private SiteUser UpdateUser(string userId, string newRole, SiteUserAuth newAuthentication) { AppDiagnostics.Assert(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(userId), "missing user id"); AppDiagnostics.Assert(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(newRole), "missing role"); string newAuthenticationText = SendCreateUser.SiteUserAuthToAttributeText(newAuthentication); //ref: https://help.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/REST/rest_api_ref.htm#update_user var sb = new StringBuilder(); var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(sb, XmlHelper.XmlSettingsForWebRequests); xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("tsRequest"); xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("user"); xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("siteRole", newRole); xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("authSetting", newAuthenticationText); xmlWriter.WriteEndElement(); //</user> xmlWriter.WriteEndElement(); // </tsRequest> xmlWriter.Close(); var xmlText = sb.ToString(); //Get the XML text out //Create a web request var urlUpdateUser = _onlineUrls.Url_UpdateSiteUser(_onlineSession, userId); var webRequest = this.CreateLoggedInWebRequest(urlUpdateUser, "PUT"); TableauServerRequestBase.SendPutContents(webRequest, xmlText); //Get the response var response = GetWebReponseLogErrors(webRequest, "update yser (change auth or role)"); using (response) { var xmlDoc = GetWebResponseAsXml(response); //Get all the user nodes var nsManager = XmlHelper.CreateTableauXmlNamespaceManager("iwsOnline"); var xNodeUser = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//iwsOnline:user", nsManager); try { return(SiteUser.FromUserXMLWithoutUserId(xNodeUser, userId)); } catch (Exception parseXml) { StatusLog.AddError("Update user, error parsing XML response " + parseXml.Message + "\r\n" + xNodeUser.InnerXml); return(null); } } }