# Updating Hubspot fields from workflow

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-hubspot-fields-from-workflow/73411>\
**Category:** CMS Development\
**Tags:** professional\
**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-hubspot-fields-from-workflow/73411 "2023-01-20T17:01:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![tmcmillan99](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tmcmillan99/32/93181_2.png) [@tmcmillan99](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tmcmillan99)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-hubspot-fields-from-workflow/73411/1 "2023-01-20T17:01:03Z")

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We have a workflow that is copying contact properties to a custom object. Is there a way for the workflow to update either of the following Hubspot fields?

Created by user ID

Updated by user ID

Thanks,

Terry McMillan

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**Author:** ![Jaycee\_Lewis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jaycee_lewis/32/61352_2.png) [@Jaycee\_Lewis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jaycee_Lewis)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/updating-hubspot-fields-from-workflow/73411/2 "2023-01-20T18:56:14Z")

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Hi, @tmcmillan99 I did a quick search on both of these properties for the Contact object and my custom object —Boats. Both _Created by user ID_ and _Updated by user ID_ are set as read-only. There isn’t a way to override this behaviour for properties used by the system. It’s likely the answer you don’t want, and I don’t want to have you looking for an option that doesn’t exist.

Example from the Properties API endpoint — [Read a property](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/properties).

**GET** `/crm/v3/properties/{objectType}/{propertyName}`

Request:

```lia-code-sample
curl --request GET \
 --url 'https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/properties/2-7913954/hs_updated_by_user_id?archived=false' \
 --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'

```

Response:

```lia-code-sample
HTTP 200

{
 "name": "hs_updated_by_user_id",
 "label": "Updated by user ID",
 "type": "number",
 "fieldType": "number",
 "description": "The user that last updated this object. This value is automatically set by HubSpot and may not be modified.",
 "groupName": "boat_information",
 "options": [],
 "displayOrder": -1,
 "calculated": false,
 "externalOptions": false,
 "hasUniqueValue": false,
 "hidden": false,
 "hubspotDefined": true,
 "modificationMetadata": {
 "archivable": true,
 "readOnlyDefinition": true,
 "readOnlyValue": true
 },
 "formField": false
}

```

Best,

Jaycee