Documentation Experience Platform Destinations Guide

Update a destination configuration

Last update: April 2, 2025

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This page exemplifies the API request and payload that you can use to update an existing destination configuration, using the /authoring/destinations API endpoint.

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Any update operation on productized/public destinations is visible only after you use the publishing API and submit the update for Adobe review.

For a detailed description of the capabilities of a destination configuration, read the following articles:

IMPORTANT

All parameter names and values supported by Destination SDK are case sensitive. To avoid case sensitivity errors, please use the parameters names and values exactly as shown in the documentation.

Getting started with destination configuration API operations

Before continuing, please review the getting started guide for important information that you need to know in order to successfully make calls to the API, including how to obtain the required destination authoring permission and required headers.

Update a destination configuration

You can update an existing destination configuration by making a PUT request to the /authoring/destinations endpoint with the updated payload.

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API endpoint: platform.adobe.io/data/core/activation/authoring/destinations

To obtain an existing destination configuration and its corresponding {INSTANCE_ID}, see the article about retrieving a destination configuration.

API format

PUT /authoring/destinations/{INSTANCE_ID}

Parameter

Description

{INSTANCE_ID}

The ID of the destination configuration that you want to update. To obtain an existing destination configuration and its corresponding {INSTANCE_ID}, see Retrieve a destination configuration.

Request

The following request updates the destination we created in this example with different filenameConfig options.

curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/activation/authoring/destinations/{INSTANCE_ID} \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
 -d '
{
   "name":"Amazon S3 destination with predefined CSV formatting options",
   "description":"Amazon S3 destination with predefined CSV formatting options",
   "status":"TEST",
   "customerAuthenticationConfigurations":[
      {
         "authType":"S3"
      }
   ],
   "customerEncryptionConfigurations":[

   ],
   "customerDataFields":[
      {
         "name":"bucket",
         "title":"Enter the name of your Amazon S3 bucket",
         "description":"Amazon S3 bucket name",
         "type":"string",
         "isRequired":true,
         "readOnly":false,
         "hidden":false
      },
      {
         "name":"path",
         "title":"Enter the path to your S3 bucket folder",
         "description":"Enter the path to your S3 bucket folder",
         "type":"string",
         "isRequired":true,
         "pattern":"^[A-Za-z]+$",
         "readOnly":false,
         "hidden":false
      },
      {
         "name":"compression",
         "title":"Compression format",
         "description":"Select the desired file compression format.",
         "type":"string",
         "isRequired":true,
         "readOnly":false,
         "enum":[
            "SNAPPY",
            "GZIP",
            "DEFLATE",
            "NONE"
         ]
      },
      {
         "name":"fileType",
         "title":"File type",
         "description":"Select the exported file type.",
         "type":"string",
         "isRequired":true,
         "readOnly":false,
         "hidden":false,
         "enum":[
            "csv",
            "json",
            "parquet"
         ],
         "default":"csv"
      }
   ],
   "uiAttributes":{
      "documentationLink":"https://www.adobe.com/go/destinations-amazon-s3-en",
      "category":"cloudStorage",
      "icon":{
         "key":"amazonS3"
      },
      "connectionType":"S3",
      "frequency":"Batch"
   },
   "destinationDelivery":[
      {
         "deliveryMatchers":[
            {
               "type":"SOURCE",
               "value":[
                  "batch"
               ]
            }
         ],
         "authenticationRule":"CUSTOMER_AUTHENTICATION",
         "destinationServerId":"{{destinationServerId}}"
      }
   ],
   "schemaConfig":{
      "profileRequired":true,
      "segmentRequired":true,
      "identityRequired":true
   },
   "batchConfig":{
      "allowMandatoryFieldSelection":true,
      "allowDedupeKeyFieldSelection":true,
      "defaultExportMode":"DAILY_FULL_EXPORT",
      "allowedExportMode":[
         "DAILY_FULL_EXPORT",
         "FIRST_FULL_THEN_INCREMENTAL"
      ],
      "allowedScheduleFrequency":[
         "DAILY",
         "EVERY_3_HOURS",
         "EVERY_6_HOURS",
         "ONCE"
      ],
      "defaultFrequency":"DAILY",
      "defaultStartTime":"00:00",
      "filenameConfig":{
         "allowedFilenameAppendOptions":[
            "SEGMENT_NAME",
            "DESTINATION_INSTANCE_NAME",
            "ORGANIZATION_NAME",
            "SANDBOX_NAME",
            "DATETIME",
            "CUSTOM_TEXT"
         ],
         "defaultFilenameAppendOptions":[
            "DATETIME"
         ],
         "defaultFilename":"%DESTINATION%_%SEGMENT_ID%_%DESTINATION_INSTANCE_ID%,"
      },
      "backfillHistoricalProfileData":true
   }
}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 with the details of your updated destination configuration.

API error handling

Destination SDK API endpoints follow the general Experience Platform API error message principles. Refer to API status codes and request header errors in the Experience Platform troubleshooting guide.

Next steps

After reading this document, you now know how to update a destination configuration through the Destination SDK /authoring/destinations API endpoint.

To learn more about what you can do with this endpoint, see the following articles:

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