Pin a message in a chat

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Pin a chat message in the specified chat. This API cannot create a new chat; you must use the list chats method to retrieve the ID of an existing chat before you can pin a chat message.

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)	ChatMessage.Send	Chat.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Chat.ReadWrite.All	ChatMessage.ReadWriteSelected.Chat

HTTP request

POST /chats/{chat-Id}/pinnedMessages

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 ID of a chat message to pin.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/pinnedMessages
Content-Type: application/json
Content-length: 63

{
   "message@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new PinnedChatMessageInfo
{
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"message@odata.bind" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Chats["{chat-id}"].PinnedMessages.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc chats pinned-messages create --chat-id {chat-id} --body '{\
   "message@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832"\
}\
'

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 $v1.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewPinnedChatMessageInfo()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"message@odata.bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
pinnedMessages, err := graphClient.Chats().ByChatId("chat-id").PinnedMessages().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

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);

PinnedChatMessageInfo pinnedChatMessageInfo = new PinnedChatMessageInfo();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("message@odata.bind", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832");
pinnedChatMessageInfo.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
PinnedChatMessageInfo result = graphClient.chats().byChatId("{chat-id}").pinnedMessages().post(pinnedChatMessageInfo);

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 pinnedChatMessageInfo = {
   'message@odata.bind':'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832'
};

await client.api('/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/pinnedMessages')
	.post(pinnedChatMessageInfo);

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\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\PinnedChatMessageInfo;


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

$requestBody = new PinnedChatMessageInfo();
$additionalData = [
	'message@odata.bind' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->chats()->byChatId('chat-id')->pinnedMessages()->post($requestBody)->wait();

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.Teams

$params = @{
	"message@odata.bind" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832"
}

New-MgChatPinnedMessage -ChatId $chatId -BodyParameter $params

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 import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.pinned_chat_message_info import PinnedChatMessageInfo
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = PinnedChatMessageInfo(
	additional_data = {
			"message@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/19:2da4c29f6d7041eca70b638b43d45437@thread.v2/messages/1616964509832",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.chats.by_chat_id('chat-id').pinned_messages.post(request_body)

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.type": "#microsoft.graph.pinnedChatMessageInfo",
  "id": "1616964509832"
}

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