# PATCH /api/v2/work-types/{work_type}

Update a work type

- MCP id: work-types.update
- Scope: api:write:work_types
- Permission: work_types::update
- Needs the sprints feature on your organisation
- Rate cost: 1 unit, write bucket. A write costs the same whatever `view` you ask for.
- Cache-Control: private, no-store

Partially updates a work-item type: absent keys are untouched, an empty body is rejected.

`order` is not accepted. Send `If-Match` with the `ETag` from your last read to detect a concurrent edit, which answers `412`. Treat it as best-effort only: this resource carries no concurrency token, and `updated_at` is second-precision, so two writes inside the same second are indistinguishable.

## Parameters
- work_type (integer, path): The WorkType's numeric id.
- view (string, optional): Which field set to render.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.
- If-Match (header, optional): The ETag a write is conditional on. A stale validator is 412 precondition-failed.

## Request body
- name (string ≤ 255, optional): Work-type name as shown in the UI, e.g. `Bug`.
- color (string ≤ 255, optional): Six-digit hex colour, e.g. `#6b7280`. A stored value that is not six-digit hex reads back as `#6b7280`, so writing this field back unchanged replaces the malformed original.
- icon (string ≤ 255, optional): Icon name, e.g. `heroicon-o-rectangle-stack`: not a URL and not markup.

Unknown keys are refused with `422` validation-failed, naming the key.

## Response 200
- id (integer, required): Unique identifier.
- name (string ≤ 255, required): Work-type name as shown in the UI, e.g. `Bug`.
- color (string ≤ 255, required): Six-digit hex colour, e.g. `#6b7280`. A stored value that is not six-digit hex reads back as `#6b7280`, so writing this field back unchanged replaces the malformed original.
- icon (string ≤ 255, required): Icon name, e.g. `heroicon-o-rectangle-stack`: not a URL and not markup.
- order (integer, required, server-assigned): Display position; set by dragging in plnnrly and not writable. API-created types are created at 0 and fall back to the id tiebreaker.
- created_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Creation timestamp.
- updated_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Last-write timestamp; use for incremental sync.
- links (WorkTypeLinks, required)
  - self (url, required): The canonical URI of this record.

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 412 precondition-failed: Precondition failed.
- 415 unsupported-media-type: Unsupported media type.
- 422 unprocessable-relationship | validation-failed: Unprocessable content.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -X PATCH \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/work-types/1' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'If-Match: *' \
  -d '{
    "color": "#ef4444"
  }'
```