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URL structure

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Supported methods and overview

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Detailed description

This API endpoint serves a number of purposes:
  • Adds a new Covata user to the Covata Platform.
    Note: Use this endpoint to add a new Covata user with any valid (combination of) role(s), with the exception of Covata users with the Ad hoc role (whose accounts are created when a user with the Originator role shares their content with someone whose email address has not yet been registered with an existing user account on the Covata Platform).
  • Retrieves a list of field information for all existing users on the Covata Platform. The list of users returned in the response can be filtered according to users:
    • whose email address, first name or last name contains the string specified in the request,
    • with a specific role, and/or
    • whose accounts are either enabled or disabled.

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Supported roles and conditions

This API endpoint supports the following Covata user roles (as described in the Covata Platform Administrator’s Guide) and conditions: The Covata Platform’s resources available to one of these Covata users (above) is determined by the access token passed in the header of requests to this endpoint.

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Required headers

The appropriate access token as the Bearer token:
  • Authorization: Bearer a1b2c3d4-e5f6-g7h8-i9j0-k1l2m3n4o5p6
The following header is required if the body of the request has a JSON object:
  • Content-Type: application/json

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Required parameters on POST

The following required parameters must be sent in the body of the POST request, as individual members of a JSON object:
  • email - .
  • roles - ROLE_SYSTEM_ADMIN, ROLE_COLLABORATOR, ROLE_ORIGINATOR, ROLE_ADHOC_COLLABORATOR or ROLE_USER_ADMIN Example ():

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Optional parameters on POST

The following optional parameters can also be sent in the body of the POST request, each as individual members of the JSON object that includes the Required parameters on POST above:
  • firstName - .
  • forceResetPassword - true or false.
  • lastName - .
  • mobileNumber - .
  • otherName - .
  • planId - . Example ():

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Optional parameters on GET

The following optional parameters can be sent in the URL of the GET request:
  • enabled - true or false.
  • limit - 0 to 100 (default is 10).
  • offset - default is 0.
  • orderBy - ASC or DESC (default is ASC).
  • searchColumn - all, email, firstName, lastName, roles or admin.
  • searchText - when searchColumn is admin, specify yes or no. Otherwise, search on any text value in the column(s) specified by searchColumn.
  • sortBy - default is userId. Example ():

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Returns from a POST request

A JSON-formatted response containing the following members:
  • email - .
  • firstName - .
  • lastName - .
  • otherName - .
  • mobileNumber - .
  • plan - .
    • id - .
    • name - .
    • description - .
    • quota - .
    • default - .
  • enabled - .
  • accountNonLocked - .
  • accountType - .
  • numFailedLogins - .
  • roles - .
  • id - .
  • planId - . Example (response from …):

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Returns from a GET request

A JSON-formatted response containing the following members:
  • items - .
    • email - .
    • firstName - .
    • lastName - .
    • otherName - .
    • mobileNumber - .
    • plan - .
      • id - .
      • name - .
      • description - .
      • quota - .
      • default - .
    • enabled - .
    • accountNonLocked - .
    • numFailedLogins - .
    • id - .
    • accountType - .
    • roles - .
    • planId - .
  • count - .
  • offset - . Example (response from …):