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 engagementRoleMember object that assigns a Viva Engage role to 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
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) |
EngagementRole.ReadWrite.All |
Not available. |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
| Application |
EngagementRole.ReadWrite.All |
Not available. |
HTTP request
POST /employeeExperience/roles/{engagementRoleId}/members
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the engagementRoleMember object.
You can specify the following properties when you create an engagementRoleMember.
| Property |
Type |
Description |
| createdDateTime |
DateTimeOffset |
The date and time when the role was assigned to the user. The timestamp type represents date and time information using ISO 8601 format and is always in UTC. For example, midnight UTC on Jan 1, 2014 is 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z. |
| userId |
String |
The Microsoft Entra ID of the user who has the role assigned. |
Response
If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an engagementRoleMember object in the response body.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/employeeExperience/roles/a40473a5-0fb4-a250-e029-f6fe33d07733/members
Content-Type: application/json
{
"user@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01')"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;
var requestBody = new EngagementRoleMember
{
AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{
"user@odata.bind" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01')"
},
},
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.EmployeeExperience.Roles["{engagementRole-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);
// 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.NewEngagementRoleMember()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
"user@odata.bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01')",
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.EmployeeExperience().Roles().ByEngagementRoleId("engagementRole-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
EngagementRoleMember engagementRoleMember = new EngagementRoleMember();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("user@odata.bind", "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01')");
engagementRoleMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
EngagementRoleMember result = graphClient.employeeExperience().roles().byEngagementRoleId("{engagementRole-id}").members().post(engagementRoleMember);
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const engagementRoleMember = {
'user@odata.bind': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users(\'e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01\')'
};
await client.api('/employeeExperience/roles/a40473a5-0fb4-a250-e029-f6fe33d07733/members')
.version('beta')
.post(engagementRoleMember);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\EngagementRoleMember;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new EngagementRoleMember();
$additionalData = [
'user@odata.bind' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users(\'e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01\')',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$result = $graphServiceClient->employeeExperience()->roles()->byEngagementRoleId('engagementRole-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.engagement_role_member import EngagementRoleMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = EngagementRoleMember(
additional_data = {
"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01')",
}
)
result = await graph_client.employee_experience.roles.by_engagement_role_id('engagementRole-id').members.post(request_body)
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.engagementRoleMember",
"id": "a40473a5-0fb4-a250-e029-f6fe33d07733",
"userId": "e8d9f6a2-1c34-4b7a-9f11-2a4d8b7c9e01",
"createdDateTime": "2025-09-22T14:03:00Z"
}