Update outlookCategory

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the writable property, color, of the specified outlookCategory object. You can't modify the displayName property once you have created the category.

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

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

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
color	String	A preset color constant that characterizes a category, and that is mapped to one of 25 predefined colors.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated outlookCategory object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/outlook/masterCategories/bac262b7-485d-4739-b436-e31467d64fac
Content-type: application/json

{
  "color":"preset15"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new OutlookCategory
{
	Color = CategoryColor.Preset15,
};

// 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}"].PatchAsync(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 patch --user-id {user-id} --outlook-category-id {outlookCategory-id} --body '{\
  "color":"preset15"\
}\
'

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()
color := graphmodels.PRESET15_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().ByOutlookCategoryId("outlookCategory-id").Patch(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.setColor(CategoryColor.Preset15);
OutlookCategory result = graphClient.me().outlook().masterCategories().byOutlookCategoryId("{outlookCategory-id}").patch(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 = {
  color: 'preset15'
};

await client.api('/me/outlook/masterCategories/bac262b7-485d-4739-b436-e31467d64fac')
	.update(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->setColor(new CategoryColor('preset15'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->outlook()->masterCategories()->byOutlookCategoryId('outlookCategory-id')->patch($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 = @{
	color = "preset15"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Update-MgUserOutlookMasterCategory -UserId $userId -OutlookCategoryId $outlookCategoryId -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(
	color = CategoryColor.Preset15,
)

result = await graph_client.me.outlook.master_categories.by_outlook_category_id('outlookCategory-id').patch(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/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('8ae6f565-0d7f-4ead-853e-7db94c912a1f')/outlook/masterCategories/$entity",
  "id":"bac262b7-485d-4739-b436-e31467d64fac",
  "displayName":"Project expenses",
  "color":"preset15"
}