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Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a columnDefinition for a fileStorageContainer that specifies 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 permission Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) FileStorageContainer.Selected Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application FileStorageContainer.Selected Not supported.

Note

In addition to Microsoft Graph permissions, your app also must have the necessary container-type level permission or permissions to call this API. For details about container types, see Container Types. To learn more about container-type level permissions, see SharePoint Embedded Authorization.

HTTP request

POST /storage/fileStorage/containers/{containerId}/columns

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 columnDefinition object.

Only the following type-related properties are supported and they're mutually exclusive; a column can only have one of them specified at a time.

Property Type Description
Boolean booleanColumn This column stores Boolean values.
choice choiceColumn This column stores data from a list of choices.
currency currencyColumn This column stores currency values.
dateTime dateTimeColumn This column stores DateTime values.
hyperlinkOrPicture hyperlinkOrPictureColumn This column stores hyperlink or picture values.
number numberColumn This column stores number values.
personOrGroup personOrGroupColumn This column stores Person or Group values.
text textColumn This column stores text values.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/storage/fileStorage/containers/b!ISJs1WRro0y0EWgkUYcktDa0mE8zSlFEqFzqRn70Zwp1CEtDEBZgQICPkRbil_5Z/columns
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "description": "test",
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,
  "hidden": false,
  "indexed": false,
  "name": "Title",
  "text": {
    "allowMultipleLines": false,
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,
    "linesForEditing": 0,
    "maxLength": 255
  }
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "description": "test",
  "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
  }
}