userTeamwork: sendActivityNotification

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Send an activity feed notification to a user. For more information, see sending Teams activity notifications.

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) TeamsActivity.Send Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application TeamsActivity.Send.User TeamsActivity.Send

Note: The TeamsActivity.Send.User permission uses resource-specific consent.

HTTP request

POST /users/{userId | user-principal-name}/teamwork/sendActivityNotification

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 JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table shows the parameters that can be used with this action.

Parameter Type Description
topic teamworkActivityTopic The topic of the notification. Specifies the resource being talked about.
activityType String The activity type must be declared in the Teams app manifest, except for the systemDefault Reserved activity type, which provides free-form text in the Actor+Reason line of the notification.
chainId Int64 Optional. The chain ID of the notification. Used to override a previous notification. Use the same chainId in subsequent requests to override the previous notification.
previewText itemBody The preview text for the notification. Microsoft Teams shows the first 150 characters.
templateParameters keyValuePair collection The values for the template variables defined in the activity feed entry corresponding to activityType in the Teams app manifest.
teamsAppId String Optional. The Teams app ID of the Teams app associated with the notification. Used to disambiguate installed apps when multiple apps with the same Microsoft Entra ID app ID are installed for the same recipient user. Avoid sharing Microsoft Entra ID app IDs between Teams apps.

The following resources are supported when setting the source value of the topic property to entityUrl:

Response

If successful, this action returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Example 1: Send notification to a user for a task created

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{userId}/teamwork/sendActivityNotification
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "topic": {
        "source": "entityUrl",
        "value": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{userId}/teamwork/installedApps/{installationId}"
    },
    "activityType": "taskCreated",
    "previewText": {
        "content": "New Task Created"
    },
    "templateParameters": [
        {
            "name": "taskId",
            "value": "Task 12322"
        }
    ]
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Example 2: Notify a user about an event using a custom topic

If you want to link an aspect that Microsoft Graph doesn't represent, or you want to customize the name, you can set the source of the topic to text and pass in a custom value for it. webUrl is required when using topic source as text.

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/{userId}/teamwork/sendActivityNotification
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "topic": {
        "source": "text",
        "value": "Deployment Approvals Channel",
        "webUrl": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:448cfd2ac2a7490a9084a9ed14cttr78c@thread.skype/1605223780000?tenantId=c8b1bf45-3834-4ecf-971a-b4c755ee677d&groupId=d4c2a937-f097-435a-bc91-5c1683ca7245&parentMessageId=1605223771864&teamName=Approvals&channelName=Azure%20DevOps&createdTime=1605223780000"
    },
    "activityType": "deploymentApprovalRequired",
    "previewText": {
        "content": "New deployment requires your approval"
    },
    "templateParameters": [
        {
            "name": "deploymentId",
            "value": "6788662"
        }
    ]
}

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content