Create calendar

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 new calendar for a user.

This API is available 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)	Calendars.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Calendars.ReadWrite
Application	Calendars.ReadWrite

HTTP request

POST /me/calendars
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json

Request body

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

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/calendars
Content-type: application/json

{
  "name": "Volunteer"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new Calendar
{
	Name = "Volunteer",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Calendars.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta users calendars create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "name": "Volunteer"\
}\
\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewCalendar()
name := "Volunteer"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
calendars, err := graphClient.Me().Calendars().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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);

Calendar calendar = new Calendar();
calendar.setName("Volunteer");
Calendar result = graphClient.me().calendars().post(calendar);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 calendar = {
  name: 'Volunteer'
};

await client.api('/me/calendars')
	.version('beta')
	.post(calendar);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Calendar;


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

$requestBody = new Calendar();
$requestBody->setName('Volunteer');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->calendars()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Calendar

$params = @{
	name = "Volunteer"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserCalendar -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.calendar import Calendar
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Calendar(
	name = "Volunteer",
)

result = await graph_client.me.calendars.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

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

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#me/calendars/$entity",
    "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('266efe5a-0fd7-4edd-877b-b2d1e561f193@ae01a323-3934-4475-a32d-af1274312bb0')/calendars('AAMkADJmMVAAA=')",
    "id":"AAMkADJmMVAAA=",
    "name":"Volunteer",
    "color":"auto",
    "isDefaultCalendar":false,
    "changeKey":"DxYSthXJXEWwAQSYQnXvIgAAIxGttg==",
    "calendarGroupId":null,
    "canShare":true,
    "canViewPrivateItems":true,
    "hexColor": "",
    "isShared":false,
    "isSharedWithMe":false,
    "canEdit":true,
    "allowedOnlineMeetingProviders": [
                "teamsForBusiness"
            ],
    "defaultOnlineMeetingProvider": "teamsForBusiness",
    "isTallyingResponses": true,
    "isRemovable": false,
    "owner":{
        "name":"Samantha Booth",
        "address":"samanthab@contoso.com"
    }
}