Managing Organizations

The Organizations APIs are used to set up the organizational hierarchy to define which business objects users can access.

For a sample postman collection of the Organizations APIs, click the link below:

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Creating a new organization

The POST /external/organizations endpoint can be used to create a new organization in your account.

Note: If multiple organizations have their ExternalId as null and if a new organization is created with parentExternalId as null, the new organization is created as a child of the root organization.

Example Request:

POST https://trial.onetrust.com/api/access/v1/external/organizations/

Request Body:

{
  "externalId": "New_Org_Id",
  "parentExternalId": "null",
  "name": "New_Org",
  "defaultApprover": "[email protected]",
  "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
  "description": "This is a new Org"
}

Response Body:

{
  "externalId": "New_Org_Id",
  "parentExternalId": null,
  "name": "New_Org",
  "defaultApprover": "[email protected]",
  "defaultLanguageCode": "en",
  "description": "This is a new Org"
}

Retrieving organization details

The GET /external/organizations endpoint can be used to obtain complete details of the organizations in your account.

Example Request:

GET https://trial.onetrust.com/api/access/v1/external/organizations

Response Body:

{
  "externalId": null,
  "parentExternalId": null,
  "name": "testuser",
  "defaultApprover": "[email protected]",
  "defaultLanguageCode": "en-us",
  "description": null,
  "children": [
    {
      "externalId": null,
      "parentExternalId": null,
      "name": "Org 1",
      "defaultApprover": "[email protected]",
      "defaultLanguageCode": "en-us",
      "description": null,
      "children": []
    },
    {
      "externalId": null,
      "parentExternalId": null,
      "name": "Org5",
      "defaultApprover": "[email protected]",
      "defaultLanguageCode": "en-us",
      "description": null,
      "children": []
    }
  ]
}

Updating an existing organization

The PUT /external/organizations endpoint can be used to update an existing organization in your account.

In the example below, the update Example Request would update the name, defaultLanguageCode, and description parameters of the organization with the externalId "New_Org_Id".

Example Request:

PUT https://trial.onetrust.com/api/access/v1/external/organizations/New_Org_Id

Request Body:

{
  "name": "New_Org2",
  "defaultLanguageCode": "de",
  "description": "This is the updated new Org"
}

Response Body:

null

Deleting an existing organization

The DELETE /external/organizations endpoint can be used to delete an existing organization in your account.

Example Request:

DELETE https://trial.onetrust.com/api/access/v1/external/organizations/New_Org_Id?targetExternalId=New_Org_Id3

Response Body:

null