Create Calendar

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to create a new calendar in a calendar group 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

A user's default calendarGroup.

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

Any calendarGroup of a user.

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

Request headers

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

Request body

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

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/calendarGroups/AAMkADYAAAR9NR5AAA=/calendars
Content-type: application/json

{
  "name": "Marketing calendar"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Calendar
{
	Name = "Marketing calendar",
};

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

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

CLI

mgc users calendar-groups calendars create --user-id {user-id} --calendar-group-id {calendarGroup-id} --body '{\
  "name": "Marketing calendar"\
}\
'

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.NewCalendar()
name := "Marketing calendar"
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().CalendarGroups().ByCalendarGroupId("calendarGroup-id").Calendars().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);

Calendar calendar = new Calendar();
calendar.setName("Marketing calendar");
Calendar result = graphClient.me().calendarGroups().byCalendarGroupId("{calendarGroup-id}").calendars().post(calendar);

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: 'Marketing calendar'
};

await client.api('/me/calendarGroups/AAMkADYAAAR9NR5AAA=/calendars')
	.post(calendar);

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\Calendar;


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

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

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->calendarGroups()->byCalendarGroupId('calendarGroup-id')->calendars()->post($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.Calendar

$params = @{
	name = "Marketing calendar"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserCalendarGroupCalendar -UserId $userId -CalendarGroupId $calendarGroupId -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.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 = "Marketing calendar",
)

result = await graph_client.me.calendar_groups.by_calendar_group_id('calendarGroup-id').calendars.post(request_body)

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

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

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/v1.0/$metadata#users('68ca8ec0-11f8-456b-a785-70d9936650d5')/calendarGroups('AAMkADYAAAR9NR5AAA%3D')/calendars/$entity",
    "id": "AAMkADYCQM0GfRAAAcrRD-AAA=",
    "name": "Marketing calendar",
    "color": "auto",
    "changeKey": "4xTfgHLeDkOqYVAkDNBn0QAAHKl46A==",
    "canShare": true,
    "canViewPrivateItems": true,
    "canEdit": true,
    "owner": {
        "name": "Adele Vance",
        "address": "adelev@contoso.com"
    }
}