Create externalGroup

Namespace: microsoft.graph.externalConnectors

Create a new externalGroup 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)	ExternalItem.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	ExternalItem.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ExternalItem.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	ExternalItem.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /external/connections/{connectionsId}/groups

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

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

You can specify the following properties when creating an externalGroup.

Property	Type	Description
id	String	The unique ID of the external group within a connection. It must be alphanumeric and can be up to 128 characters long. Required.
displayName	String	The friendly name of the external group. Optional.
description	String	The description of the external group. Optional.

Response

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

Example

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/external/connections/contosohr/groups
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": "31bea3d537902000",
  "displayName": "Contoso Marketing",
  "description": "The product marketing team"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models.ExternalConnectors;

var requestBody = new ExternalGroup
{
	Id = "31bea3d537902000",
	DisplayName = "Contoso Marketing",
	Description = "The product marketing team",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.External.Connections["{externalConnection-id}"].Groups.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 external connections groups create --external-connection-id {externalConnection-id} --body '{\
  "id": "31bea3d537902000",\
  "displayName": "Contoso Marketing",\
  "description": "The product marketing team"\
}\
'

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"
	  graphmodelsexternalconnectors "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models/externalconnectors"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodelsexternalconnectors.NewExternalGroup()
id := "31bea3d537902000"
requestBody.SetId(&id) 
displayName := "Contoso Marketing"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "The product marketing team"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 

groups, err := graphClient.External().Connections().ByExternalConnectionId("externalConnection-id").Groups().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();

ExternalGroup externalGroup = new ExternalGroup();
externalGroup.id = "31bea3d537902000";
externalGroup.displayName = "Contoso Marketing";
externalGroup.description = "The product marketing team";

graphClient.external().connections("contosohr").groups()
	.buildRequest()
	.post(externalGroup);

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 externalGroup = {
  id: '31bea3d537902000',
  displayName: 'Contoso Marketing',
  description: 'The product marketing team'
};

await client.api('/external/connections/contosohr/groups')
	.post(externalGroup);

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 ExternalGroup();
$requestBody->setId('31bea3d537902000');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Contoso Marketing');
$requestBody->setDescription('The product marketing team');

$result = $graphServiceClient->external()->connections()->byExternalConnectionId('externalConnection-id')->groups()->post($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.Search

$params = @{
	id = "31bea3d537902000"
	displayName = "Contoso Marketing"
	description = "The product marketing team"
}

New-MgExternalConnectionGroup -ExternalConnectionId $externalConnectionId -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(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ExternalGroup(
	id = "31bea3d537902000",
	display_name = "Contoso Marketing",
	description = "The product marketing team",
)

result = await graph_client.external.connections.by_external_connection_id('externalConnection-id').groups.post(request_body)

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

Response

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

{
  "id": "31bea3d537902000",
  "displayName": "Contoso Marketing",
  "description": "The product marketing team"
}