Hi Oren,
indeed you are right, you read the data from your collection first to get a JSON item like this:
{
"_id": "00001",
"_owner": "ffdkj9c2-df8g-f9ke-lk98-4kjhfr89keedb",
"_createdDate": "2017-05-24T12:33:18.938Z",
"_updatedDate": "2017-05-24T12:33:18.938Z",
"title": "Mr.",
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe"
}
the you update the fields you need and continue according to the example here:
http://www.wix.com/code/reference/wix-data.html#update
Shlomi