Create approvalItem

Article
08/23/2024

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta 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.

Create a new approvalItem 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)	ApprovalSolution.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /solutions/approval/approvalItems

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 approvalItem object.

You can specify the following properties when creating an approvalItem.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	The displayName of the approval request. Required.
description	String	The description of the approval request. Optional.
allowEmailNotification	Boolean	Indicates whether email notification is enabled. Optional.
approvalType	approvalItemType	The workflow type of the approval item. The possible values are: `basic`, `basicAwaitAll`, `custom`, `customAwaitAll`. Required.
responsePrompts	String collection	Approval response prompts. Only provide a value for this property when creating a custom approval item. For custom approval items, supply two response prompt strings. The default response prompts are "Approve" and "Reject". Optional.
approvers	approvalIdentitySet collection	The identity of the principals to whom the approval item was initially assigned. Required.
owner	approvalIdentitySet	The identity set of the principal who owns the approval item. Only provide a value for this property when creating an approval item on behalf of the principal. If the owner field isn't provided, the user information from the user context is used. Optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code with the operation location in the header.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/solutions/approval/approvalItems
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "approvers":[
    {
      "user": {
        "id": "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b",
        "displayName": "Jana Pihlak"
      }
    },
    {
      "group": {
        "id": "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5"
      }
    }
  ],
  "displayName":"Title of approval",
  "description":"Details of approval",
  "approvalType": "basic",
  "allowEmailNotification": true
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new ApprovalItem
{
	Approvers = new List<ApprovalIdentitySet>
	{
		new ApprovalIdentitySet
		{
			User = new Identity
			{
				Id = "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b",
				DisplayName = "Jana Pihlak",
			},
		},
		new ApprovalIdentitySet
		{
			Group = new Identity
			{
				Id = "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5",
			},
		},
	},
	DisplayName = "Title of approval",
	Description = "Details of approval",
	ApprovalType = ApprovalItemType.Basic,
	AllowEmailNotification = true,
};

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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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



mgc-beta solutions approval approval-items create --body '{\
  "approvers":[\
    {\
      "user": {\
        "id": "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b",\
        "displayName": "Jana Pihlak"\
      }\
    },\
    {\
      "group": {\
        "id": "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5"\
      }\
    }\
  ],\
  "displayName":"Title of approval",\
  "description":"Details of approval",\
  "approvalType": "basic",\
  "allowEmailNotification": true\
}\
'

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewApprovalItem()


approvalIdentitySet := graphmodels.NewApprovalIdentitySet()
user := graphmodels.NewIdentity()
id := "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b"
user.SetId(&id) 
displayName := "Jana Pihlak"
user.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
approvalIdentitySet.SetUser(user)
approvalIdentitySet1 := graphmodels.NewApprovalIdentitySet()
group := graphmodels.NewIdentity()
id := "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5"
group.SetId(&id) 
approvalIdentitySet1.SetGroup(group)

approvers := []graphmodels.ApprovalIdentitySetable {
	approvalIdentitySet,
	approvalIdentitySet1,
}
requestBody.SetApprovers(approvers)
displayName := "Title of approval"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Details of approval"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
approvalType := graphmodels.BASIC_APPROVALITEMTYPE 
requestBody.SetApprovalType(&approvalType) 
allowEmailNotification := true
requestBody.SetAllowEmailNotification(&allowEmailNotification) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
approvalItems, err := graphClient.Solutions().Approval().ApprovalItems().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ApprovalItem approvalItem = new ApprovalItem();
LinkedList<ApprovalIdentitySet> approvers = new LinkedList<ApprovalIdentitySet>();
ApprovalIdentitySet approvalIdentitySet = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
Identity user = new Identity();
user.setId("39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b");
user.setDisplayName("Jana Pihlak");
approvalIdentitySet.setUser(user);
approvers.add(approvalIdentitySet);
ApprovalIdentitySet approvalIdentitySet1 = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
Identity group = new Identity();
group.setId("f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5");
approvalIdentitySet1.setGroup(group);
approvers.add(approvalIdentitySet1);
approvalItem.setApprovers(approvers);
approvalItem.setDisplayName("Title of approval");
approvalItem.setDescription("Details of approval");
approvalItem.setApprovalType(ApprovalItemType.Basic);
approvalItem.setAllowEmailNotification(true);
ApprovalItem result = graphClient.solutions().approval().approvalItems().post(approvalItem);

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const approvalItem = {
  approvers: [
    {
      user: {
        id: '39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b',
        displayName: 'Jana Pihlak'
      }
    },
    {
      group: {
        id: 'f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5'
      }
    }
  ],
  displayName: 'Title of approval',
  description: 'Details of approval',
  approvalType: 'basic',
  allowEmailNotification: true
};

await client.api('/solutions/approval/approvalItems')
	.version('beta')
	.post(approvalItem);

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ApprovalItem;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ApprovalIdentitySet;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Identity;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ApprovalItemType;


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

$requestBody = new ApprovalItem();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1 = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1User = new Identity();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1User->setId('39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b');
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1User->setDisplayName('Jana Pihlak');
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1->setUser($approversApprovalIdentitySet1User);
$approversArray []= $approversApprovalIdentitySet1;
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2 = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2Group = new Identity();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2Group->setId('f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5');
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2->setGroup($approversApprovalIdentitySet2Group);
$approversArray []= $approversApprovalIdentitySet2;
$requestBody->setApprovers($approversArray);

$requestBody->setDisplayName('Title of approval');
$requestBody->setDescription('Details of approval');
$requestBody->setApprovalType(new ApprovalItemType('basic'));
$requestBody->setAllowEmailNotification(true);

$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->approval()->approvalItems()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.approval_item import ApprovalItem
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.approval_identity_set import ApprovalIdentitySet
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.identity import Identity
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.approval_item_type import ApprovalItemType
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ApprovalItem(
	approvers = [
		ApprovalIdentitySet(
			user = Identity(
				id = "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b",
				display_name = "Jana Pihlak",
			),
		),
		ApprovalIdentitySet(
			group = Identity(
				id = "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5",
			),
		),
	],
	display_name = "Title of approval",
	description = "Details of approval",
	approval_type = ApprovalItemType.Basic,
	allow_email_notification = True,
)

result = await graph_client.solutions.approval.approval_items.post(request_body)

Important

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/1.1 202 Accepted
Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/solutions/approval/operations/1a837203-b794-4cea-8def-47a7d1f89335

Share via

Create approvalItem

Permissions

HTTP request

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Request

Response

Feedback

Additional resources