> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.msportal.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Update standards category

> Update any editable category field. null clears description, icon or Planner type. Setting requireOneOf to true also makes every item in the category optional so the category acts as one grouped requirement.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json patch /api/public/v1/standards/categories/{id}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: MSPortal Public API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Public API for MSPortal - provides programmatic access to tenant data.


    ## Authentication


    All endpoints require authentication via API key passed as a Bearer token:


    ```

    Authorization: Bearer <your-api-key>

    ```


    API keys can be created in the MSPortal dashboard under Settings →
    Integrations → API Access.


    **Important:** Do not include cookies in API requests. The public API uses
    stateless authentication only.


    ## Scopes


    API keys are granted specific scopes that determine what operations they can
    perform. Each endpoint documents its required scope(s).


    ## Rate Limiting


    API calls are rate limited per API key. Rate limit information is returned
    in response headers:


    - `X-RateLimit-Limit`: Maximum requests per minute

    - `X-RateLimit-Remaining`: Remaining requests in current window

    - `X-RateLimit-Reset`: When the rate limit resets (ISO 8601)


    ## Request ID


    All responses include an `X-Request-Id` header for debugging and support.
    You can also pass your own `X-Request-Id` header to correlate requests.
  contact:
    name: MSPortal Support
    email: support@msportal.ai
  license:
    name: Proprietary
servers:
  - url: https://app.msportal.ai
    description: Production (US)
  - url: https://eu.msportal.ai
    description: Production (EU)
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Budgets
    description: >-
      Budget management - create, track, and forecast budgets with line items,
      categories, and products
  - name: Calendar
    description: Calendar and meeting management - events, participants, and meeting types
  - name: Companies
    description: Company management endpoints
  - name: Company Users
    description: Company user management - client portal contacts (read-only, paginated)
  - name: Compliance
    description: Compliance check management - runs, assigned checks, and status updates
  - name: Dashboards
    description: Dashboard management - external iframe resources and internal dashboards
  - name: Devices
    description: Device management - inventory, types, and locations
  - name: Goals
    description: Goal management - create, track, and manage goals with tasks and updates
  - name: NPS Surveys
    description: >-
      NPS survey management - Net Promoter Score surveys, responses, and
      analytics
  - name: Reports
    description: >-
      Report management - create, manage, and schedule reports with templates
      and types
  - name: Planner
    description: >-
      Planner item management - tasks, roadmap items, and project planning with
      linked goals, compliance, and projects
  - name: Surveys
    description: >-
      General survey management - multi-question surveys, responses, and
      statistics
  - name: Tickets
    description: Ticket management - view and filter tickets from PSA integrations
  - name: Training
    description: >-
      Training management - courses, enrollments, certificates, and progress
      tracking
  - name: Users
    description: Tenant user management - internal staff and team members (read-only)
  - name: Automation Rules
    description: >-
      Automation rule management - create, configure, and monitor automation
      rules with triggers, conditions, and actions
  - name: Analytics
    description: >-
      Analytics and reporting - company audit data, training analytics, user
      activity, and portfolio metrics
  - name: Client Onboarding
    description: >-
      Client onboarding - portals (phases, tasks, contacts, activation),
      templates, checklist templates, forms and documentation pages
  - name: Backup
    description: >-
      Backup - summaries, protected devices, alerts and SaaS protection (Datto,
      Axcient, Slide, Kaseya)
  - name: Microsoft 365
    description: Microsoft 365 - licenses, users, domains and Secure Score
  - name: Security
    description: >-
      Security - posture summary, EDR incidents, vulnerabilities, email threats,
      firewalls, DNS filtering and security awareness
  - name: Financial
    description: Financial - quotes, invoices and revenue summaries
  - name: Integrations
    description: Integrations - status, sync health, pause and resume (never credentials)
  - name: Documentation
    description: >-
      Documentation - pages, folders and articles synced from Hudu or IT Glue,
      plus built-in pages
  - name: Broadcasts
    description: Broadcasts - emergency broadcasts, recipients and groups
  - name: Notifications
    description: Notifications - the linked user's in-app notifications
  - name: Standards
    description: >-
      Standards - technology standards catalog, service plans, applicability,
      deployment statuses, compliance rollups, white space and costs
  - name: Customer Success
    description: >-
      Customer success - client health scores, trends, benchmarks and Traffic
      Light Reviews
  - name: Tasks
    description: Tasks - the linked user's personal task list
  - name: Tenant Setup
    description: Tenant setup - profile, branding and portal settings (never secrets)
  - name: Roles
    description: Roles - staff and client roles and their permission grants
  - name: Ticket Templates
    description: Ticket templates - reusable ticket definitions
  - name: Readiness
    description: Client readiness - account readiness assessments
  - name: Projects
    description: >-
      Projects - PSA projects with health overlays (deliverables, milestones,
      client actions, weekly updates), phases, tickets, time entries, PSA
      status/owner/priority write-through, ticket notes, task controls, display
      settings and the document library
paths:
  /api/public/v1/standards/categories/{id}:
    patch:
      tags:
        - Standards
      summary: Update standards category
      description: >-
        Update any editable category field. null clears description, icon or
        Planner type. Setting requireOneOf to true also makes every item in the
        category optional so the category acts as one grouped requirement.
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
            description: Standards category ID
          required: true
          description: Standards category ID
          name: id
          in: path
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateStandardCategoryRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Category updated
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/StandardCategorySummary'
                required:
                  - data
        '400':
          description: Validation error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '403':
          description: >-
            Forbidden - missing scope (standards.write) or the linked user lacks
            the standards permission
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '404':
          description: Category or planner type not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '409':
          description: A category with this name already exists
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    UpdateStandardCategoryRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          maxLength: 100
        description:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          maxLength: 500
          description: null clears
        icon:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          maxLength: 50
          description: Heroicon component name used by the Standards UI; null clears
        plannerItemTypeId:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: uuid
          description: >-
            Planner type applied when standards in this category sync to
            Planner; null clears
        requireOneOf:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            When true, deploying any one item satisfies the category and every
            item is made optional
        sortOrder:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
          description: Zero-based display order
      description: Only provided fields change; at least one is required.
    StandardCategorySummary:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        icon:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: Heroicon component name used by the Standards UI
        plannerItemTypeId:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: uuid
          description: Planner type applied when standards in this category sync to Planner
        requireOneOf:
          type: boolean
          description: Deploying any one item satisfies the category
        sortOrder:
          type: integer
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - description
        - icon
        - plannerItemTypeId
        - requireOneOf
        - sortOrder
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error message
        requestId:
          type: string
          description: Request correlation ID
        details:
          nullable: true
          description: Additional error details
        code:
          type: string
          description: Error code
      required:
        - error
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API Key
      description: >-
        Use your API key as a Bearer token. API keys can be generated in
        Settings → Integrations → API Access.

````

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