# updateRecord

This method is to update a record. You can update its title, description and its tags.

Your application cannot update a record that was created by another application.

## Parameters

| Name        | Type               | Required | Description                                                                                         |
| ----------- | ------------------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| cortexToken | `string`           | yes      | A token returned by [authorize](https://emotiv.gitbook.io/cortex-api/authentication/authorize).     |
| record      | `string`           | yes      | A record id returned by [createRecord](https://emotiv.gitbook.io/cortex-api/records/createrecord).  |
| title       | `string`           | no       | <p>The new title of the record.</p><p><em>This parameter was added in Cortex 2.5.0</em></p>         |
| description | `string`           | no       | The new description of the record. Omit this parameter if you don't want to update the description. |
| tags        | `array of strings` | no       | The new tags of the record.Omit this parameter if you don't want to update the tags.                |

## Result

The result is a [record object](https://emotiv.gitbook.io/cortex-api/records/record-object).

## Examples

Update the tags and the description.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Request" %}

```javascript
{
    "id": 1,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "updateRecord",
    "params": {
        "cortexToken": "xxx",
        "record": "d8fe7658-71f1-4cd6-bb5d-f6775b03438f",
        "description": "My best record ever.",
        "tags": ["best", "snow", "direwolf"]
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Response" %}

```javascript
{
    "id": 1,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "applicationId": "com.jon.snow.winterfell-app",
        "applicationVersion": "1.0",
        "description": "My best record ever.",
        "endDatetime": "2019-06-06T11:42:23.436191+07:00",
        "experimentId": 0,
        "licenseId": "xxx",
        "licenseScope": ["pm","eeg"],
        "ownerId": "76c3468a-d9c0-428d-81b4-bdac5d63860e",
        "startDatetime": "2019-06-06T11:41:53.088632+07:00",
        "tags": ["best", "snow", "direwolf"],
        "title": "Cortex Examples C++",
        "uuid": "d8fe7658-71f1-4cd6-bb5d-f6775b03438f"
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}