Create group

Namespace: microsoft.graph.termStore

Important

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Create a new group object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
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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)	TermStore.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /termStore/groups

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 group object.

The following table lists the properties that are required when you create the group.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Name of the group to be created.

Response

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

Examples

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/termStore/groups
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName" : "myGroup"
}

Response

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

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

{
  "id": "85825593-5593-8582-9355-828593558285",
  "createdDateTime": "2019-06-21T20:01:37Z",
  "description": "My term group",
  "scope" : "global",
  "displayName": "myGroup"  
}