How to deprecate a term in sharepoint term store using Microsoft Graph?

Question

Has anybody succeeded in deprecating a term using Microsoft Graph? If I deprecate a term using the Sharepoint web site and then get that term using Microsoft Graph, there is nothing in the properties of the term that indicates that the term is deprecated. Adding a property ("deprecated", "true") is persisted, but does not make the term deprecated.

Answer 1

Hi @Job Scheffers ,
The properties is just a key-value pair updated in your term. It will update the content of the term but not if the term is deprecated. In Microsoft Graph, we are unable to deprecate the term. We can only delete a term.
I will recommend you to try deprecate a term by following steps. Please make a reference.
https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2017/08/sharepoint-online-how-to-deprecate-term-in-term-store-using-powershell.html

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Answer 2

here in similar question (Deprecate term from term store using Microsoft Graph API) it was tried by the following code:

PATCH sites/{site-id}/termStore/sets/{set-id}/terms/{term-id}
{
    "properties": [
        {
            "deprecated": true
        }
    ]
}

However based on comments it returned error. You may tried that on your env too. If it won't work you will probably need to do that via CSOM how it was suggested in another reply.