Change Custom Object status property name

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Hey everyone, small question my company has been having that we feel our current resource may not have the answer on.

We had a developer build out a custom object for us (Distributors) so that we could use the kanban view to track progression through phases. The issue, however, is that the columns in the kanban correspond to a property called “Distributor status” that is created when making the object. We want to be able to change this to “Distributor Phase” since we use “Distributor Status” for more granular updates on where they are within each phase of the process. Is there any way a developer would be capable of patching this property name via API, or is it something hard-stuck as-is?

Distributor status property.PNG

Additionally/similarly, if we wanted to change the name of the object itself is this something that could be patched via API? I’ve seen some people in this forum say they have done it despite hubspot saying you can’t, however I dont know if changing it would break something else in the system like associations.

Thanks to anyone able to help!

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Hi @ESeligman,

Updating a custom object is essentially the same process as creating one, but instead of using the “Create a new schema” endpoint (i.e. POST /crm/v3/schemas) you must use the “Update a schema” endpoint (i.e. PATCH /crm/v3/schemas/:objectType).

Here’s a link to the documentation.

I have successfully updated a custom object name in the past as well as other schema, such as searchability.

Josh