Create term

Namespace: microsoft.graph.termStore

Create a new term object.

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

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/termStore/sets/{set-id}/children
POST /sites/{site-id}/termStore/sets/{set-id}/terms/{term-id}/children

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 term object.

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

Property Type Description
labels microsoft.graph.termStore.localizedLabel collection Label for the term to be created.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a microsoft.graph.termStore.term object in the response body.

Examples

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/microsoft.sharepoint.com,b9b0bc03-cbc4-40d2-aba9-2c9dd9821ddf,6a742cee-9216-4db5-8046-13a595684e74/termStore/sets/462bd0ae-30bb-4c58-845c-761ff6481ac1/children
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "labels": [
    {
      "languageTag" : "en-US",
      "name" : "Car",
      "isDefault" : true
    }
  ]
}

Response

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

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

{
  "createdDateTime": "2019-06-21T20:01:37Z",
  "id": "8ed8c9ea-7052-4c1d-a4d7-b9c10bffea6f",
  "labels" : [
      {
          "name" : "Car",
          "languageTag" : "en-US",
          "isDefault" : true
      }
  ],
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2019-06-21T20:01:37Z"
}