Create event

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to create a new event.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

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)	Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /groups/{id}/events
POST /groups/{id}/calendar/events

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of an event object.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an event object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/01d4ee64-15ce-491e-bad1-b91aa3223df4/events
Content-type: application/json

{
  "subject": "Let's go for lunch",
  "body": {
    "contentType": "HTML",
    "content": "Does late morning work for you?"
  },
  "start": {
      "dateTime": "2019-06-16T12:00:00",
      "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
  },
  "end": {
      "dateTime": "2019-06-16T14:00:00",
      "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
  },
  "location":{
      "displayName":"Harry's Bar"
  },
  "attendees": [
    {
      "emailAddress": {
        "address":"adelev@contoso.com",
        "name": "Adele Vance"
      },
      "type": "required"
    }
  ]
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Event
{
	Subject = "Let's go for lunch",
	Body = new ItemBody
	{
		ContentType = BodyType.Html,
		Content = "Does late morning work for you?",
	},
	Start = new DateTimeTimeZone
	{
		DateTime = "2019-06-16T12:00:00",
		TimeZone = "Pacific Standard Time",
	},
	End = new DateTimeTimeZone
	{
		DateTime = "2019-06-16T14:00:00",
		TimeZone = "Pacific Standard Time",
	},
	Location = new Location
	{
		DisplayName = "Harry's Bar",
	},
	Attendees = new List<Attendee>
	{
		new Attendee
		{
			EmailAddress = new EmailAddress
			{
				Address = "adelev@contoso.com",
				Name = "Adele Vance",
			},
			Type = AttendeeType.Required,
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Events.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc groups events create --group-id {group-id} --body '{\
  "subject": "Let's go for lunch",\
  "body": {\
    "contentType": "HTML",\
    "content": "Does late morning work for you?"\
  },\
  "start": {\
      "dateTime": "2019-06-16T12:00:00",\
      "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"\
  },\
  "end": {\
      "dateTime": "2019-06-16T14:00:00",\
      "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"\
  },\
  "location":{\
      "displayName":"Harry's Bar"\
  },\
  "attendees": [\
    {\
      "emailAddress": {\
        "address":"adelev@contoso.com",\
        "name": "Adele Vance"\
      },\
      "type": "required"\
    }\
  ]\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewEvent()
subject := "Let's go for lunch"
requestBody.SetSubject(&subject) 
body := graphmodels.NewItemBody()
contentType := graphmodels.HTML_BODYTYPE 
body.SetContentType(&contentType) 
content := "Does late morning work for you?"
body.SetContent(&content) 
requestBody.SetBody(body)
start := graphmodels.NewDateTimeTimeZone()
dateTime := "2019-06-16T12:00:00"
start.SetDateTime(&dateTime) 
timeZone := "Pacific Standard Time"
start.SetTimeZone(&timeZone) 
requestBody.SetStart(start)
end := graphmodels.NewDateTimeTimeZone()
dateTime := "2019-06-16T14:00:00"
end.SetDateTime(&dateTime) 
timeZone := "Pacific Standard Time"
end.SetTimeZone(&timeZone) 
requestBody.SetEnd(end)
location := graphmodels.NewLocation()
displayName := "Harry's Bar"
location.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
requestBody.SetLocation(location)


attendee := graphmodels.NewAttendee()
emailAddress := graphmodels.NewEmailAddress()
address := "adelev@contoso.com"
emailAddress.SetAddress(&address) 
name := "Adele Vance"
emailAddress.SetName(&name) 
attendee.SetEmailAddress(emailAddress)
type := graphmodels.REQUIRED_ATTENDEETYPE 
attendee.SetType(&type) 

attendees := []graphmodels.Attendeeable {
	attendee,
}
requestBody.SetAttendees(attendees)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
events, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Events().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Event event = new Event();
event.setSubject("Let's go for lunch");
ItemBody body = new ItemBody();
body.setContentType(BodyType.Html);
body.setContent("Does late morning work for you?");
event.setBody(body);
DateTimeTimeZone start = new DateTimeTimeZone();
start.setDateTime("2019-06-16T12:00:00");
start.setTimeZone("Pacific Standard Time");
event.setStart(start);
DateTimeTimeZone end = new DateTimeTimeZone();
end.setDateTime("2019-06-16T14:00:00");
end.setTimeZone("Pacific Standard Time");
event.setEnd(end);
Location location = new Location();
location.setDisplayName("Harry's Bar");
event.setLocation(location);
LinkedList<Attendee> attendees = new LinkedList<Attendee>();
Attendee attendee = new Attendee();
EmailAddress emailAddress = new EmailAddress();
emailAddress.setAddress("adelev@contoso.com");
emailAddress.setName("Adele Vance");
attendee.setEmailAddress(emailAddress);
attendee.setType(AttendeeType.Required);
attendees.add(attendee);
event.setAttendees(attendees);
Event result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").events().post(event);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const event = {
  subject: 'Let\'s go for lunch',
  body: {
    contentType: 'HTML',
    content: 'Does late morning work for you?'
  },
  start: {
      dateTime: '2019-06-16T12:00:00',
      timeZone: 'Pacific Standard Time'
  },
  end: {
      dateTime: '2019-06-16T14:00:00',
      timeZone: 'Pacific Standard Time'
  },
  location: {
      displayName: 'Harry\'s Bar'
  },
  attendees: [
    {
      emailAddress: {
        address: 'adelev@contoso.com',
        name: 'Adele Vance'
      },
      type: 'required'
    }
  ]
};

await client.api('/groups/01d4ee64-15ce-491e-bad1-b91aa3223df4/events')
	.post(event);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Event;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ItemBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\BodyType;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\DateTimeTimeZone;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Location;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Attendee;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EmailAddress;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AttendeeType;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Event();
$requestBody->setSubject('Let\'s go for lunch');
$body = new ItemBody();
$body->setContentType(new BodyType('hTML'));
$body->setContent('Does late morning work for you?');
$requestBody->setBody($body);
$start = new DateTimeTimeZone();
$start->setDateTime('2019-06-16T12:00:00');
$start->setTimeZone('Pacific Standard Time');
$requestBody->setStart($start);
$end = new DateTimeTimeZone();
$end->setDateTime('2019-06-16T14:00:00');
$end->setTimeZone('Pacific Standard Time');
$requestBody->setEnd($end);
$location = new Location();
$location->setDisplayName('Harry\'s Bar');
$requestBody->setLocation($location);
$attendeesAttendee1 = new Attendee();
$attendeesAttendee1EmailAddress = new EmailAddress();
$attendeesAttendee1EmailAddress->setAddress('adelev@contoso.com');
$attendeesAttendee1EmailAddress->setName('Adele Vance');
$attendeesAttendee1->setEmailAddress($attendeesAttendee1EmailAddress);
$attendeesAttendee1->setType(new AttendeeType('required'));
$attendeesArray []= $attendeesAttendee1;
$requestBody->setAttendees($attendeesArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->events()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Calendar

$params = @{
	subject = "Let's go for lunch"
	body = @{
		contentType = "HTML"
		content = "Does late morning work for you?"
	}
	start = @{
		dateTime = "2019-06-16T12:00:00"
		timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time"
	}
	end = @{
		dateTime = "2019-06-16T14:00:00"
		timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time"
	}
	location = @{
		displayName = "Harry's Bar"
	}
	attendees = @(
		@{
			emailAddress = @{
				address = "adelev@contoso.com"
				name = "Adele Vance"
			}
			type = "required"
		}
	)
}

