Create columnDefinition for a site

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.

Create a column for a site by specifying 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
✅	✅	✅	✅

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

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/columns

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the columnDefinition resource to add.

Response

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

Example

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/{site-id}/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

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
   }
}