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# Update a task category

A classification applied to project tasks that determines their behavior. `standard` categories represent regular tasks, while `rollup` categories act as containers whose budgets and rollups derive from their descendant standard tasks.


## OpenAPI

````yaml openapi.json PATCH /task-categories/{id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Ruddr API
  version: '1.0'
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.ruddr.com/master-subscription-agreement
servers:
  - url: https://www.ruddr.io/api/workspace
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Allocations
    description: Manage resource allocations for scheduling team members to projects.
  - name: Availability Periods
    description: Manage member availability periods for capacity planning.
  - name: Business Units
    description: >-
      Manage business units for organizing invoice settings and grouping clients
      and projects.
  - name: Client Roles
    description: Manage client roles and their billing terms.
  - name: Client Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing clients.
  - name: Clients
    description: Manage clients and their billing settings.
  - name: Companies
    description: Manage companies in the CRM pipeline.
  - name: Company Spend Tiers
    description: Manage spend tier classifications for companies.
  - name: Company Types
    description: Manage type classifications for companies.
  - name: Contact Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing contacts.
  - name: Contacts
    description: Manage contacts associated with clients, companies, and opportunities.
  - name: Cost Periods
    description: Manage member cost rate periods for profitability tracking.
  - name: Credit Notes
    description: View credit notes issued against invoices.
  - name: Disciplines
    description: Manage disciplines for classifying member skill areas.
  - name: Exchange Rate
    description: Get exchange rates for multi-currency workspaces.
  - name: Exchange Rate Periods
    description: Manage custom exchange rate periods for currency conversion.
  - name: Expense Categories
    description: Manage expense categories for tracking and reporting.
  - name: Expense Items
    description: Manage individual expense line items.
  - name: Expense Reports
    description: Manage expense reports submitted by members.
  - name: Holiday Schedules
    description: Manage holiday schedules for capacity and availability planning.
  - name: Holidays
    description: Manage individual holidays within holiday schedules.
  - name: Industries
    description: Manage industry classifications for clients and companies.
  - name: Invoice Items
    description: Manage invoice line item types for billing.
  - name: Invoices
    description: View invoices and their line items.
  - name: Job Titles
    description: Manage job title classifications for members.
  - name: Locations
    description: Manage office locations for members and projects.
  - name: Member Certifications
    description: Manage certification types that can be assigned to members.
  - name: Member Levels
    description: Manage member level classifications for career tracking.
  - name: Member Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing members.
  - name: Members
    description: Manage workspace members and their profiles.
  - name: Opportunities
    description: Manage sales opportunities in the CRM pipeline.
  - name: Opportunity Pipelines
    description: Manage pipelines for tracking opportunity stages.
  - name: Opportunity Lead Sources
    description: Manage lead source classifications for opportunities.
  - name: Opportunity Stages
    description: Manage pipeline stage definitions for opportunities.
  - name: Opportunity Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing opportunities.
  - name: Opportunity Types
    description: Manage type classifications for opportunities.
  - name: Payment Methods
    description: Manage payment method options for invoices.
  - name: Payments
    description: View payments received against invoices.
  - name: Pipeline Activities
    description: >-
      Manage pipeline activities associated with companies, contacts, members,
      and opportunities.
  - name: Pipeline Activity Types
    description: Manage activity type classifications for pipeline activities.
  - name: Practices
    description: Manage practice area classifications for organizing projects and members.
  - name: Project Budget Expenses
    description: Manage expense budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Budget Other Items
    description: Manage other budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Budget Product Items
    description: Manage product budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Budget Service Items
    description: Manage additional service budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Expenses
    description: Manage project-level expense line items.
  - name: Project Groups
    description: View project groups for organizing related projects.
  - name: Project Health Reports
    description: Manage project health status reports.
  - name: Project Invoice Milestones
    description: Manage invoice milestones for fixed-fee project billing.
  - name: Project Members
    description: Manage team member assignments on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Expenses
    description: Manage monthly expense budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Other Items
    description: Manage monthly other budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Product Items
    description: Manage monthly product budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Monthly Budget Service Items
    description: Manage monthly additional service budget line items on projects.
  - name: Project Other Items
    description: Manage project-level other item line items.
  - name: Project Product Items
    description: Manage project-level product line items.
  - name: Project Revenue Adjustments
    description: Manage earned revenue adjustments for projects.
  - name: Project Revenue Recognition Entries
    description: Manage revenue recognition entries for projects.
  - name: Project Roles
    description: Manage roles defined on projects for billing and staffing.
  - name: Project Service Items
    description: Manage project-level additional service line items.
  - name: Project Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing projects.
  - name: Project Tasks
    description: Manage tasks on projects for time tracking and planning.
  - name: Project Types
    description: Manage type classifications for projects.
  - name: Projects
    description: Manage projects and their settings.
  - name: Resource Placeholders
    description: Manage placeholder resources for allocation planning.
  - name: Security Roles
    description: View security roles for assigning member permissions.
  - name: Skills
    description: Manage skill classifications for members and resource planning.
  - name: Task Categories
