Create attributeSet

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new attributeSet 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)	CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	CustomSecAttributeDefinition.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Attribute Definition Administrator is the only privileged role supported for this operation.

By default, Global Administrator and other administrator roles don't have permissions to read, define, or assign custom security attributes.

HTTP request

POST /directory/attributeSets

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 attributeSet object.

The following table shows the properties that you can configure when you create an attributeSet.

Property	Type	Description
description	String	Description of the attribute set. Can be up to 128 characters long and include Unicode characters. Can be changed later. Optional.
id	String	Identifier for the attribute set that is unique within a tenant. Can be up to 32 characters long and include Unicode characters. Cannot contain spaces or special characters. Cannot be changed later. Case sensitive. Required.
maxAttributesPerSet	Int32	Maximum number of custom security attributes that can be defined in this attribute set. Default value is null. If not specified, the administrator can add up to the maximum of 500 active attributes per tenant. Can be changed later. Optional.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example adds a new attribute set named Engineering.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/directory/attributeSets
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "id":"Engineering",
    "description":"Attributes for engineering team",
    "maxAttributesPerSet":25
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AttributeSet
{
	Id = "Engineering",
	Description = "Attributes for engineering team",
	MaxAttributesPerSet = 25,
};

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

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

CLI

mgc directory attribute-sets create --body '{\
    "id":"Engineering",\
    "description":"Attributes for engineering team",\
    "maxAttributesPerSet":25\
}\
'

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.NewAttributeSet()
id := "Engineering"
requestBody.SetId(&id) 
description := "Attributes for engineering team"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
maxAttributesPerSet := int32(25)
requestBody.SetMaxAttributesPerSet(&maxAttributesPerSet) 

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

AttributeSet attributeSet = new AttributeSet();
attributeSet.setId("Engineering");
attributeSet.setDescription("Attributes for engineering team");
attributeSet.setMaxAttributesPerSet(25);
AttributeSet result = graphClient.directory().attributeSets().post(attributeSet);

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 attributeSet = {
    id: 'Engineering',
    description: 'Attributes for engineering team',
    maxAttributesPerSet: 25
};

await client.api('/directory/attributeSets')
	.post(attributeSet);

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\AttributeSet;


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

$requestBody = new AttributeSet();
$requestBody->setId('Engineering');
$requestBody->setDescription('Attributes for engineering team');
$requestBody->setMaxAttributesPerSet(25);

$result = $graphServiceClient->directory()->attributeSets()->post($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.Identity.DirectoryManagement

$params = @{
	id = "Engineering"
	description = "Attributes for engineering team"
	maxAttributesPerSet = 25
}

New-MgDirectoryAttributeSet -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.attribute_set import AttributeSet
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AttributeSet(
	id = "Engineering",
	description = "Attributes for engineering team",
	max_attributes_per_set = 25,
)

result = await graph_client.directory.attribute_sets.post(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.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#directory/attributeSets/$entity",
    "description": "Attributes for engineering team",
    "id": "Engineering",
    "maxAttributesPerSet": 25
}