OscarD.43373 (Customer) asked a question.
My goal is to delete the current value from the "Location" field in a Users profile account. This can be done relatively quickly manually if it was a couple of users, but in this case, I would have to do it on four hundred-plus User profiles. Any ideas on how I can execute this action in bulk, so I don't have to spend hours doing it one by one?
Hi @OscarD.43373 (Customer),
Thank you for posting on the Okta community page!
I have done some research and you could do this by using the update user API call along with a script, that would run for each account that needs to have the value of the "Location" attribute removed. I have provided below a documentation about the API call mentioned previously:
Additionally, I managed to find the below community question that seems related to your inquiry and that provides another alternative in which you could bulk delete the current value of the "Location" attribute:
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Hi @OscarD.43373 (Customer),
Thank you for posting on the Okta community page!
I have done some research and you could do this by using the update user API call along with a script, that would run for each account that needs to have the value of the "Location" attribute removed. I have provided below a documentation about the API call mentioned previously:
Additionally, I managed to find the below community question that seems related to your inquiry and that provides another alternative in which you could bulk delete the current value of the "Location" attribute:
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