Graph API - use $search with multiple parameters

Question

Hello!

I want to use $search (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/query-parameters#search-parameter) with multiple parameters with OR statement, like this:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$search="hello" or "good day"

But I can't find something helpful in documentation.

May be there is some way to use this with OR statement?

Answer 1

You can pass the OR statement between the condition followed with the "statement1" OR "statement2 and make sure you have space between statement1<space>OR<space>statement2"

For my case below is the sample that worked.

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$search=%22jobTitle:u%22%20OR%20%22displayName:u%22

For your case below should work

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$search="hello" OR "good day"

Note : OR should be in capital.
Thanks

Answer 2

For this kind of search, you should use the search API. Here is a example to search your files.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/search/query  
      
{  
    "requests": [  
        {  
            "entityTypes": [  
                "message"  
            ],  
            "query": {  
                "queryString": "hello OR good day"  
            }  
        }  
    ]  
}