Create shift

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new shift instance in a schedule.

The duration of a shift cannot be less than 1 minute or longer than 24 hours.

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

HTTP request

POST /teams/{teamId}/schedule/shifts

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json. Required.
MS-APP-ACTS-AS A user ID (GUID). Required only if the authorization token is an application token; otherwise, optional.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the modified shift object.

The following table lists the properties that you can use when you create a shift object.

Property Type Description
draftShift shiftItem Draft changes in the shift. Draft changes are only visible to managers. The changes are visible to employees when they're shared, which copies the changes from the draftShift to the sharedShift property. Eiher draShift or sharedShift should be null.
isStagedForDeletion Boolean The shift is marked for deletion, a process that is finalized when the schedule is shared. Optional.
schedulingGroupId String ID of the scheduling group the shift is part of. Required.
sharedShift shiftItem The shared version of this shift that is viewable by both employees and managers. Updates to the sharedShift property send notifications to users in the Teams client. Eiher draShift or sharedShift should be null.
userId String ID of the user assigned to the shift. Required.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/{teamId}/schedule/shifts
Content-type: application/json

{
  "userId": "5ca83ce7-291d-43b7-bf53-af79eef4bc1d",
  "draftShift": {
    "displayName": null,
    "startDateTime": "2024-10-08T15:00:00Z",
    "endDateTime": "2024-10-09T00:00:00Z",
    "theme": "blue",
    "notes": null,
    "activities": []
  },
  "sharedShift": null,
  "isStagedForDeletion": false
}

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

{
  "id": "SHFT_0f004eda-32a6-4f0c-a076-18f76d997a55",
  "createdDateTime": "2024-11-08T23:49:13.877Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2024-11-08T23:49:13.877Z",
  "schedulingGroupId": "TAG_4ab7d329-1f7e-4eaf-ba93-63f1ff3f3c4a",
  "userId": "5ca83ce7-291d-43b7-bf53-af79eef4bc1d",
  "sharedShift": null,
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "id": "366c0b19-49b1-41b5-a03f-9f3887bd0ed8",
      "displayName": "John Doe",
      "userIdentityType": "aadUser",
      "tenantId": null
    }
  },
  "draftShift": {
    "displayName": null,
    "startDateTime": "2024-10-08T15:00:00Z",
    "endDateTime": "2024-10-09T00:00:00Z",
    "theme": "blue",
    "notes": null,
    "activities": []
  },
  "isStagedForDeletion": false
}