Create column

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Create a column for a fileStorageContainer that specifies a columnDefinition.

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.

HTTP request

POST /storageContainers/{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/beta/storageContainers/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
  }
}