Update custom column value
well_update_custom_column_valueSet or clear the value of one cell of a custom column: one column, on one record of the column's view.
Use this tool when the user asks to fill in, change or clear what a custom column holds for one record (e.g. "put Scalify and Mehdi Amrani in the Contreparties column of this deal", "clear the owner of this company").
REQUIRED: custom_column_id, record_id, value
record_id: the id of the record of the column's view (a project, a company, a person, ...).
value: shaped by the column type. A record_reference column takes { root, id } naming a record of one of the column's reference targets, or a list of { root, id } when the column holds a list. A column that targets several roots (for example people and companies) takes records of any of them in the same list. null clears the cell.
A column Well computes (an AI or rule column) or a connected tool syncs cannot be typed by hand: the call is refused.
Returns { success: true, custom_column_id, record_id, value } on success, or { success: false, error } on failure.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| value | Yes | The cell value, shaped by the column type: text a string; number a number; amount { value, currency }; date YYYY-MM-DD; boolean true or false; single_select a label; multi_select a list of labels; record_reference { root, id } or, on a list column, a list of { root, id }. null clears the cell | |
| record_id | Yes | The UUID of the record of the column's view whose cell is written (required) | |
| workspace_id | No | Target workspace. Omit when the token authorizes one workspace. Required when it authorizes several — a write lands in exactly one workspace and this call would not say which. | |
| conversation_id | No | The conversation id returned by the previous Well result, in its meta under well/conversation_id, in its structuredContent, or in its JSON text block. Pass it back on every call in the same conversation, including a call a card makes, so the chosen workspace and the earlier answers still apply. It decides the conversation on its own: nothing the host states about the session replaces it. Omit it only on the first call of a conversation. | |
| idempotency_key | No | Optional client-supplied key. A retried write with the same key returns the original result instead of re-applying the operation. | |
| workspace_scope | No | Restrict this call to the family: the token's primary workspace plus the company workspaces under it that you are a member of. Unrelated authorized workspaces drop out of the read; row reads merge across the family, while a per-workspace figure still reports exactly one workspace. | |
| custom_column_id | Yes | The UUID of the custom column (required) |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | No | ||
| error | No | ||
| value | No | ||
| success | Yes | ||
| record_id | No | ||
| reply_lines | No | ||
| conversation_id | No | The conversation this result belongs to. Pass it back as the conversation_id argument on every later Well call in the same conversation. | |
| near_candidates | No | ||
| newly_connected | No | Tools that connected to this workspace since the last result and that no session was told about yet, oldest first. Present only when at least one tool is new. The connected-line rule says when to tell an entry; when it does, one line per entry, in the person's language: "<name> is connected.". Never fold several entries into one sentence. Each entry comes back once, on one result only: never repeat its line later. | |
| custom_column_id | No | ||
| conversation_id_note | No | Present only when the server opened a fresh lane, stating that no choice recorded earlier was read. | |
| conversation_id_source | No | Where the conversation id came from: the host's own request meta, the caller's argument, or a fresh lane the server opened. | |
| near_candidates_truncated | No |