Create Outlook category

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create an outlookCategory object in the user's master list of categories.

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)	MailboxSettings.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	MailboxSettings.ReadWrite	Not available.
Application	MailboxSettings.ReadWrite	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/outlook/masterCategories
POST /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/outlook/masterCategories

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 an outlookCategory object.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/outlook/masterCategories
Content-type: application/json
Content-Length: 70

{
   "displayName": "Project expenses",
   "color": "preset9"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new OutlookCategory
{
	DisplayName = "Project expenses",
	Color = CategoryColor.Preset9,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Outlook.MasterCategories.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 outlook master-categories create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
   "displayName": "Project expenses",\
   "color": "preset9"\
}\
'

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.NewOutlookCategory()
displayName := "Project expenses"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
color := graphmodels.PRESET9_CATEGORYCOLOR 
requestBody.SetColor(&color) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
masterCategories, err := graphClient.Me().Outlook().MasterCategories().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);

OutlookCategory outlookCategory = new OutlookCategory();
outlookCategory.setDisplayName("Project expenses");
outlookCategory.setColor(CategoryColor.Preset9);
OutlookCategory result = graphClient.me().outlook().masterCategories().post(outlookCategory);

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 outlookCategory = {
   displayName: 'Project expenses',
   color: 'preset9'
};

await client.api('/me/outlook/masterCategories')
	.post(outlookCategory);

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\OutlookCategory;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\CategoryColor;


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

$requestBody = new OutlookCategory();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Project expenses');
$requestBody->setColor(new CategoryColor('preset9'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->outlook()->masterCategories()->post($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.Users

$params = @{
	displayName = "Project expenses"
	color = "preset9"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserOutlookMasterCategory -UserId $userId -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.outlook_category import OutlookCategory
from msgraph.generated.models.category_color import CategoryColor
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = OutlookCategory(
	display_name = "Project expenses",
	color = CategoryColor.Preset9,
)

result = await graph_client.me.outlook.master_categories.post(request_body)

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.

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/$metadata#users('8ae6f565-0d7f-4ead-853e-7db94c912a1f')/outlook/masterCategories/$entity",
   "id": "bac262b7-485d-4739-b436-e31467d64fac",
   "displayName": "Project expenses",
   "color": "preset9"
}