MS Graph people results not ordered by relevance

Question

Per MS Graph documentation, A relevance score is used as a sort key, in relation to the other returned results. A higher relevance score value corresponds to a more relevant result. Relevance is determined by the user’s communication and collaboration patterns and business relationships."

From what we are seeing in the JSON responses, if I ask for the top 20 people related to me, the first 10 are not the same compared to if I asked for just 10 people.

Seems relevance score is not a true "order by" of data in the response. Anyone else seeing this?

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people?$select=displayName&$top=10 - gives 10 results

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people?$select=displayName&$top=20 - gives 20 results, but the first 10 are not the same people as top=10 list

Answer 1

Hi @Prago, Ellen ,

From what I see in the explorer for me when I try to repo all results are same up to 8 :

Is this the same issue or is it for all order

Answer 2

Hi @Prago, Ellen ,

Thanks for reaching out.

I can reproduce your issue in my test tenant. Executed the MS graph API: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/people with different values in $top query parameter and noticed the difference in order of people details from graph response.

I would recommend you to raise a support case with Microsoft Graph, a Support Engineer will be able to assist you better. You can raise support ticket from
http://aad.portal.azure.com/ or https://admin.microsoft.com/#/support/requests.

Hope this helps.

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