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POST /api/v1/load-board/user-connection

ark.update_load_board_user_connection

Validates or saves the current user DAT or Sylectus seat connection used by ARK load-board posting workflows.

Availability
Expanded preview
Scopes
loads:write
ARK permissions
canEditLoad
Team visibility
Not entity-scoped
Idempotency-Key
Required for this write
Approval
No MCP approval on REST API-token calls
Rate limit
API credential and organization budgets

Parameters

Idempotency-Keyheaderstringrequired
Required for external write operations. Reuse the same key only for exact retries of the same request body.
min length: 1; max length: 200

Request body

providerstringrequired
usernamestring

DAT username to validate and save for the current user.

min length: 1; max length: 200

sylectusUserIdstring

Sylectus user ID to save for the current user.

min length: 1; max length: 200

Example request

Shell
curl -X POST 'https://arktms.com/api/v1/load-board/user-connection' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ARK_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: <unique-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "provider": "dat",
  "username": "<username>"
}'

Success response

Updated load board user connection

objectstringrequired
okbooleanrequired
api_versionstringrequired
request_idstringrequired
dataobjectrequired
data.providerstringrequired

one of: dat, sylectus

data.canEditCurrentUserSeatbooleanrequired
data.messagestringrequired

Errors

HTTP 400
Invalid request
HTTP 401
Authentication required
HTTP 403
Permission, scope, team, or entitlement denied
HTTP 409
Idempotency conflict or in-progress retry
HTTP 503
External provider or worker queue could not be reached