Create allowedValue

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new allowedValue object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

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) CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All Not available.

The signed-in user must also be assigned at least the Attribute Definition Administrator directory role. By default, Global Administrator and other administrator roles don't have permissions to read, define, or assign custom security attributes.

HTTP request

POST /directory/customSecurityAttributeDefinitions/{customSecurityAttributeDefinitionId}/allowedValues

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the allowedValue object.

The following table shows the properties that are required when you create an allowedValue.

Property Type Description
id String Identifier for the predefined value. Can be up to 64 characters long and include Unicode characters. Can include spaces, but some special characters aren't allowed. Can't be changed later. Case sensitive. Required.
isActive Boolean Indicates whether the predefined value is active or deactivated. If set to false, this predefined value can't be assigned to any additional supported directory objects. Required.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example adds a predefined value to a custom security attribute definition.

  • Attribute set: Engineering
  • Attribute: Project
  • Predefined value: Alpine
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/customSecurityAttributeDefinitions/Engineering_Project/allowedValues
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "id":"Alpine",
    "isActive":"true"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directory/customSecurityAttributeDefinitions('Engineering_Project')/allowedValues/$entity",
    "id": "Alpine",
    "isActive": true
}