New-MgGroupEvent -GroupId $groupId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.event import Event
from msgraph.generated.models.item_body import ItemBody
from msgraph.generated.models.body_type import BodyType
from msgraph.generated.models.date_time_time_zone import DateTimeTimeZone
from msgraph.generated.models.location import Location
from msgraph.generated.models.attendee import Attendee
from msgraph.generated.models.email_address import EmailAddress
from msgraph.generated.models.attendee_type import AttendeeType
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Event(
	subject = "Let's go for lunch",
	body = ItemBody(
		content_type = BodyType.Html,
		content = "Does late morning work for you?",
	),
	start = DateTimeTimeZone(
		date_time = "2019-06-16T12:00:00",
		time_zone = "Pacific Standard Time",
	),
	end = DateTimeTimeZone(
		date_time = "2019-06-16T14:00:00",
		time_zone = "Pacific Standard Time",
	),
	location = Location(
		display_name = "Harry's Bar",
	),
	attendees = [
		Attendee(
			email_address = EmailAddress(
				address = "adelev@contoso.com",
				name = "Adele Vance",
			),
			type = AttendeeType.Required,
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').events.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groups('01d4ee64-15ce-491e-bad1-b91aa3223df4')/events/$entity",
    "@odata.etag": "W/\"Na8DfbsBGUG8JeyvlwNi5wAAHMK0vA==\"",
    "id": "AAMkADZlEZQbwl7K_XA2LnAAAcwiSBAAA=ZQbwl7K_XA2LnAAAcwiSDAAA=",
    "createdDateTime": "2019-05-20T02:20:45.3057043Z",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2019-05-20T02:20:45.5639203Z",
    "changeKey": "Na8DfbsBGUG8JeyvlwNi5wAAHMK0vA==",
    "categories": [],
    "originalStartTimeZone": "Pacific Standard Time",
    "originalEndTimeZone": "Pacific Standard Time",
    "iCalUId": "040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000005D5775A1B20ED50100000000000000001000000072FA001DBB385A45B6AE65DB0E356105",
    "reminderMinutesBeforeStart": 15,
    "isReminderOn": true,
    "hasAttachments": false,
    "subject": "Let's go for lunch",
    "bodyPreview": "Does late morning work for you?",
    "importance": "normal",
    "sensitivity": "normal",
    "isAllDay": false,
    "isCancelled": false,
    "isDraft": false,
    "isOrganizer": true,
    "responseRequested": true,
    "seriesMasterId": null,
    "showAs": "busy",
    "type": "singleInstance",
    "webLink": "https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?itemid=AAMkADZN9uwEZQbwl7K%2BXA2LnAAAAAAENAAA1rwN9uwEZQbwl7K%2BXA2LnAAAcwiSDAAA%3D&exvsurl=1&path=/calendar/item",
    "onlineMeetingUrl": null,
    "recurrence": null,
    "responseStatus": {
        "response": "organizer",
        "time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    },
    "body": {
        "contentType": "html",
        "content": "<html>\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<meta content=\"text/html; charset=us-ascii\">\r\n</head>\r\n<body>\r\nDoes late morning work for you?\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n"
    },
    "start": {
        "dateTime": "2019-06-16T12:00:00.0000000",
        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
    },
    "end": {
        "dateTime": "2019-06-16T14:00:00.0000000",
        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
    },
    "location": {
        "displayName": "Harry's Bar",
        "locationType": "default",
        "uniqueId": "Harry's Bar",
        "uniqueIdType": "private"
    },
    "locations": [
        {
            "displayName": "Harry's Bar",
            "locationType": "default",
            "uniqueId": "Harry's Bar",
            "uniqueIdType": "private"
        }
    ],
    "attendees": [
        {
            "type": "required",
            "status": {
                "response": "none",
                "time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
            },
            "emailAddress": {
                "name": "Adele Vance",
                "address": "adelev@contoso.com"
            }
        }
    ],
    "organizer": {
        "emailAddress": {
            "name": "Retail",
            "address": "Retail@contoso.com"
        }
    }
}