Create referenceDefinition

Namespace: microsoft.graph.industryData

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Create a new referenceDefinition object.

referenceDefinition objects associate incoming data with standardized reference types values for validation.

You can extend the following reference types with other codes that better align with your source data.

Name	ReferenceType
Academic Subjects	RefAcademicSubject
Demographic: Race	RefRace
Demographic: Ethnicity	RefEthnicity
Grade Level	RefGradeLevel
Organization Types	RefOrgType
Person Flags	RefPersonFlagType

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)	IndustryData-ReferenceDefinition.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	IndustryData-ReferenceDefinition.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /external/industryData/referenceDefinitions

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 referenceDefinition object.

The following table lists the required and optional properties for creating a referenceDefinition object.

Property	Type	Description
referenceType	String	The categorical type for a collection enumerated values. Required.
displayName	String	A human-readable representation of the reference code value for display in a user interface. Optional.
code	String	Code value for the definition. Must be unique within the referenceType. Required.
isDisabled	Boolean	Indicates whether the definition is disabled. Required.
sortIndex	Int32	The index that specifies the order in which to present the definition to the user. Must be unique within the referenceType. Required.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/external/industryData/referenceDefinitions
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition",
  "referenceType": "RefGradeLevel",
  "code": "TestGrade",
  "isDisabled": false,
  "sortIndex": 300,
  "displayName": "New Test Grade Level"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models.IndustryData;

var requestBody = new ReferenceDefinition
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition",
	ReferenceType = "RefGradeLevel",
	Code = "TestGrade",
	IsDisabled = false,
	SortIndex = 300,
	DisplayName = "New Test Grade Level",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.External.IndustryData.ReferenceDefinitions.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta external industry-data reference-definitions create --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition",\
  "referenceType": "RefGradeLevel",\
  "code": "TestGrade",\
  "isDisabled": false,\
  "sortIndex": 300,\
  "displayName": "New Test Grade Level"\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodelsindustrydata "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models/industrydata"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodelsindustrydata.NewReferenceDefinition()
referenceType := "RefGradeLevel"
requestBody.SetReferenceType(&referenceType) 
code := "TestGrade"
requestBody.SetCode(&code) 
isDisabled := false
requestBody.SetIsDisabled(&isDisabled) 
sortIndex := int32(300)
requestBody.SetSortIndex(&sortIndex) 
displayName := "New Test Grade Level"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
referenceDefinitions, err := graphClient.External().IndustryData().ReferenceDefinitions().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.industrydata.ReferenceDefinition referenceDefinition = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.industrydata.ReferenceDefinition();
referenceDefinition.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition");
referenceDefinition.setReferenceType("RefGradeLevel");
referenceDefinition.setCode("TestGrade");
referenceDefinition.setIsDisabled(false);
referenceDefinition.setSortIndex(300);
referenceDefinition.setDisplayName("New Test Grade Level");
com.microsoft.graph.models.industrydata.ReferenceDefinition result = graphClient.external().industryData().referenceDefinitions().post(referenceDefinition);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 referenceDefinition = {
  '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition',
  referenceType: 'RefGradeLevel',
  code: 'TestGrade',
  isDisabled: false,
  sortIndex: 300,
  displayName: 'New Test Grade Level'
};

await client.api('/external/industryData/referenceDefinitions')
	.version('beta')
	.post(referenceDefinition);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\IndustryData\ReferenceDefinition;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ReferenceDefinition();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition');
$requestBody->setReferenceType('RefGradeLevel');
$requestBody->setCode('TestGrade');
$requestBody->setIsDisabled(false);
$requestBody->setSortIndex(300);
$requestBody->setDisplayName('New Test Grade Level');

$result = $graphServiceClient->external()->industryData()->referenceDefinitions()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Search

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition"
	referenceType = "RefGradeLevel"
	code = "TestGrade"
	isDisabled = $false
	sortIndex = 300
	displayName = "New Test Grade Level"
}

New-MgBetaExternalIndustryDataReferenceDefinition -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.industry_data.reference_definition import ReferenceDefinition
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ReferenceDefinition(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition",
	reference_type = "RefGradeLevel",
	code = "TestGrade",
	is_disabled = False,
	sort_index = 300,
	display_name = "New Test Grade Level",
)

result = await graph_client.external.industry_data.reference_definitions.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.industryData.referenceDefinition",
  "id": "RefGradeLevel-TestGrade",
  "referenceType": "RefGradeLevel",
  "displayName": "New Test Grade Level",
  "code": "TestGrade",
  "source": "Tenant Defined",
  "isDisabled": false,
  "sortIndex": 300,
  "createdDateTime": "2024-03-13T18:20:26.3796502Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2024-03-13T18:20:26.3796502Z"
}