Create a content type

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new contentType 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	Sites.FullControl.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Sites.Manage.All	Sites.FullControl.All

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/contentTypes

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 contentType resource to create.

Response

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

Example

The following example shows how to create a new generic content type.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{id}/contentTypes
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "name": "docSet",
    "description": "custom docset",
    "base": {
        "name": "Document Set",
        "id": "0x0120D520"
    },
    "group": "Document Set Content Types" 
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ContentType
{
	Name = "docSet",
	Description = "custom docset",
	Base = new ContentType
	{
		Name = "Document Set",
		Id = "0x0120D520",
	},
	Group = "Document Set Content Types",
};

// 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}"].ContentTypes.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 content-types create --site-id {site-id} --body '{\
    "name": "docSet",\
    "description": "custom docset",\
    "base": {\
        "name": "Document Set",\
        "id": "0x0120D520"\
    },\
    "group": "Document Set Content Types" \
}\
'

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.NewContentType()
name := "docSet"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
description := "custom docset"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
base := graphmodels.NewContentType()
name := "Document Set"
base.SetName(&name) 
id := "0x0120D520"
base.SetId(&id) 
requestBody.SetBase(base)
group := "Document Set Content Types"
requestBody.SetGroup(&group) 

contentTypes, err := graphClient.Sites().BySiteId("site-id").ContentTypes().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

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ContentType contentType = new ContentType();
contentType.setName("docSet");
contentType.setDescription("custom docset");
ContentType base = new ContentType();
base.setName("Document Set");
base.setId("0x0120D520");
contentType.setBase(base);
contentType.setGroup("Document Set Content Types");
ContentType result = graphClient.sites().bySiteId("{site-id}").contentTypes().post(contentType);

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 contentType = {
    name: 'docSet',
    description: 'custom docset',
    base: {
        name: 'Document Set',
        id: '0x0120D520'
    },
    group: 'Document Set Content Types' 
};

await client.api('/sites/{id}/contentTypes')
	.post(contentType);

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\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ContentType;


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

$requestBody = new ContentType();
$requestBody->setName('docSet');
$requestBody->setDescription('custom docset');
$base = new ContentType();
$base->setName('Document Set');
$base->setId('0x0120D520');
$requestBody->setBase($base);
$requestBody->setGroup('Document Set Content Types');

$result = $graphServiceClient->sites()->bySiteId('site-id')->contentTypes()->post($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 = @{
	name = "docSet"
	description = "custom docset"
	base = @{
		name = "Document Set"
		id = "0x0120D520"
	}
	group = "Document Set Content Types"
}

New-MgSiteContentType -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

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.content_type import ContentType

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ContentType(
	name = "docSet",
	description = "custom docset",
	base = ContentType(
		name = "Document Set",
		id = "0x0120D520",
	),
	group = "Document Set Content Types",
)

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

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

Response

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

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

{
  "id": "0x01002A2479FF33DD4BC3B1533A012B653717",
  "name": "docSet",
  "group":"Document Set Content Types",
  "description" : "custom docset",
  "base": {
        "name": "Document Set",
        "id": "0x0120D520"
   }
}