Archive a content record

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/contents/{id}/archive

Coming soon. This endpoint is not available yet, and the details below may change before release.

Archives a content record, removing it from the published catalogue. This is the reversible take-down — the everyday "unpublish" — and it is undone with POST /contents/{id}/restore.

Only published content can be archived; anything else returns 409.

Archiving is also the first step in permanently removing published content, since DELETE /contents/{id} refuses to delete a published record.

Security
HTTP
Type basic

HTTP Basic authentication using your Tenant ID and API secret.

  • Username is the Tenant ID (i.e. eu-west-2_AbcdEfghI)
  • Password is the API secret you would have received.

You can also authenticate using OAuth 2.0 client credentials (oauth2 security scheme) instead of Basic auth.

OAuth

OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.

Use the following token endpoints (replace :tenantId with your Tenant ID):

  • Public API access tokens

    • Staging: https://public.api.learnstaging.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production: https://public.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Staging MEA: https://public.api.meastaging.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production MEA: https://public.api.mea.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
  • Webhooks access tokens

    • Staging: https://user.api.learnstaging.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production: https://user.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Staging MEA: https://user.api.meastaging.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId
    • Production MEA: https://user.api.mea.learn.tech/oauth2/token/:tenantId

All access tokens must be sent using the Authorization: Bearer <access_token> header.

Scopes

For API access (non-webhooks), the following scopes are available:

  • api/all – Full read and write access to the API.
  • api/read – Read-only access to the API.
  • api/write – Write access to the API.

For webhooks, the following scopes are available:

  • api/webhooks – Access to webhook functionality.
  • api/all – Full read and write access to the API, including webhooks.

Tokens must include appropriate scopes for the endpoints you wish to call.

FlowClient Credentials
Token URLhttps://public.api.learn.link/oauth2/token/:tenantId
Scopes:
api/writeWrite access to the API.
Path parameters
id
stringRequired

Unique identifier of the content item

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$
Example5f9d88d6e1b2a34c56d78902
Body parameters
actor

Identify the acting user

Every write must say who is performing it. Supply authorRef, collaborationId, or both.

{
  "authorRef": "UID30084022"
}
object

Identifies who is performing the write, so that the change is attributed to a real person or collaboration rather than to the system. At least one of authorRef or collaborationId is required.

This shape is used by the Coming Soon writes only. The writes that are available today — POST /contents, PATCH /contents/{id}, DELETE /contents/{id} and POST /contents/{id}/publish — carry the acting user in their own bodies and require authorRef. Only POST /contents also accepts collaborationId. The Coming Soon writes are expected to follow them.

Both are validated before anything is written — an unknown reference, or one belonging to another organisation, is rejected.

This is provisional. How the acting user is supplied may change before release — most likely moving from the request body to a request header. The identifiers themselves are not expected to change.

authorRef
string

The ref of the user performing the write. This user becomes the acting user for the operation and, on create, the content's author.

ExampleUID30084022
collaborationId
string

The id of the collaboration that owns the content. When supplied alongside authorRef, the collaboration owns the content and the author is the acting user. When supplied on its own there is no acting user, and the platform records the change against a generic system account.

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$
Example5c8936159ec2d00010cdd334
Responses
200

The archived content

archived

Archived

The content has left the published catalogue and can be restored.

{
  "id": "5f9d88d6e1b2a34c56d78902",
  "status": "archived",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "5c8936159ec2d00010cdd334",
      "type": "elearning",
      "rank": 0,
      "summary": "Onboarding course",
      "status": "ok"
    }
  ]
}
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object

What the archive and restore endpoints return: the record's identifier, its lifecycle status, and the state of its items. This is not the same shape as the GET /contents/{id} read, which returns the catalogue view of a record, and which the publish endpoint returns.

id
string

Unique identifier for the content

Pattern^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$
Example5f9d88d6e1b2a34c56d78902
status
string

Lifecycle status of a content record. Note this is a different vocabulary from the statuses filter on GET /contents, which uses the legacy values created, published, archived and deleted.

Valid values[ "draft", "ready", "published", "archived" ]
Exampledraft
items
Array of object (ContentItemState)

The items that make up the content, with per-item processing state

object

One item within a content record, with its processing state.

id
string

Unique identifier for the item

Example5c8936159ec2d00010cdd334
type
string

The item type

Exampleelearning
rank
integer

The item's position within the content, lowest first

Example0
summary
string

A short label for the item, shown to learners

ExampleWelcome
status
string

The item's processing state. An item must reach ok before the content can become ready.

Valid values[ "processing", "ok", "error" ]
Exampleprocessing
error
string | null

Why processing failed, when status is error

Exampleopenapi-json-null-sentinel-value-2BF93600-0FE4-4250-987A-E5DDB203E464
401

Unauthorized

object

Unauthorized

status
number
Example401
error
string
ExampleUnauthorized
message
string
403

Forbidden

object

Forbidden

status
number
Example403
error
string
ExampleForbidden
message
string #deprecatedtemplate# #additional-property-template#
OneOf
string
string
object
object
404

Not Found

object

Not found

status
number
Example404
error
string
ExampleNot Found
message
string #deprecatedtemplate# #additional-property-template#
OneOf
string
string
object
object
409

Conflict — the content is not published, so it cannot be archived.

object

There was a conflict with the request and the resource

status
number
Example409
error
string
ExampleConflict
message
string
ExampleThe resource already exists
415

Unsupported Media Type — Content-Type must be application/json

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id
string
ExampleUNIQUEREFERENCE111000
timestamp
string
Example2020-03-09T22:18:26.625Z
eventType
string
Valid values[ "user_joined", "user_updated", "user_suspended" ]
message
object

The request could not be processed due to a validation error

status
number
Example422
error
string
ExampleUnprocessable Entity
message
string
ExampleThe startDate must be in a valid ISO 8601 format
422

Unprocessable Content

object

Unprocessable Content

status
number
Example422
error
string
ExampleUnprocessable Content
message
string #deprecatedtemplate# #additional-property-template#
OneOf
string
string
object
object
502

Bad Gateway

object

The request could not be completed because a service it depends on failed. For write operations the content was not modified.

status
number
Example502
error
string
ExampleBad Gateway
message
string
ExampleThe request could not be completed because a service it depends on is unavailable. Please retry shortly.
default

An unexpected error has occurred

When any default error occurs it may be a system failure and persistent errors may require support.

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id
string
ExampleUNIQUEREFERENCE111000
timestamp
string
Example2020-03-09T22:18:26.625Z
eventType
string
Valid values[ "user_joined", "user_updated", "user_suspended" ]
message
object

The server is unable to process the request

status
number
Example500
error
string
ExampleInternal Server Error