# Availability commands: update, delete

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

> The Availability Verbs update, delete as CLI commands, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

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

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

```text
npx startup-builder do Availability.update --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

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
npx startup-builder do Availability.update --json '{"id":"availability_8Zj0a7vvRl","worker":"worker_whZFpOKWIV"}'
```

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

```text
npx startup-builder do Availability.delete --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

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
npx startup-builder do Availability.delete --json '{"id":"availability_8Zj0a7vvRl"}'
```