Cancel an API task

Version: 10.4

You can use the xConnect Web API to cancel a purge task.

To cancel the task:

Use the following PUT request and substitute the {{TaskId}} parameter with the ID of the ongoing registered task:
RequestResponse
```
<instance>/sitecore/api/datatools/tasks/{{TaskId}}/cancel
```
Note

The task cancellation is not an immediate process because the task completes the in-progress batch of contacts before the cancellation takes effect, and the task still processes the related data. If you, for example, cancel a purge task, any items that were deleted before you cancelled the task remain deleted.

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