Create personName
Namespace: microsoft.graph
Important
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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.
Use this API to create a new personName object in a user's profile.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
Global service | US Government L4 | US Government L5 (DOD) | China operated by 21Vianet |
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✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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) | User.Read | User.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All, User.ReadWrite, User.ReadWrite.All |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) | User.Read | User.ReadWrite |
Application | Not supported. | Not supported. |
HTTP request
POST /me/profile/names
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/names
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 a JSON representation of the personName object.
The following table shows the properties that are possible to set when you create a personName object.
Property | Type | Description |
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allowedAudiences | String | The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: me , family , contacts , groupMembers , organization , federatedOrganizations , everyone , unknownFutureValue . |
displayName | String | Provides an ordered rendering of firstName and lastName depending on the locale of the user or their device. |
first | String | First name of the user. |
id | String | Identifier used for individually addressing the entity. Inherited from entity |
inference | inferenceData | Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet. |
initials | String | Initials of the user. |
languageTag | String | Contains the name for the language (en-US, no-NB, en-AU) following IETF BCP47 format. |
last | String | Last name of the user. |
maiden | String | Maiden name of the user. |
middle | String | Middle name of the user. |
nickname | String | Nickname of the user. |
pronunciation | yomiPersonName | Guidance on how to pronounce the users name. |
suffix | String | Designators used after the users name (for example: PhD.) |
title | String | Honorifics used to prefix a users' name (for example: Dr, Sir, Madam, Mrs.) |
Response
If successful, this method returns 201, Created
response code and a new personName object in the response body.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/names
Content-type: application/json
{
"displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
"first": "Innocenty",
"initials": "IP",
"last": "Popov",
"languageTag": "en-US",
"maiden": null
}
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
{
"id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
"allowedAudiences": "organization",
"inference": null,
"createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
"createdBy": {
"application": null,
"device": null,
"user": {
"displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
"id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
}
},
"lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
"lastModifiedBy": {
"application": null,
"device": null,
"user": {
"displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
"id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
}
},
"displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
"first": "Innocenty",
"initials": "IP",
"last": "Popov",
"languageTag": "en-US",
"maiden": null,
"middle": null,
"nickname": null,
"suffix": null,
"title": null,
"pronunciation": null
}