    description: Manage task category classifications for project tasks.
  - name: Task Tags
    description: Manage tags for categorizing project tasks.
  - name: Task Templates
    description: Manage reusable task templates for projects.
  - name: Tax Rates
    description: Manage tax rates for invoicing.
  - name: Time Entries
    description: Manage time entries for tracking hours on projects.
  - name: Time Off Types
    description: Manage time off type classifications.
  - name: Timesheet Attestations
    description: Manage attestation statements members sign when submitting timesheets.
  - name: Timesheets
    description: Manage timesheet submissions for tracking hours across a period.
  - name: Utilization Target Periods
    description: Manage member utilization target periods for capacity planning.
  - name: Workspace Roles
    description: Manage workspace-level roles for billing rate configuration.
paths:
  /task-categories/{id}:
    patch:
      tags:
        - Task Categories
      summary: Update a task category
      operationId: update-a-task-category
      parameters:
        - name: id
          in: path
          description: The task category `uuid`.
          schema:
            type: string
          required: true
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
                  description: The name of the task category (max 255 chars).
                type:
                  type: string
                  description: >-
                    The type of the task category. Cannot be changed after tasks
                    have been assigned to this category.
                  enum:
                    - standard
                    - rollup
                icon:
                  type: string
                  description: The icon identifier for the task category.
                  enum:
                    - check-circle
                    - folder
                    - tasks
                    - clipboard
                    - lightbulb
                    - rocket
                    - wrench
                    - file
                    - file-alt
                    - calendar
                    - users
                color:
                  type: string
                  description: The color identifier for the task category.
                  enum:
                    - grey
                    - grey-light
                    - teal
                    - teal-light
                    - blue
                    - blue-light
                    - orange
                    - orange-light
                    - brown
                    - brown-light
                    - purple
                    - purple-light
                isActive:
                  type: boolean
                  description: >-
                    Whether the task category is active. Cannot deactivate the
                    default task category; set another task category as default
                    first.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: '200'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TaskCategory'
              examples:
                Result:
                  value:
                    id: c7e2f4a1-9b38-4d65-8c17-3a5f1e2d4b96
                    name: Standard Task
                    type: standard
                    icon: file-alt
                    color: grey
                    isActive: true
                    isDefault: true
                    createdAt: '2026-03-18T10:15:22.741Z'
        '400':
          description: '400'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationErrorResponse'
              examples:
                InvalidId:
                  value:
                    status: 400
                    message: Parameter 'id' is not a valid UUID.
                Validation:
                  value:
                    status: 400
                    message: >-
                      There was a problem processing your request. See errors
                      for more details.
                    errors:
                      - '''name'' must be a string'
                InvalidData:
                  value:
                    status: 400
                    message: >-
                      Cannot change type after tasks have been assigned to this
                      category.
        '404':
          description: '404'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              examples:
                NotFound:
                  value:
                    status: 404
                    message: >-
                      Object with id 'c7e2f4a1-9b38-4d65-8c17-3a5f1e2d4b96' not
                      found.
        '409':
          description: '409'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              examples:
                Duplicate:
                  value:
                    status: 409
                    message: A Task Category with the same name already exists.
      deprecated: false
components:
  schemas:
    TaskCategory:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: The unique identifier for the object.
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the task category.
        type:
          type: string
          description: The type of the task category.
          enum:
            - standard
            - rollup
        icon:
          type: string
          description: The icon identifier for the task category.
          enum:
            - check-circle
            - folder
            - tasks
            - clipboard
            - lightbulb
            - rocket
            - wrench
            - file
            - file-alt
            - calendar
            - users
        color:
          type: string
          description: The color identifier for the task category.
          enum:
            - grey
            - grey-light
            - teal
            - teal-light
            - blue
            - blue-light
            - orange
            - orange-light
            - brown
            - brown-light
            - purple
            - purple-light
        isActive:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the task category is active.
        isDefault:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether this is the default task category for the workspace.
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The timestamp when the object was created.
      example:
        id: c7e2f4a1-9b38-4d65-8c17-3a5f1e2d4b96
        name: Standard Task
        type: standard
        icon: file-alt
        color: grey
        isActive: true
        isDefault: true
        createdAt: '2026-03-18T10:15:22.741Z'
    ValidationErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code.
        message:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable error message.
        errors:
          type: array
          description: A list of validation error messages.
          items:
            type: string
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code.
        message:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable error message.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer

````