# Availability routes: update, delete

URL: /code/api/availability/records-update · Id: `page:code/api/availability/records-update`

> The Availability Verbs update, delete as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Availability](/business/nouns/availability), one group of [Availability routes](/code/api/availability).

### Availability.update
Changes the given properties of an Availability. [Verb page](/business/nouns/availability/update?interface=api).

```text
PATCH /{namespace}/availabilities/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits `Availability.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Availability. |
| `worker` | [Worker](/business/nouns/worker) | No | Who is booked: a Human, or an Agent that takes calls. |
| `hours` | `json` | No | Open hours by weekday, in its time zone. |
| `timezone` | `string` | No | An IANA time zone. |
| `calendars` | `string[]` | No | Connected calendars whose busy times it subtracts. |
| `buffer` | `integer` | No | Minutes kept free before and after each Meeting. |
| `notice` | `integer` | No | The fewest hours ahead a Meeting can be booked. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `availability` | [Availability](/business/nouns/availability) | Yes | The Availability. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/availabilities/availability_8Zj0a7vvRl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"worker":"worker_whZFpOKWIV"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "availability": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/availabilities/availability_8Zj0a7vvRl",
    "$type": "Availability",
    "worker": "worker_whZFpOKWIV",
    "hours": {
      "mon": [
        "09:00-12:00"
      ],
      "thu": [
        "13:00-17:00"
      ]
    },
    "timezone": "America/Chicago"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Availability.update",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```

### Availability.delete
Deletes an Availability: a soft delete that keeps its history, undone by `Thing.restore`. [Verb page](/business/nouns/availability/delete?interface=api).

```text
DELETE /{namespace}/availabilities/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Emits `Availability.deleted`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Availability. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `availability` | [Availability](/business/nouns/availability) | Yes | The Availability. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X DELETE https://api.sb/leaseline.app/availabilities/availability_8Zj0a7vvRl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "availability": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/availabilities/availability_8Zj0a7vvRl",
    "$type": "Availability",
    "worker": "worker_whZFpOKWIV",
    "hours": {
      "mon": [
        "09:00-12:00"
      ],
      "thu": [
        "13:00-17:00"
      ]
    },
    "timezone": "America/Chicago"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Availability.delete",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```