Update department

Update an existing department

Parameters

Function UpdateDepartment(Val URL, Val DepartmentID, Val Name = "", Val ParentID = "", Val HeadID = "", Val Token = "") Export

Parameter	CLI option	Type	Required	Description
URL	--url	String	✔	URL of webhook or a Bitrix24 domain, when token used
DepartmentID	--depid	String, Number	✔	Department ID
Name	--title	String	✖	Department name
ParentID	--parentid	String, Number	✖	ID of parent department
HeadID	--headid	String, Number	✖	ID of department manager
Token	--token	String	✖	Access token, when app auth method used

Returns

Map Of KeyAndValue - serialized JSON of answer from Bitrix24 API

Advanced call ?

Parameter	Description
proxy	InternetProxy or a structure with fields Protocol, Host, Port, User, Password, UseOSAuthentication
timeout	Request execution timeout
adv_response	Formats the response as a complete HTTP structure with fields code, body, and headers
retries	Number of HTTP request send attempts on 5** status codes or internal client errors
dontwait	Creates a background job and returns its data (for 1C and OneScript only)

tip

Method at API documentation: department.update

1C:Enterprise/OneScript code example

    URL = "https://b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by/rest/1/av5...";

    DepartmentID = "2962";
    ParentID     = 7;

    Result = OPI_Bitrix24.UpdateDepartment(URL, DepartmentID, , ParentID);

    URL   = "b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by";
    Token = "a5b00469006e9f06006b12e400000001000...";

    DepartmentID = "2964";
    Name         = "New department";
    ParentID     = 1;
    HeadID       = 10;

    Result = OPI_Bitrix24.UpdateDepartment(URL
        , DepartmentID
        , Name
        , ParentID
        , HeadID
        , Token);

Bash

    oint bitrix24 UpdateDepartment \
      --url "b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by" \
      --depid 4342 \
      --title "New department" \
      --parentid 1 \
      --headid 10 \
      --token "***"

CMD/Bat

    oint bitrix24 UpdateDepartment ^
      --url "b24-ar17wx.bitrix24.by" ^
      --depid 4342 ^
      --title "New department" ^
      --parentid 1 ^
      --headid 10 ^
      --token "***"

Result

{
 "result": true,
 "time": {
  "start": 1784481252,
  "finish": 1784481252.46841,
  "duration": 0.468410015106201,
  "processing": 0,
  "date_start": "2026-07-19T17:14:12+00:00",
  "date_finish": "2026-07-19T17:14:12+00:00",
  "operating_reset_at": 1784481852,
  "operating": 0.17632007598877
 }
}