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Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Add a column to a content type in a site or list by specifying a columnDefinition.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet
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Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Sites.Manage.All Sites.FullControl.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Sites.Manage.All Sites.FullControl.All

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/contentTypes/{contentType-id}/columns
POST /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/contentTypes/{contentType-id}/columns

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the columnDefinition resource to add.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and columnDefinition object in the response body.

Example

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/{site-id}/contentTypes/{contentType-id}/columns
Content-Type: application/json

{
   "sourceColumn@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/root/columns/99ddcf45-e2f7-4f17-82b0-6fba34445103"
}

Response

The response returns the column added to a content type.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "description": "",
  "displayName": "Title",
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,
  "hidden": false,
  "id": "99ddcf45-e2f7-4f17-82b0-6fba34445103",
  "indexed": false,
  "name": "Title",
  "text": {
    "allowMultipleLines": false,
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,
    "linesForEditing": 0,
    "maxLength": 255
  }
}