Update task

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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.

Update a print task.

For details about how to use this API to add pull printing support to Universal Print, see Extending Universal Print to support pull printing.

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

HTTP request

PATCH /print/taskDefinitions/{id}/tasks/{id}

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for the relevant printTask fields that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property Type Description
status String Include state and description values that describe the current state of the task.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated printTask object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/print/taskDefinitions/3203656e-6069-4e10-8147-d25290b00a3c/tasks/d036638b-1272-4bba-9227-732463823ed3

{
  "status": {
    "state": "completed",
    "description": "completed"
  }
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": "d036638b-1272-4bba-9227-732463823ed3",
  "parentUrl": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/print/printers/d5ef6ec4-07ca-4212-baf9-d45be126bfbb/jobs/44353",
  "status": {
    "state": "completed",
    "description": "Task execution is completed."
  }
}