhooks
1

Hi,

I’m using the REST API, and so far it’s been fairly straight forward. But I just ran into my first problem.

I’m using PATCH /webinars/{webinarId} to update a webinar, but it doesn’t seem to accept changes to the start_time. I can change anything else - title, agenda, password, etc … but it seems to just ignore changes to start_time.

Is this by design, a bug or am I missing something?

An example of my content payload is …

{
  "type": 5,
  "settings": {
    "approval_type": 0,
    "host_video": true,
    "close_registration": true,
    "registrants_confirmation_email": false
  },
  "topic": "Live Test",
  "agenda": "Test from BIPRI live, updated",
  "start_time": "2019-03-01'T'03:55:00",
  "duration": "60",
  "password": ""
}

TIA for any help,

– hugh

2

Note that I’m only creating type 5 (one off) webinars, not recurring ones. I found another thread that talked about having issues trying to change the start_time of a single occurrence of a recurring meeting, but that doesn’t apply to me.

3

Hi @radair,

Looks like your doing the start time in local format. Have you included the timezone in the payload as well since you’re using local time?

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Thanks

4

Hmm, OK, I’ll look at that. I figured it would work, as it accepts that exact same payload when creating the object.

5

Problem solved, and bot do I feel dumb. I had single quotes round the ‘T’ in the datetime string …

"start_time": "2019-03-01'T'03:55:00",

because that’s what the API spec says for date strings, and I’ve never used that style of datetime format before, and I took it literally. Removing the quotes …

"start_time": "2019-03-01T03:55:00",

… everything works as expected.

Thanks for the prompt response, it got me looking in the right place.

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