Create conversation thread

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Start a new group conversation by first creating a thread.

A new conversation, conversation thread, and post are created in the group. Use reply thread or reply post to further post to that thread.

Note: You can also start a new thread in an existing conversation.

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}/threads

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of conversationThread object containing a post.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{id}/threads
Content-type: application/json

{
  "topic": "New Conversation Thread Topic",
  "posts": [{
    "body": {
      "contentType": "html",
      "content": "this is body content"
    },
    "newParticipants": [{
      "emailAddress": {
        "name": "Alex Darrow",
        "address": "alexd@contoso.com"
      }
    }]
  }]
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ConversationThread
{
	Topic = "New Conversation Thread Topic",
	Posts = new List<Post>
	{
		new Post
		{
			Body = new ItemBody
			{
				ContentType = BodyType.Html,
				Content = "this is body content",
			},
			NewParticipants = new List<Recipient>
			{
				new Recipient
				{
					EmailAddress = new EmailAddress
					{
						Name = "Alex Darrow",
						Address = "alexd@contoso.com",
					},
				},
			},
		},
	},
};

// 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}"].Threads.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc groups threads create --group-id {group-id} --body '{\
  "topic": "New Conversation Thread Topic",\
  "posts": [{\
    "body": {\
      "contentType": "html",\
      "content": "this is body content"\
    },\
    "newParticipants": [{\
      "emailAddress": {\
        "name": "Alex Darrow",\
        "address": "alexd@contoso.com"\
      }\
    }]\
  }]\
}\
'

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

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationThread()
topic := "New Conversation Thread Topic"
requestBody.SetTopic(&topic) 


post := graphmodels.NewPost()
body := graphmodels.NewItemBody()
contentType := graphmodels.HTML_BODYTYPE 
body.SetContentType(&contentType) 
content := "this is body content"
body.SetContent(&content) 
post.SetBody(body)


recipient := graphmodels.NewRecipient()
emailAddress := graphmodels.NewEmailAddress()
name := "Alex Darrow"
emailAddress.SetName(&name) 
address := "alexd@contoso.com"
emailAddress.SetAddress(&address) 
recipient.SetEmailAddress(emailAddress)

newParticipants := []graphmodels.Recipientable {
	recipient,
}
post.SetNewParticipants(newParticipants)

posts := []graphmodels.Postable {
	post,
}
requestBody.SetPosts(posts)

threads, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Threads().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);

ConversationThread conversationThread = new ConversationThread();
conversationThread.setTopic("New Conversation Thread Topic");
LinkedList<Post> posts = new LinkedList<Post>();
Post post = new Post();
ItemBody body = new ItemBody();
body.setContentType(BodyType.Html);
body.setContent("this is body content");
post.setBody(body);
LinkedList<Recipient> newParticipants = new LinkedList<Recipient>();
Recipient recipient = new Recipient();
EmailAddress emailAddress = new EmailAddress();
emailAddress.setName("Alex Darrow");
emailAddress.setAddress("alexd@contoso.com");
recipient.setEmailAddress(emailAddress);
newParticipants.add(recipient);
post.setNewParticipants(newParticipants);
posts.add(post);
conversationThread.setPosts(posts);
ConversationThread result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").threads().post(conversationThread);

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 conversationThread = {
  topic: 'New Conversation Thread Topic',
  posts: [{
    body: {
      contentType: 'html',
      content: 'this is body content'
    },
    newParticipants: [{
      emailAddress: {
        name: 'Alex Darrow',
        address: 'alexd@contoso.com'
      }
    }]
  }]
};

await client.api('/groups/{id}/threads')
	.post(conversationThread);

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\ConversationThread;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Post;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ItemBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Recipient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EmailAddress;


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

$requestBody = new ConversationThread();
$requestBody->setTopic('New Conversation Thread Topic');
$postsPost1 = new Post();
$postsPost1Body = new ItemBody();
$postsPost1Body->setContentType(new BodyType('html'));
$postsPost1Body->setContent('this is body content');
$postsPost1->setBody($postsPost1Body);
$newParticipantsRecipient1 = new Recipient();
$newParticipantsRecipient1EmailAddress = new EmailAddress();
$newParticipantsRecipient1EmailAddress->setName('Alex Darrow');
$newParticipantsRecipient1EmailAddress->setAddress('alexd@contoso.com');
$newParticipantsRecipient1->setEmailAddress($newParticipantsRecipient1EmailAddress);
$newParticipantsArray []= $newParticipantsRecipient1;
$postsPost1->setNewParticipants($newParticipantsArray);

$postsArray []= $postsPost1;
$requestBody->setPosts($postsArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->threads()->post($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.Groups

$params = @{
	topic = "New Conversation Thread Topic"
	posts = @(
		@{
			body = @{
				contentType = "html"
				content = "this is body content"
			}
			newParticipants = @(
				@{
					emailAddress = @{
						name = "Alex Darrow"
						address = "alexd@contoso.com"
					}
				}
			)
		}
	)
}

New-MgGroupThread -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

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.conversation_thread import ConversationThread
from msgraph.generated.models.post import Post
from msgraph.generated.models.item_body import ItemBody
from msgraph.generated.models.recipient import Recipient
from msgraph.generated.models.email_address import EmailAddress

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ConversationThread(
	topic = "New Conversation Thread Topic",
	posts = [
		Post(
			body = ItemBody(
				content_type = BodyType.Html,
				content = "this is body content",
			),
			new_participants = [
				Recipient(
					email_address = EmailAddress(
						name = "Alex Darrow",
						address = "alexd@contoso.com",
					),
				),
			],
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').threads.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

{
  "toRecipients": [
    {
      "emailAddress": {
        "name": "name-value",
        "address": "address-value"
      }
    }
  ],
  "topic": "topic-value",
  "hasAttachments": true,
  "lastDeliveredDateTime": "datetime-value",
  "uniqueSenders": [
    "uniqueSenders-value"
  ],
  "ccRecipients": [
    {
      "emailAddress": {
        "name": "name-value",
        "address": "address-value"
      }
    }
  ]
}