Add attachment

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.

Use this API to add an attachment to an existing event. This operation limits the size of the attachment you can add to under 3 MB.

If an organizer adds an attachment to a meeting event, the organizer can subsequently update the event to send the attachment and update the event for each attendee as well.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Calendars.ReadWrite Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Calendars.ReadWrite Not available.
Application Calendars.ReadWrite Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/events/{id}/attachments
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/events/{id}/attachments

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization string Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type string Nature of the data in the body of an entity. Required.

Request body

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

Response

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

Example (file attachment)

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/events/AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=/attachments
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
    "name": "menu.txt",
    "contentBytes": "bWFjIGFuZCBjaGVlc2UgdG9kYXk="
}

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

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP 201 Created
Content-Length: 735

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('cd209b0b-3f83-4c35-82d2-d88a61820480')/events('AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA%3D')/attachments/$entity",
    "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
    "id":"AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAABEgAQAEdBogju-MJEu6Ngg-1_W0g=",
    "lastModifiedDateTime":"2017-04-15T03:21:49Z",
    "name":"menu.txt",
    "contentType":"text/plain",
    "size":178,
    "isInline":false,
    "contentId":null,
    "contentLocation":null,
    "contentBytes":"bWFjIGFuZCBjaGVlc2UgdG9kYXk="
}

Example (item attachment)

Request

Here is an example which attaches an event with another event as an item attachment.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/events/AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=/attachments
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.itemAttachment",
  "name": "Holiday event",
  "item": {
        "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.event",
        "subject": "Discuss gifts for children",
        "body": {
            "contentType": "HTML",
            "content": "Let's look for funding!"
         },
         "start": {
             "dateTime": "2016-12-02T18:00:00",
             "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
          },
          "end": {
             "dateTime": "2016-12-02T19:00:00",
             "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
          }
    }
}

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#me/events('AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=')/attachments/$entity",
    "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.itemAttachment",
    "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('fdcbcf34-2505-4d07-be5b-0a55b699d157@41a5b830-45ac-4f1b-9bfc-baafa3b7db2e')/events('AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=')/attachments('AAMkADNkN2Jp5JVnQIe9r0=')",
    "id":"AAMkADNkNJp5JVnQIe9r0=",
    "lastModifiedDateTime":"2016-12-01T22:27:13Z",
    "name":"Holiday event",
    "contentType":null,
    "size":2473,
    "isInline":false
}

Example (reference attachment)

Request

The following example shows a request that adds a reference attachment to an existing event. The attachment points to a folder on OneDrive.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/events/AAMkAGE1M88AADUv0uAAAG=/attachments
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.referenceAttachment",
    "name": "Personal pictures",
    "sourceUrl": "https://contoso.com/personal/mario_contoso_net/Documents/Pics",
    "providerType": "oneDriveConsumer",
    "permission": "Edit",
    "isFolder": "True"
}

Response

Here is an example of a full response.

HTTP 201 Created

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users/ddfcd489-628b-40d7-b48b-57002df800e5/events/AAMkAGE1M88AADUv0uAAAG%3D/attachments/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.referenceAttachment",
  "id": "AAMkAGE1Mg72tgf7hJp0PCGVCIc0g=",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-03-12T06:04:38Z",
  "name": "Personal pictures",
  "contentType": null,
  "size": 382,
  "isInline": false,
  "sourceUrl": "https://contoso.com/personal/mario_contoso_net/Documents/Pics",
  "providerType": "oneDriveConsumer",
  "thumbnailUrl": null,
  "previewUrl": null,
  "permission": "edit",
  "isFolder": true
}