DisableHIT

The DisableHIT operation removes a HIT from the Mechanical Turk marketplace, approves all submitted assignments that have not already been approved or rejected, and disposes of the HIT and all assignment data.

Assignments for the HIT that have already been submitted, but not yet approved or rejected, will be automatically approved. Assignments in progress at the time of the call to DisableHIT will be approved once the assignments are submitted. You will be charged for approval of these assignments.

Caution:

As of June 14, 2006, DisableHIT will not work on HITs in the "reviewable" state. For reviewable HITs, call ApproveAssignment or RejectAssignment for each submitted assignment, if any, then call DisposeHIT to dispose of the HIT.

DisableHIT completely disposes of the HIT and all submitted assignment data. Assignment results data cannot be retrieved for a HIT that has been disposed.

It is not possible to re-enable a HIT once it has been disabled. To make the work from a disabled HIT available again, create a new HIT.

Only the Requester who created a HIT may disable it.

The following example of a call to the DisableHIT operation disables a HIT with a given HIT ID.

http://mechanicalturk.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSMechanicalTurkRequester
&AWSAccessKeyId=[the Requester's Access Key ID]
&Version=2006-08-23
&Operation=DisableHIT
&Signature=[signature for this request]
&Timestamp=[your system's local time]
&HITId=123RVWYBAZW00EXAMPLE

A request to the Mechanical Turk Service includes parameters that control its behavior and the data it returns. Required parameters must be included for the request to succeed.

DisableHIT accepts parameters common to all operations. Some common parameters are required. See Common Parameters for more information.

The following parameters are specific to the DisableHIT operation:

NameDescriptionTypeValue
Operation

The operation to call. To access the DisableHIT operation, set the Operation parameter to DisableHIT.

Required

DisableHIT

HITId

The ID of the HIT, as returned by the CreateHIT operation.

Required

A valid HIT ID

A successful request for the DisableHIT operation will have a HIT element in the response.

The HIT element contains a HIT data structure. For a description of the HIT data structure as it appears in responses, see the HIT Data Structure.