Create calendar

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.

Create a new calendar for a user.

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) Calendars.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Calendars.ReadWrite
Application Calendars.ReadWrite

HTTP request

POST /me/calendars
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars

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 a calendar object.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/calendars
Content-type: application/json

{
  "name": "Volunteer"
}

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/beta/$metadata#me/calendars/$entity",
    "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('266efe5a-0fd7-4edd-877b-b2d1e561f193@ae01a323-3934-4475-a32d-af1274312bb0')/calendars('AAMkADJmMVAAA=')",
    "id":"AAMkADJmMVAAA=",
    "name":"Volunteer",
    "color":"auto",
    "isDefaultCalendar":false,
    "changeKey":"DxYSthXJXEWwAQSYQnXvIgAAIxGttg==",
    "calendarGroupId":null,
    "canShare":true,
    "canViewPrivateItems":true,
    "hexColor": "",
    "isShared":false,
    "isSharedWithMe":false,
    "canEdit":true,
    "allowedOnlineMeetingProviders": [
                "teamsForBusiness"
            ],
    "defaultOnlineMeetingProvider": "teamsForBusiness",
    "isTallyingResponses": true,
    "isRemovable": false,
    "owner":{
        "name":"Samantha Booth",
        "address":"samanthab@contoso.com"
    }
}