---
title: "PATCH /v1/jobs/{jobId}/plate"
description: "Save wells on a job's plate (PATCH)"
full: true
---

**Auth:** required. Send an `ivy_` API key (`Authorization: Bearer ivy_…` or `X-Ivy-Api-Key`), a Clerk session JWT (`Authorization: Bearer …`) or the Clerk `__session` cookie (browser sessions). See [Authentication](/docs/api/authentication).

Does exactly what `POST` on this path does: the same body, the same behavior and the same responses. See `updateJobPlate`.

## Request

#### Path parameters

- `jobId` (string (uuid)) —
UUID of the job.

#### Request body

- `updates` (object[]) —
Wells to save. Must contain at least one entry with a numeric `row` and `col`.

## Responses

### `200` OK

The wells were saved

Response shape:

- `success` (enum (true)) —

- `upserted` (integer) —
Number of wells saved.

- `manifestEventWritten` (boolean) —
Whether the plate-update event was appended to the job's manifest. The wells are saved either way.

### `400` Bad Request

Same conditions as `POST`

Response shape: `object`

### `401` Unauthorized

Authentication required

Response shape: `object`

### `404` Not Found

The job does not exist, you cannot write to it (a project viewer cannot), it is outside your API key's project scope, or the id is not a job UUID. All of these return the same body.

Response shape: `object`

### `429` Too Many Requests

Rate limit exceeded

Response shape: `object`

### `500` Internal Server Error

The job row could not be loaded, or saving failed

Response shape: `object`

**curl**

```bash
curl -X PATCH 'https://ivybiosciences.com/api/v1/jobs/{jobId}/plate' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $IVY_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "updates": [
    {
      "row": 0,
      "col": 0
    }
  ]
}'
```

**JavaScript**

```js
const res = await fetch('https://ivybiosciences.com/api/v1/jobs/{jobId}/plate', {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.IVY_API_KEY}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "updates": [
    {
      "row": 0,
      "col": 0
    }
  ]
}),
});
const data = await res.json();
```

**Python**

```python
import os, requests

res = requests.patch(
    "https://ivybiosciences.com/api/v1/jobs/{jobId}/plate",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['IVY_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
  "updates": [
    {
      "row": 0,
      "col": 0
    }
  ]
},
)
data = res.json()
```