API Writing to Custom Fields via Python

[Scrounger117]

I'm using the Python Netbox library  https://pypi.org/project/python-netbox/ and attempting to write information to a custom_field that is associated with tenants.  Unable to figure out the correct syntax for entering information into my custom field named "custshortname" in this example:

.tenancy.create_tenant(name='Big Company', slug='big-company', custshortname='bigco')

The tenant creates, but the custom_field remains unpopulated.  Of course, I can enter the information in the gui, and getting the response via JSON in Python shows this for another customer:

, 'custom_fields': {'custshortname': 'medco',

Anyone had any success in getting this to work?  I've also tried pynetbox as well, same basic issue, can't write to custom_fields.  Thanks.

[Markku Leiniö]

Hi, in Pynetbox:

big_tenant = netbox.tenancy.tenants.create(name="BC", slug="bc", custom_fields={"custshortname": "b"})

Markku

[Scrounger117]

@Markku

That worked for me perfectly, in both pynetbox and the python-netbox library.  Thank you for your help and contribution.

Mike