event: tentativelyAccept

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Tentatively accept the specified event in a user calendar.

If the event allows proposals for new times, on responding tentative to the event, an invitee can choose to suggest an alternative time by including the proposedNewTime parameter. For more information on how to propose a time, and how to receive and accept a new time proposal, see Propose new meeting times.

This API is supported in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Calendars.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Calendars.ReadWrite
Application	Calendars.ReadWrite

HTTP request

POST /me/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept

POST /me/calendar/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendar/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept

POST /me/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept

POST /me/calendarGroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendarGroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	string	Nature of the data in the body of an entity. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
comment	String	Text included in the response. Optional.
proposedNewTime	timeSlot	An alternate date/time proposed by an invitee for a meeting request to start and end. Valid only for events that allow new time proposals. Setting this parameter requires setting sendResponse to true. Optional.
sendResponse	Boolean	true if a response is to be sent to the organizer; otherwise, false. Optional. Default is true.

Response

If successful, this method returns 202 Accepted response code. It does not return anything in the response body.

This action returns HTTP 400 if one or both of the following occur:

• The proposedNewTime parameter is included but the allowNewTimeProposals property of the event is false.
• The proposedNewTime parameter is included but the sendResponse parameter is set to false.

Example

Here is an example of how to call this API.

Request

In the following example, the signed-in user responds tentative to the specified event, sets the sendResponse parameter to true, and includes an alternative time in the proposedNewTime parameter.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept
Content-type: application/json

{
  "comment": "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?",
  "sendResponse": true,
  "proposedNewTime": {
      "start": { 
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T18:00:00", 
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" 
      }, 
      "end": { 
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T19:00:00", 
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" 
      }     
  }
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var requestBody = new Microsoft.Graph.Me.Events.Item.TentativelyAccept.TentativelyAcceptPostRequestBody
{
	Comment = "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?",
	SendResponse = true,
	ProposedNewTime = new TimeSlot
	{
		Start = new DateTimeTimeZone
		{
			DateTime = "2019-12-02T18:00:00",
			TimeZone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		},
		End = new DateTimeTimeZone
		{
			DateTime = "2019-12-02T19:00:00",
			TimeZone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		},
	},
};
await graphClient.Me.Events["{event-id}"].TentativelyAccept.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users events tentatively-accept post --user-id {user-id} --event-id {event-id} --body '{\
  "comment": "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?",\
  "sendResponse": true,\
  "proposedNewTime": {\
      "start": { \
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T18:00:00", \
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" \
      }, \
      "end": { \
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T19:00:00", \
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" \
      }     \
  }\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphusers.NewItemTentativelyAcceptPostRequestBody()
comment := "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?"
requestBody.SetComment(&comment) 
sendResponse := true
requestBody.SetSendResponse(&sendResponse) 
proposedNewTime := graphmodels.NewTimeSlot()
start := graphmodels.NewDateTimeTimeZone()
dateTime := "2019-12-02T18:00:00"
start.SetDateTime(&dateTime) 
timeZone := "Pacific Standard Time"
start.SetTimeZone(&timeZone) 
proposedNewTime.SetStart(start)
end := graphmodels.NewDateTimeTimeZone()
dateTime := "2019-12-02T19:00:00"
end.SetDateTime(&dateTime) 
timeZone := "Pacific Standard Time"
end.SetTimeZone(&timeZone) 
proposedNewTime.SetEnd(end)
requestBody.SetProposedNewTime(proposedNewTime)

graphClient.Me().Events().ByEventId("event-id").TentativelyAccept().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

String comment = "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?";

Boolean sendResponse = true;

TimeSlot proposedNewTime = new TimeSlot();
DateTimeTimeZone start = new DateTimeTimeZone();
start.dateTime = "2019-12-02T18:00:00";
start.timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time";
proposedNewTime.start = start;
DateTimeTimeZone end = new DateTimeTimeZone();
end.dateTime = "2019-12-02T19:00:00";
end.timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time";
proposedNewTime.end = end;

graphClient.me().events("{id}")
	.tentativelyAccept(EventTentativelyAcceptParameterSet
		.newBuilder()
		.withProposedNewTime(proposedNewTime)
		.withSendResponse(sendResponse)
		.withComment(comment)
		.build())
	.buildRequest()
	.post();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const tentativelyAccept = {
  comment: 'I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?',
  sendResponse: true,
  proposedNewTime: {
      start: { 
          dateTime: '2019-12-02T18:00:00', 
          timeZone: 'Pacific Standard Time' 
      }, 
      end: { 
          dateTime: '2019-12-02T19:00:00', 
          timeZone: 'Pacific Standard Time' 
      }     
  }
};

await client.api('/me/events/{id}/tentativelyAccept')
	.post(tentativelyAccept);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new TentativelyAcceptPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setComment('I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?');
$requestBody->setSendResponse(true);
$proposedNewTime = new TimeSlot();
$proposedNewTimeStart = new DateTimeTimeZone();
$proposedNewTimeStart->setDateTime('2019-12-02T18:00:00');
$proposedNewTimeStart->setTimeZone('Pacific Standard Time');
$proposedNewTime->setStart($proposedNewTimeStart);
$proposedNewTimeEnd = new DateTimeTimeZone();
$proposedNewTimeEnd->setDateTime('2019-12-02T19:00:00');
$proposedNewTimeEnd->setTimeZone('Pacific Standard Time');
$proposedNewTime->setEnd($proposedNewTimeEnd);
$requestBody->setProposedNewTime($proposedNewTime);

$graphServiceClient->me()->events()->byEventId('event-id')->tentativelyAccept()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users.Actions

$params = @{
	comment = "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?"
	sendResponse = $true
	proposedNewTime = @{
		start = @{
			dateTime = "2019-12-02T18:00:00"
			timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time"
		}
		end = @{
			dateTime = "2019-12-02T19:00:00"
			timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time"
		}
	}
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Invoke-MgAcceptUserEventTentatively -UserId $userId -EventId $eventId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(request_adapter)

request_body = TentativelyAcceptPostRequestBody(
	comment = "I may not be able to make this week. How about next week?",
	send_response = True,
	proposed_new_time = TimeSlot(
		start = DateTimeTimeZone(
			date_time = "2019-12-02T18:00:00",
			time_zone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		),
		end = DateTimeTimeZone(
			date_time = "2019-12-02T19:00:00",
			time_zone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		),
	),
)

await graph_client.me.events.by_event_id('event-id').tentatively_accept.post(body = request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted