Is it possible to change the slug of an archived goal without unarchiving it?

[mbork]

I have an archived goal which I’d like to revive. However, instead of simply unarchiving it, I’d prefer to rename it to something like “goal-old” and set up a new goal.

I can change the slug of an active goal, but is it possible to rename an archived goal?

OTOH, maybe I’m doing it wrong, and I should just unarchive the old goal, possibly using the “fresh start” feature? (Does it do anything besides changing the graph’s “min-x” to today?) Any suggestions?

[insti]

If you know how to program you can do it via the API.

See also:

Feature request: Reusing archived URLs.

I often find that I want to restart a goal I’ve previously finished with an entirely different structure (also, TBH, even when I want to restart it with the same structure I usually want to create it as a new goal because I rarely find restarting works well). This results in a bunch of goals with slugs like running2 or blogging2, which offends my sense of aesthetics. I’d really like to be able to use the slug from a previously archived goal and rename the archived one, but I can’t change goal s…

[mbork]

@insti

you can do it via the API

How cool is that! You’re right, it worked! (For the curious, here’s the relevant part of the api docs: Beeminder API Reference)

Thanks a lot!

[bee]

This is no longer possible (changing goalnames (aka ‘slug’) via the api), but you can change the goalname and a few other settings on archived goals now, via the website.