# SSO Connection routes: update

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

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

Reference for [SSO Connection](/business/nouns/sso-connection), one group of [SSO Connection routes](/code/api/sso-connection).

### SSOConnection.update
Changes the given properties of a SSO Connection. [Verb page](/business/nouns/sso-connection/update?interface=api).

```text
PATCH /{namespace}/sso-connections/{id}
```

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

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the SSO Connection. |
| `protocol` | `string` | No | How sign-in is asserted: `saml` or `oidc`. |
| `certificateExpiresAt` | `datetime` | No | When the signing certificate expires; the Customer’s admin hears 30 days before. |
| `testedAt` | `datetime` | No | When the Customer’s admin last completed a test sign-in. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ssoConnection` | [SSO Connection](/business/nouns/sso-connection) | Yes | The SSO Connection. |

**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/sso-connections/sso_gFlPhZJ7A7 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"protocol":"saml"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "ssoConnection": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/sso-connections/sso_gFlPhZJ7A7",
    "$type": "SSOConnection",
    "protocol": "saml",
    "state": "draft"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "SSOConnection.update",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```