Set the hours of an absence registration

Sets an existing absence registration to a number of hours and minutes.

Changes the absence to an hours-based duration (TimeTrackingFormat Hours) using Hours and Minutes (Minutes is applied last and wins). Optionally moves it to another Date and replaces the Comment (omitted Comment = cleared). Absence code, employee and additional comment are kept.

Not for:

Project or travel time → POST /v1/time-registration/update-time

Behaviour:

Idempotent.
Safe to retry.
Side effect: Same as PUT update: overwrites Created/CreatedBy; rejected → …RejectedAndResolved; TimeRegistrationUpdated event. Call first: GET /v1/time-registration/{timeRegistrationID}

Next: GET /v1/time-registration/{timeRegistrationID}

See also: POST /v1/time-registration/update-half-or-full-day-absence

curl -X POST "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
  "TimeRegistrationID": 123,
  "Type": 42,
  "Hours": 3.14,
  "Minutes": 42,
  "Date": "2024-12-25T10:00:00Z",
  "Comment": "example_string",
  "AdditionalComment": "example_string"
}'

import requests
import json

url = "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence"
headers = {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}
data = {
  "TimeRegistrationID": 123,
  "Type": 42,
  "Hours": 3.14,
  "Minutes": 42,
  "Date": "2024-12-25T10:00:00Z",
  "Comment": "example_string",
  "AdditionalComment": "example_string"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
},
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "TimeRegistrationID": 123,
  "Type": 42,
  "Hours": 3.14,
  "Minutes": 42,
  "Date": "2024-12-25T10:00:00Z",
  "Comment": "example_string",
  "AdditionalComment": "example_string"
})
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
)

func main() {
    data := []byte(`{
  "TimeRegistrationID": 123,
  "Type": 42,
  "Hours": 3.14,
  "Minutes": 42,
  "Date": "2024-12-25T10:00:00Z",
  "Comment": "example_string",
  "AdditionalComment": "example_string"
}`)

    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence", bytes.NewBuffer(data))
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    fmt.Println("Response Status:", resp.Status)
}

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
request.body = '{
  "TimeRegistrationID": 123,
  "Type": 42,
  "Hours": 3.14,
  "Minutes": 42,
  "Date": "2024-12-25T10:00:00Z",
  "Comment": "example_string",
  "AdditionalComment": "example_string"
}'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.body

"null"

{
  "Code": 200,
  "Message": "Invalid model state error.",
  "Details": [
    "…"
  ],
  "Parameters": "…",
  "Url": "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence"
}

{
  "Code": 102,
  "Message": "Unprocessable entity.",
  "Details": [
    {
      "Message": "…",
      "ErrorCode": 37982
    }
  ],
  "Parameters": "…",
  "Url": "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence"
}

{
  "Code": 100,
  "Message": "Unknown error occur in system, please contact system administrator.",
  "Details": [],
  "Parameters": "…",
  "Url": "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/api/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence"
}

POST

/v1/time-registration/update-hours-absence

POST

Base URLstring

Target server for requests. Edit to use your own host.

Bearer Token

OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp). The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user.

Content-Typestring

Required

The media type of the request body

Options: application/json

TimeRegistrationIDinteger

Required

Integer ID of the absence registration to change. Identifier of this object, unique per TimeLog site. Validated as non-zero on update-half-or-full-day-absence and update-hours-absence (400). update-full-day-absence has NO validator: 0 or an unknown ID gives HTTP 500 (Code 100). The registration is not checked to be an absence.

Format: int32

Typeinteger

Whether the absence covers a half or a full day of the employee's normal working time. The NotNull rule cannot fail on a non-nullable enum: omitting Type means HalfDay (0). Allowed values: | Value | Name | Meaning | |---|---|---| | 0 | HalfDay | Half of the employee's normal working time on that date. | | 1 | FullDay | The employee's full normal working time on that date. |

Options: 0, 1

Hoursnumber

New absence duration in decimal hours. Unit: hours (decimal) The validator's NotNull rule cannot fail on a non-nullable double; Hours = 0 passes validation (it then meets the zero-duration rule 37982 unless Minutes is set).

Format: double

Minutesinteger

Absence duration in minutes. Unit: minutes - always — Applied after Hours (TimeTrackingFormat Hours), so Minutes wins over Hours.

Format: int32

Datestring

Moves the absence to another date.

Format: date-time

Commentstring

Free-text comment.

AdditionalCommentstring

Accepted by the model but not used. - always — The stored additional comment is kept; the sent value is discarded.

Request Preview

Response

Response will appear here after sending the request

Authentication

header

Authorizationstring

Required

Bearer token. OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp).

The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user.

Body

application/json

TimeRegistrationIDinteger

Required

Integer ID of the absence registration to change.

Identifier of this object, unique per TimeLog site.

Validated as non-zero on update-half-or-full-day-absence and update-hours-absence (400). update-full-day-absence has NO validator: 0 or an unknown ID gives HTTP 500 (Code 100). The registration is not checked to be an absence.

Typeinteger

Whether the absence covers a half or a full day of the employee's normal working time.

The NotNull rule cannot fail on a non-nullable enum: omitting Type means HalfDay (0).

Allowed values:

Value	Name	Meaning
`0`	HalfDay	Half of the employee's normal working time on that date.
`1`	FullDay	The employee's full normal working time on that date.

Allowed values:01

Hoursnumber

New absence duration in decimal hours.

Unit: hours (decimal)

The validator's NotNull rule cannot fail on a non-nullable double; Hours = 0 passes validation (it then meets the zero-duration rule 37982 unless Minutes is set).

Minutesinteger

Absence duration in minutes.

Unit: minutes