Update workPosition

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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Update the properties of a workPosition object in a user's profile.

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

HTTP request

PATCH /me/profile/positions/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/positions/{id}

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 the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

Properties

Property Type Description
allowedAudiences String The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: me, family, contacts, groupMembers, organization, federatedOrganizations, everyone, unknownFutureValue.
categories String collection Categories that the user has associated with this position.
colleagues relatedPerson collection Colleagues that are associated with this position.
detail positionDetail Contains detailed information about the position.
inference inferenceData Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
isCurrent Boolean Denotes whether or not the position is current.
manager relatedPerson Contains detail of the user's manager in this position.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated workPosition object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/positions/{id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "isCurrent": true
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "inference": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "source": null,
  "categories": null,
  "detail": {
    "company": {
      "displayName": "Adventureworks Ltd.",
      "pronunciation": null,
      "department": "Consulting",
      "companyCode": "A-101",
      "officeLocation": "AW23/344",
      "address": {
        "type": "business",
        "postOfficeBox": null,
        "street": "123 Patriachy Ponds",
        "city": "Moscow",
        "state": null,
        "countryOrRegion": "Russian Federation",
        "postalCode": "RU-34621"
      },
      "webUrl": "https://www.adventureworks.com"
    },
    "description": null,
    "endMonthYear": null,
    "jobTitle": "Senior Product Branding Manager II",
    "role": "consulting",
    "startMonthYear": "datetime-value",
    "summary": null
  },
  "manager": null,
  "colleagues": null,
  "isCurrent": true
}