Update Record

Update Record Details

To update a record's core properties, use the editTodo mutation:

mutation UpdateRecordDetails {
  editTodo(
    input: {
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      todoListId: "RECORD LIST ID TO MOVE THE RECORD TO"
      position: "NEW RECORD POSITION IN NUMBER"
      title: "NEW RECORD TITLE"
      html: "NEW RECORD DESCRIPTION IN HTML (MUST MATCH TEXT)"
      text: "NEW RECORD DESCRIPTION IN TEXT (MUST MATCH HTML)"
      startedAt: "NEW RECORD DUE DATE (START)"
      duedAt: "NEW RECORD DUE DATE (END)"
      color: "RECORD COLOR CODE"
    }
  ) {
    id
    title
    position
    html
    text
    color
  }
}

Input Field Reference

Field	Type	Description
todoId	String	(Required) The ID of the record to update
todoListId	String	New list ID if moving the record
position	Integer	New position in the list
title	String	Updated record title
html/text	String	Updated description (must match in both fields)
startedAt/duedAt	DateTime	Updated start/end dates in ISO 8601 format
color	String	Color code from available options

Color Options

// Light theme colors
["#ffc2d4", "#ed8285", "#ffb55e", "#ffe885", "#ccf07d", 
 "#91e38c", "#a1f7fa", "#91cfff", "#c29ee0", "#e8bd91"]

// Dark theme colors  
["#ff8ebe", "#ff4b4b", "#ff9e4b", "#ffdc6b", "#b4e051",
 "#66d37e", "#4fd2ff", "#4a9fff", "#a17ee8", "#e89e64"]

Update Custom Fields

To update custom field values, use the setTodoCustomField mutation with field-specific parameters:

Text-based Fields

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      text: "VALUE"
    }
  ) {
    success
  }
}

Applies to: TEXT_SINGLE, TEXT_MULTI, URL, EMAIL

Numeric Fields

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID" 
      number: "NUMERIC_VALUE"
    }
  ) {
    success
  }
}

Applies to: NUMBER, CURRENCY, PERCENT, RATING

Selection Fields

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      customFieldOptionIds: ["OPTION_ID_1", "OPTION_ID_2"]
    }
  ) {
    success
  }
}

Applies to: SELECT_SINGLE, SELECT_MULTI

Specialized Fields

Phone Numbers:

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      text: "+33642526644"
      regionCode: "FR"
    }
  )
}

Countries:

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      countryCodes: ["AF", "AL", "DZ"]
      text: "Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria"
    }
  )
}

Location:

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      latitude: 42.2923323
      longitude: 12.126621199999999
      text: "Via Cassia, Querce d'Orlando, Capranica, Italy"
    }
  )
}

Checkbox:

mutation {
  setTodoCustomField(
    input: {
      customFieldId: "YOUR CUSTOM FIELD ID"
      todoId: "YOUR RECORD ID"
      checked: true
    }
  )
}

Notes

Custom field IDs can be found using the list custom fields query
Phone numbers must be in E.164 format when using the API directly
Location fields are best managed through the Blue app interface
Always use the same values for html and text fields when updating descriptions

Assign Record

Learn how to assign records to users using the Blue API.

Copy Record

Create a copy of an existing record while preserving specific data elements.