{"id":5051,"date":"2026-01-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=changelog&#038;p=5051"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:15:20","slug":"elements-api-2026-01-27-new-device-operations-for-categorization","status":"publish","type":"changelog","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/changelogs\/elements-api-2026-01-27-new-device-operations-for-categorization\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements API 2026-01-27: New device operations for categorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Elements API release brings new device operations for helping in categorization of devices.<\/p>\n<p>The following new device operations are now supported:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements%2F%23alias-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\">Set a custom alias<\/a> name for a device. This allows you to assign a human-readable name to a device for easier identification<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements%2F%23importance-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\">Set the importance level of devices<\/a>. This helps prioritize devices based on their criticality to your organization<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements%2F%23business-context-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\">Set business context information for a device<\/a>. This allows you to associate devices with specific business units, departments, or purposes to help with organization and reporting<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements%2F%23labels-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\">Set device labels<\/a>. This allows to you to caregorize devices with custom labels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the full Element API specification from <a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Elements API release brings new device operations for helping in categorization of devices. The following new device operations are now supported: Set a custom alias name for a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","changelog_product":[128],"class_list":["post-5051","changelog","type-changelog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"release_date":"20260127","version":"","source_system":"vanilla-import","source_foreign_id":"","import_hash":"099567c1ad87fef81f246c7c8ad3c87c85e736ee","vanilla_article_id":32814,"legacy_author":"ArtoV","vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/changelogs-en\/kb\/articles\/32814-elements-api-2026-01-27-new-device-operations-for-categorization","vanilla_category_id":170,"machine_translated":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/changelog\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/changelog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/changelog"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"changelog_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/changelog_product?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}