Create term

Namespace: microsoft.graph.termStore

Create a new term object.

This API is supported in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account) TermStore.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported.
Application 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.
Content-Type application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the term object.

The following table shows 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"
}