Update contact
Namespace: microsoft.graph
Important
APIs under the /beta
version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.
Update the properties of contact object.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
Global service | US Government L4 | US Government L5 (DOD) | China operated by 21Vianet |
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✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Permissions
One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.
Permission type | Permissions (from least to most privileged) |
---|---|
Delegated (work or school account) | Contacts.ReadWrite |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) | Contacts.ReadWrite |
Application | Contacts.ReadWrite |
HTTP request
A contact from user's default contactFolder.
PATCH /me/contacts/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts/{id}
A contact from a user's top level contactFolder.
PATCH /me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
A contact contained in a child folder of a contactFolder. The example below shows one level of nesting, but a contact can be located in a child of a child and so on.
PATCH /me/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../contacts/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}
Request headers
Header | Value |
---|---|
Authorization | Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization. |
Content-Type | application/json. Required. |
Request body
In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.
Property | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
assistantName | String | The name of the contact's assistant. |
birthday | DateTimeOffset | The contact's birthday. |
categories | String | The categories associated with the contact. |
children | String | |
companyName | String | The name of the contact's company. |
department | String | The contact's department. |
displayName | String | The contact's display name. Note that later updates to other properties may cause an automatically generated value to overwrite the displayName value you have specified. To preserve a pre-existing value, always include it as displayName in an update operation. |
emailAddresses | typedEmailAddress collection | The contact's email addresses. |
fileAs | String | The name the contact is filed under. |
gender | String | The contact's gender. |
generation | String | The contact's generation. |
givenName | String | The contact's given name. |
imAddresses | String | The contact's instant messaging (IM) addresses. |
initials | String | The contact's initials. |
jobTitle | String | The contact’s job title. |
manager | String | The name of the contact's manager. |
middleName | String | The contact's middle name. |
nickName | String | The contact's nickname. |
officeLocation | String | The location of the contact's office. |
parentFolderId | String | The ID of the contact's parent folder. |
personalNotes | String | The user's notes about the contact. |
phones | phone collection | Phone numbers associated with the contact, for example, home phone, mobile phone, and business phone. |
postalAddresses | physicalAddress collection | Addresses associated with the contact, for example, home address and business address. |
profession | String | The contact's profession. |
spouseName | String | The name of the contact's spouse/partner. |
surname | String | The contact's surname. |
title | String | The contact's title. |
websites | website collection | Web sites associated with the contact. |
weddingAnniversary | Date | The contact's wedding anniversary. |
yomiCompanyName | String | The phonetic Japanese company name of the contact. This property is optional. |
yomiGivenName | String | The phonetic Japanese given name (first name) of the contact. This property is optional. |
yomiSurname | String | The phonetic Japanese surname (last name) of the contact. This property is optional. |
Since the contact resource supports extensions, you can use the PATCH
operation to
add, update, or delete your own app-specific data in custom properties of an extension in an existing contact instance.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 200 OK
response code and updated contact object in the response body.
Example
Request
The following example updates the personal email address of the specified contact.
PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/contacts/AAMkADh6v5AAAvgTCEAAA=
Content-type: application/json
{
"emailAddresses":[
{
"type":"personal",
"name":"Pavel Bansky",
"address":"pavelb@contoso.com"
},
{
"address": "pavelb@contoso.com",
"name": "Pavel Bansky",
"type": "other",
"otherLabel": "Volunteer work"
}
]
}
Response
The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('c3e1fcd2-db78-42a8-aec5-1f2cd59abb5c')/contacts/$entity",
"@odata.etag":"W/\"EQAAABYAAACv7At+UNVFRLhGciJGF6v5AAAve7fh\"",
"id":"AAMkADh6v5AAAvgTCEAAA=",
"createdDateTime":"2018-06-11T19:56:07Z",
"lastModifiedDateTime":"2018-06-11T20:26:23Z",
"changeKey":"EQAAABYAAACv7At+UNVFRLhGciJGF6v5AAAve7fh",
"categories":[
],
"parentFolderId":"AAMkADh6v5AAAAAAEOAAA=",
"birthday":null,
"fileAs":"",
"displayName":"Pavel Bansky",
"givenName":"Pavel",
"initials":null,
"middleName":null,
"nickName":null,
"surname":"Bansky",
"title":null,
"yomiGivenName":null,
"yomiSurname":null,
"yomiCompanyName":null,
"generation":null,
"imAddresses":[
],
"jobTitle":null,
"companyName":null,
"department":null,
"officeLocation":null,
"profession":null,
"assistantName":null,
"manager":null,
"spouseName":null,
"personalNotes":"",
"children":[
],
"gender":null,
"isFavorite":null,
"emailAddresses":[
{
"type":"personal",
"name":"Pavel Bansky",
"address":"pavelb@contoso.com"
},
{
"type":"other",
"otherLabel":"Volunteer work",
"name":"Pavel Bansky",
"address":"pavelb@contoso.com"
}
],
"websites":[
],
"phones":[
{
"type":"business",
"number":"+1 732 555 0102"
}
],
"postalAddresses":[
],
"flag":{
"flagStatus":"notFlagged"
}
}