workflow: restore

Namespace: microsoft.graph.identityGovernance

Restore a workflow that has been deleted. You can only restore a workflow that was deleted within the last 30 days before Microsoft Entra ID automatically permanently deletes it.

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)	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.Workflows	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.Workflows	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.All

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Lifecycle Workflows Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/deletedItems/workflows/{workflowId}/restore

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 200 OK response code and a microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.workflow in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/deletedItems/workflows/4c9c57b9-e1e9-4bed-a936-4fad9d8f5638/restore

C#

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

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

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

CLI

mgc identity-governance lifecycle-workflows deleted-items workflows microsoft-graph-identity-governance-restore post --workflow-id {workflow-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceRestore, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().DeletedItems().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").MicrosoftGraphIdentityGovernanceRestore().Post(context.Background(), 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);

var result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().deletedItems().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceRestore().post();

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);

await client.api('/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/deletedItems/workflows/4c9c57b9-e1e9-4bed-a936-4fad9d8f5638/restore')
	.post();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->identityGovernance()->lifecycleWorkflows()->deletedItems()->workflows()->byWorkflowId('workflow-id')->microsoftGraphIdentityGovernanceRestore()->post()->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.Identity.Governance

Restore-MgIdentityGovernanceLifecycleWorkflowDeletedItemWorkflow -WorkflowId $workflowId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.deleted_items.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').microsoft_graph_identity_governance_restore.post()

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.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#workflow",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.workflow",
    "category": "joiner",
    "description": "Configure new hire tasks for onboarding employees on their first day",
    "displayName": "Australia Onboard new hire employee",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2022-08-24T18:51:29.4301671Z",
    "createdDateTime": "2022-08-24T18:30:33.1050022Z",
    "deletedDateTime": null,
    "id": "4c9c57b9-e1e9-4bed-a936-4fad9d8f5638",
    "isEnabled": true,
    "isSchedulingEnabled": false,
    "nextScheduleRunDateTime": null,
    "version": 1,
    "executionConditions": null,
    "lastModifiedBy": {
        "id": "537b3620-fab7-435e-81bb-03fee751b789"
    },
    "tasks@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/deletedItems/workflows('4c9c57b9-e1e9-4bed-a936-4fad9d8f5638')('4c9c57b9-e1e9-4bed-a936-4fad9d8f5638')/tasks",
    "tasks": [],
    "createdBy": {
        "id": "537b3620-fab7-435e-81bb-03fee751b789"
    }
}