Create printTaskDefinition

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new task definition.

For details about how to use this API to add pull printing support to Universal Print, see Extending Universal Print to support pull printing.

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

HTTP request

POST /print/taskDefinitions

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 printTaskDefinition object.

The id and createdBy.appId properties of the printTaskDefinition object are set automatically upon resource creation.

Response

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

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/print/taskDefinitions
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Test TaskDefinitionName",
  "createdBy": {
    "displayName": "Requesting App Display Name"
  }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new PrintTaskDefinition
{
	DisplayName = "Test TaskDefinitionName",
	CreatedBy = new AppIdentity
	{
		DisplayName = "Requesting App Display Name",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Print.TaskDefinitions.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc print task-definitions create --body '{\
  "displayName": "Test TaskDefinitionName",\
  "createdBy": {\
    "displayName": "Requesting App Display Name"\
  }\
}\
'

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.NewPrintTaskDefinition()
displayName := "Test TaskDefinitionName"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
createdBy := graphmodels.NewAppIdentity()
displayName := "Requesting App Display Name"
createdBy.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
requestBody.SetCreatedBy(createdBy)

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

PrintTaskDefinition printTaskDefinition = new PrintTaskDefinition();
printTaskDefinition.setDisplayName("Test TaskDefinitionName");
AppIdentity createdBy = new AppIdentity();
createdBy.setDisplayName("Requesting App Display Name");
printTaskDefinition.setCreatedBy(createdBy);
PrintTaskDefinition result = graphClient.print().taskDefinitions().post(printTaskDefinition);

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 printTaskDefinition = {
  displayName: 'Test TaskDefinitionName',
  createdBy: {
    displayName: 'Requesting App Display Name'
  }
};

await client.api('/print/taskDefinitions')
	.post(printTaskDefinition);

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\PrintTaskDefinition;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AppIdentity;


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

$requestBody = new PrintTaskDefinition();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Test TaskDefinitionName');
$createdBy = new AppIdentity();
$createdBy->setDisplayName('Requesting App Display Name');
$requestBody->setCreatedBy($createdBy);

$result = $graphServiceClient->escapedPrint()->taskDefinitions()->post($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.Devices.CloudPrint

$params = @{
	displayName = "Test TaskDefinitionName"
	createdBy = @{
		displayName = "Requesting App Display Name"
	}
}

New-MgPrintTaskDefinition -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.print_task_definition import PrintTaskDefinition
from msgraph.generated.models.app_identity import AppIdentity
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = PrintTaskDefinition(
	display_name = "Test TaskDefinitionName",
	created_by = AppIdentity(
		display_name = "Requesting App Display Name",
	),
)

result = await graph_client.print.task_definitions.post(request_body)

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

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/$metadata#print/taskDefinitions/$entity",
  "id": "fab143fd-ee61-4358-8558-2c7dee953982",
  "displayName": "Test TaskDefinitionName",
  "createdBy": {
    "appId": "815f204f-c791-4ee6-9098-614ecdb003f6",
    "displayName": "Requesting App Display Name"
  }
}