Remove all of an employee's competences

Permanently deletes every competence of one employee, or every competence of one competence group.

Hard delete of the employee's competence rows — all of them, or with groupId > 0 only those whose competence belongs to that group. The call reaches this action only with userId in the query: without it the request falls through to DELETE /employee-competences/{id} and is rejected as "The value 'bulk' is not valid for Int32.".

Use it to:

Reset an employee's skills profile before a full re-import
Clear one competence group for an employee (groupId)

Not for:

Removing one competence — DELETE /v2/employee-competences/{id}

Behaviour:

Idempotent.
A repeat deletes nothing more and answers 204.
Safe to retry.
Side effect: Raises CompetenceValueBatchDeleted once, with no domain object (description 'CompetenceValueBatchDeletedForUser<userId>').
On failure: 403: nothing deleted (the check runs first).
Changes are visible to the next read immediately.
Batch: One DELETE statement.

Call first: GET /v1/user

Next: POST /v2/employee-competences/bulk

See also: DELETE /v2/employee-competences/{id}

Not yet documented: examples.

curl -X DELETE "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/employee-competences/bulk?userId=123&groupId=123" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"

import requests
import json

url = "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/employee-competences/bulk?userId=123&groupId=123"
headers = {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}

response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/employee-competences/bulk?userId=123&groupId=123", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {

    req, err := http.NewRequest("DELETE", "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/employee-competences/bulk?userId=123&groupId=123", nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    fmt.Println("Response Status:", resp.Status)
}

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/employee-competences/bulk?userId=123&groupId=123')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.body

{}

{
  "Code": 200,
  "Details": [
    "The value 'bulk' is not valid for Int32."
  ],
  "Message": "Invalid model state error.",
  "Parameters": "id: null",
  "Url": "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/api/v2/employee-competences/bulk"
}

DELETE

/v2/employee-competences/bulk

DELETE

Base URLstring

Target server for requests. Edit to use your own host.

Bearer Token

OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp). The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user. > Not yet documented: how to obtain a token. > Not yet documented: token lifetime.

query

userIdinteger

Required

UserID of the employee. Refers to UserRead.UserID. Look up valid values with GET /v1/user.

Format: int32

query

groupIdinteger

Limit the delete to competences of this group. Omitted, 0 or negative = ALL the employee's competences. An unknown group deletes nothing. Filters on EmployeeCompetenceGroupRead.GroupId (eq). Refers to CompetenceGroupDetailRead.GroupId. Look up valid values with GET /v2/competences/by-group.

Format: int32

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Response

Response will appear here after sending the request

Authentication

header

Authorizationstring

Required

Bearer token. OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp).

The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user.