Create a new item in a list

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 listItem in a list.

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

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the listItem resource to create.

Example

Here is an example of how to create a new generic list item.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "fields": {
    "Title": "Widget",
    "Color": "Purple",
    "Weight": 32
  }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new ListItem
{
	Fields = new FieldValueSet
	{
		AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
		{
			{
				"Title" , "Widget"
			},
			{
				"Color" , "Purple"
			},
			{
				"Weight" , 32
			},
		},
	},
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta sites lists items create --site-id {site-id} --list-id {list-id} --body '{\
  "fields": {\
    "Title": "Widget",\
    "Color": "Purple",\
    "Weight": 32\
  }\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $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.NewListItem()
fields := graphmodels.NewFieldValueSet()
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"title" : "Widget", 
	"color" : "Purple", 
	"weight" : int32(32) , 
}
fields.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)
requestBody.SetFields(fields)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
items, err := graphClient.Sites().BySiteId("site-id").Lists().ByListId("list-id").Items().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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);

ListItem listItem = new ListItem();
FieldValueSet fields = new FieldValueSet();
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("Title", "Widget");
additionalData.put("Color", "Purple");
additionalData.put("Weight", 32);
fields.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
listItem.setFields(fields);
ListItem result = graphClient.sites().bySiteId("{site-id}").lists().byListId("{list-id}").items().post(listItem);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 listItem = {
  fields: {
    Title: 'Widget',
    Color: 'Purple',
    Weight: 32
  }
};

await client.api('/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items')
	.version('beta')
	.post(listItem);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ListItem;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\FieldValueSet;


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

$requestBody = new ListItem();
$fields = new FieldValueSet();
$additionalData = [
	'Title' => 'Widget',
	'Color' => 'Purple',
	'Weight' => 32,
];
$fields->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$requestBody->setFields($fields);

$result = $graphServiceClient->sites()->bySiteId('site-id')->lists()->byListId('list-id')->items()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Sites

$params = @{
	fields = @{
		Title = "Widget"
		Color = "Purple"
		Weight = 
	}
}

New-MgBetaSiteListItem -SiteId $siteId -ListId $listId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Python

from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.list_item import ListItem
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.field_value_set import FieldValueSet

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ListItem(
	fields = FieldValueSet(
		additional_data = {
				"title" : "Widget",
				"color" : "Purple",
				"weight" : 32,
		}
	),
)

result = await graph_client.sites.by_site_id('site-id').lists.by_list_id('list-id').items.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

If successful, this method returns a listItem in the response body for the created list item.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "20",
  "createdDateTime": "2016-08-30T08:26:00Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "8606e4d5-d582-4f5f-aeba-7d7c18b20cfd"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-08-30T08:26:00Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "8606e4d5-d582-4f5f-aeba-7d7c18b20cfd"
    }
  }
}

Note: The response object is truncated for clarity. Default properties will be returned from the actual call.