Get Outlook category

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get the properties and relationships of the specified outlookCategory object.

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

HTTP request

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

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

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 method returns a 200 OK response code and an outlookCategory object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/outlook/masterCategories/feafe4e8-52ff-488a-817f-cfea7e43ff8b

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.Me.Outlook.MasterCategories["{outlookCategory-id}"].GetAsync();

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 get --user-id {user-id} --outlook-category-id {outlookCategory-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
masterCategories, err := graphClient.Me().Outlook().MasterCategories().ByOutlookCategoryId("outlookCategory-id").Get(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);

OutlookCategory result = graphClient.me().outlook().masterCategories().byOutlookCategoryId("{outlookCategory-id}").get();

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);

let outlookCategory = await client.api('/me/outlook/masterCategories/feafe4e8-52ff-488a-817f-cfea7e43ff8b')
	.get();

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->me()->outlook()->masterCategories()->byOutlookCategoryId('outlookCategory-id')->get()->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

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserOutlookMasterCategory -UserId $userId -OutlookCategoryId $outlookCategoryId

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.me.outlook.master_categories.by_outlook_category_id('outlookCategory-id').get()

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/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('8ae6f565-0d7f-4ead-853e-7db94c912a1f')/outlook/masterCategories/$entity",
  "id":"de912e4d-c790-4da9-949c-ccd933aaa0f7",
  "displayName":"Yellow category",
  "color":"preset3"
}