Create a new list

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new list in a site.

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)	Sites.Manage.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Sites.Manage.All	Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/lists

Request headers

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

Request body

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

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following is an example of how to create a new generic list.

Note: Custom columns are optional.

In addition to any columns specified here, new lists are created with columns defined in the referenced template. If the list facet or template is unspecified, the list defaults to the genericList template, which includes a Title column.

HTTP

POST /sites/{site-id}/lists
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Books",
  "columns": [
    {
      "name": "Author",
      "text": { }
    },
    {
      "name": "PageCount",
      "number": { }
    }
  ],
  "list": {
    "template": "genericList"
  }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new List
{
	DisplayName = "Books",
	Columns = new List<ColumnDefinition>
	{
		new ColumnDefinition
		{
			Name = "Author",
			Text = new TextColumn
			{
			},
		},
		new ColumnDefinition
		{
			Name = "PageCount",
			Number = new NumberColumn
			{
			},
		},
	},
	List = new ListInfo
	{
		Template = "genericList",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Sites["{site-id}"].Lists.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 sites lists create --site-id {site-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Books",\
  "columns": [\
    {\
      "name": "Author",\
      "text": { }\
    },\
    {\
      "name": "PageCount",\
      "number": { }\
    }\
  ],\
  "list": {\
    "template": "genericList"\
  }\
}\
'

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewList()
displayName := "Books"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 


columnDefinition := graphmodels.NewColumnDefinition()
name := "Author"
columnDefinition.SetName(&name) 
text := graphmodels.NewTextColumn()
columnDefinition.SetText(text)
columnDefinition1 := graphmodels.NewColumnDefinition()
name := "PageCount"
columnDefinition1.SetName(&name) 
number := graphmodels.NewNumberColumn()
columnDefinition1.SetNumber(number)

columns := []graphmodels.ColumnDefinitionable {
	columnDefinition,
	columnDefinition1,
}
requestBody.SetColumns(columns)
list := graphmodels.NewListInfo()
template := "genericList"
list.SetTemplate(&template) 
requestBody.SetList(list)

lists, err := graphClient.Sites().BySiteId("site-id").Lists().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();

List list = new List();
list.displayName = "Books";
LinkedList<ColumnDefinition> columnsList = new LinkedList<ColumnDefinition>();
ColumnDefinition columns = new ColumnDefinition();
columns.name = "Author";
TextColumn text = new TextColumn();
columns.text = text;
columnsList.add(columns);
ColumnDefinition columns1 = new ColumnDefinition();
columns1.name = "PageCount";
NumberColumn number = new NumberColumn();
columns1.number = number;
columnsList.add(columns1);
ColumnDefinitionCollectionResponse columnDefinitionCollectionResponse = new ColumnDefinitionCollectionResponse();
columnDefinitionCollectionResponse.value = columnsList;
ColumnDefinitionCollectionPage columnDefinitionCollectionPage = new ColumnDefinitionCollectionPage(columnDefinitionCollectionResponse, null);
list.columns = columnDefinitionCollectionPage;
ListInfo list = new ListInfo();
list.template = "genericList";
list.list = list;

graphClient.sites("{site-id}").lists()
	.buildRequest()
	.post(list);

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 list = {
  displayName: 'Books',
  columns: [
    {
      name: 'Author',
      text: { }
    },
    {
      name: 'PageCount',
      number: { }
    }
  ],
  list: {
    template: 'genericList'
  }
};

await client.api('/sites/{site-id}/lists')
	.post(list);

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 EscapedList();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Books');
$columnsColumnDefinition1 = new ColumnDefinition();
$columnsColumnDefinition1->setName('Author');
$columnsColumnDefinition1Text = new TextColumn();
$columnsColumnDefinition1->setText($columnsColumnDefinition1Text);
$columnsArray []= $columnsColumnDefinition1;
$columnsColumnDefinition2 = new ColumnDefinition();
$columnsColumnDefinition2->setName('PageCount');
$columnsColumnDefinition2Number = new NumberColumn();
$columnsColumnDefinition2->setNumber($columnsColumnDefinition2Number);
$columnsArray []= $columnsColumnDefinition2;
$requestBody->setColumns($columnsArray);

$list = new ListInfo();
$list->setTemplate('genericList');
$requestBody->setEscapedList($list);

$result = $graphServiceClient->sites()->bySiteId('site-id')->lists()->post($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.Sites

$params = @{
	displayName = "Books"
	columns = @(
		@{
			name = "Author"
			text = @{
			}
		}
		@{
			name = "PageCount"
			number = @{
			}
		}
	)
	list = @{
		template = "genericList"
	}
}

New-MgSiteList -SiteId $siteId -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 = List_(
	display_name = "Books",
	columns = [
		ColumnDefinition(
			name = "Author",
			text = TextColumn(
			),
		),
		ColumnDefinition(
			name = "PageCount",
			number = NumberColumn(
			),
		),
	],
	list = ListInfo(
		template = "genericList",
	),
)

result = await graph_client.sites.by_site_id('site-id').lists.post(request_body)

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.

Note: The response object is truncated for clarity. Default properties will be returned from the actual call.

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

{
  "id": "22e03ef3-6ef4-424d-a1d3-92a337807c30",
  "createdDateTime": "2017-04-30T01:21:00Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "8606e4d5-d582-4f5f-aeba-7d7c18b20cfd"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-08-30T08:26:00Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "8606e4d5-d582-4f5f-aeba-7d7c18b20cfd"
    }
  }
}