1. Teams
Handwrite Team
  • Handwrite Team
    • Teams
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}
      • README — PATCH /api/v1/orgs/{id}
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}
      • Your teams and classes
        GET
      • Create a team or class
        POST
      • One of your organisations
        GET
      • Rename a team (owner or admin)
        PATCH
      • Delete with its memberships, invitations, documents and shares (owner)
        DELETE
    • Membership
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/invitations
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/invitations/{inviteId}/accept
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/invitations/{inviteId}/decline
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members
      • README — PATCH /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/leave
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/invitations
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/invitations
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/invitations/{inviteId}
      • Organisation invitations to your verified email
      • Join with the invited role
      • Decline an organisation invitation
      • Members (students see teachers and themselves)
      • Add a person (managers)
      • Change a role; owner transfers a team
      • Remove a member (managers) or yourself
      • Leave (not the owner)
      • Pending email invitations (managers)
      • Invite an email (managers)
      • Withdraw an invitation (managers)
    • Documents
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/documents
      • Documents the organisation owns
    • Billing and usage
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/billing
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/usage
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/usage/live
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/usage
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/insights
      • Plan, status and seats per role (billing.read)
      • Usage per day and member (admins, managers, billing)
      • The last 60 minutes per member (admins, managers, billing)
      • One member's usage (usage.read, or yourself)
      • How people collaborate on the org's documents
    • Policies
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/policies
      • README — PUT /api/v1/orgs/{id}/policies
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/policy
      • README — PUT /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/policy
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/policy
      • Org-wide policy rules (policies.read)
      • Replace the org-wide rules (admins)
      • A member's override and what applies to them
      • Replace a member's override (admins; managers for members)
      • Remove a member's override
    • Managed tokens
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/tokens
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/tokens
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/tokens/{tokenId}
      • Managed tokens issued to a member (tokens.read)
      • Issue a managed fine-grained token (admins, billing)
      • Revoke a managed token (admins, billing)
    • Guides
      • Start here — Team app integration
      • Team API specification notes
      • Team socket specification notes
      • Team live socket — README
      • Team roles and access model
      • Team credentials and developer setup
      • Team SSO and portal workflows
      • Team policies, plans and seats
      • Team usage and collaboration insights
      • Team webhook delivery — README
  1. Teams

Rename a team (owner or admin)

PATCH
/api/v1/orgs/{id}
Team authority: Team owner or admin (org.rename).
App integration: Renames the team only. Managers do not have org.rename despite older summary wording. Reflect the returned name and updatedAt after success.

Request

Authorization
Bearer Token
Provide your bearer token in the
Authorization
header when making requests to protected resources.
Example:
Authorization: Bearer ********************
or
OAuth 2.0
Authorization Code
Add the parameter
Authorization
to Headers
,whose value is to concatenate the Token after the Bearer.
Example:
Authorization: Bearer ********************
Authorize URL: https://handwrites.io/oauth/authorize
Token URL: https://handwrites.io/api/oauth/token
Refresh URL: https://handwrites.io/api/oauth/token
Scopes:
orgs:manage-Create, rename and delete teams and classrooms, manage members and invitations, join and leave
or
Path Params

Body Params application/jsonRequired

Examples

Responses

🟢200
application/json
The organisation.
Headers

Bodyapplication/json

🟠400BadRequest
🟠401Unauthorized
🟠403Forbidden
🟠404NotFound
🟠429TooManyRequests
🔴500ServerError
Request Request Example
Shell
JavaScript
Java
Swift
curl --location --request PATCH '/api/v1/orgs/' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "name": "string"
}'
Response Response Example
200 - Example 1
{
    "id": "string",
    "kind": "team",
    "principal": "user:3f2b…",
    "name": "string",
    "owner": "user:3f2b…",
    "role": "owner",
    "createdAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22.123Z",
    "updatedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22.123Z"
}
Modified at 2026-10-26 13:12:30
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