Items - Create Item

Service:

Core

API Version:

v1

Creates an item in the specified workspace.

This API is supported for a number of item types, find the supported item types in Item management overview. You can use Get item definition API to get an item definition.

This API supports long running operations (LRO).

Permissions

The caller must have contributor or higher workspace role.

Required Delegated Scopes

For item APIs use these scope types:

• Generic scope: Item.ReadWrite.All
• Specific scope: itemType.ReadWrite.All (for example: Notebook.ReadWrite.All)

for more information about scopes, see scopes article.

Limitations

• To create a non-PowerBI Fabric item the workspace must be on a supported Fabric capacity. For more information see Microsoft Fabric license types.
• To create a PowerBI item, the user must have the appropriate license. For more information see Microsoft Fabric license types.
• When creating an item, use either creationPayload or definition, but do not use both at the same time.

Microsoft Entra supported identities

This API supports the Microsoft identities listed in this section.

Identity	Support
User	Yes
Service principal	When the item type in the call is supported. Check the corresponding API for the item type you're calling, to see if your call is supported. For example, semantic models are supported.
Managed identities	When the item type in the call is supported. Check the corresponding API for the item type you're calling, to see if your call is supported. For example, semantic models are supported.

Interface

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{workspaceId}/items

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
workspaceId	path	True	string uuid	The workspace ID.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
displayName	True	string	The item display name. The display name must follow naming rules according to item type.
type	True	ItemType	The item type.
creationPayload		object	A set of properties used to create the item. Use creationPayload or definition. You can't use both at the same time.
definition		ItemDefinition	The item definition. Use definition or creationPayload. You can't use both at the same time.
description		string	The item description. Maximum length is 256 characters.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
201 Created	Item	Successfully created
202 Accepted		Request accepted, item provisioning in progress Headers Location: string x-ms-operation-id: string Retry-After: integer
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Common error codes: InvalidItemType - Item type is invalid. ItemDisplayNameAlreadyInUse - Item display name is already used. CorruptedPayload - The provided payload is corrupted

Examples

Create an item example

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/cfafbeb1-8037-4d0c-896e-a46fb27ff229/items

{
  "displayName": "Item 1",
  "type": "Lakehouse"
}

Sample response

Status code:

201

{
  "displayName": "Item 1",
  "description": "",
  "type": "Lakehouse",
  "workspaceId": "cfafbeb1-8037-4d0c-896e-a46fb27ff229",
  "id": "5b218778-e7a5-4d73-8187-f10824047715"
}

Status code:

202

Location: https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/operations/0acd697c-1550-43cd-b998-91bfbfbd47c6
x-ms-operation-id: 0acd697c-1550-43cd-b998-91bfbfbd47c6
Retry-After: 30

Definitions

Name	Description
CreateItemRequest	Create item request payload.
ErrorRelatedResource	The error related resource details object.
ErrorResponse	The error response.
ErrorResponseDetails	The error response details.
Item	An item object.
ItemDefinition	An item definition object.
ItemDefinitionPart	An item definition part object.
ItemType	The type of the item. Additional item types may be added over time.
PayloadType	The type of the definition part payload. Additional payload types may be added over time.

CreateItemRequest

Create item request payload.

Name	Type	Description
creationPayload	object	A set of properties used to create the item. Use creationPayload or definition. You can't use both at the same time.
definition	ItemDefinition	The item definition. Use definition or creationPayload. You can't use both at the same time.
description	string	The item description. Maximum length is 256 characters.
displayName	string	The item display name. The display name must follow naming rules according to item type.
type	ItemType	The item type.

ErrorRelatedResource

The error related resource details object.

Name	Type	Description
resourceId	string	The resource ID that's involved in the error.
resourceType	string	The type of the resource that's involved in the error.

ErrorResponse

The error response.

Name	Type	Description
errorCode	string	A specific identifier that provides information about an error condition, allowing for standardized communication between our service and its users.
message	string	A human readable representation of the error.
moreDetails	ErrorResponseDetails[]	List of additional error details.
relatedResource	ErrorRelatedResource	The error related resource details.
requestId	string	ID of the request associated with the error.

ErrorResponseDetails

The error response details.

Name	Type	Description
errorCode	string	A specific identifier that provides information about an error condition, allowing for standardized communication between our service and its users.
message	string	A human readable representation of the error.
relatedResource	ErrorRelatedResource	The error related resource details.

Item

An item object.

Name	Type	Description
description	string	The item description.
displayName	string	The item display name.
id	string	The item ID.
type	ItemType	The item type.
workspaceId	string	The workspace ID.

ItemDefinition

An item definition object.

Name	Type	Description
format	string	The format of the item definition.
parts	ItemDefinitionPart[]	A list of definition parts.

ItemDefinitionPart

An item definition part object.

Name	Type	Description
path	string	The item part path.
payload	string	The item part payload.
payloadType	PayloadType	The payload type.

ItemType

The type of the item. Additional item types may be added over time.

Name	Type	Description
Dashboard	string	PowerBI dashboard.
DataPipeline	string	A data pipeline.
Datamart	string	PowerBI datamart.
Environment	string	An environment.
Eventhouse	string	An eventhouse.
Eventstream	string	An eventstream.
KQLDashboard	string	A KQL dashboard.
KQLDatabase	string	A KQL database.
KQLQueryset	string	A KQL queryset.
Lakehouse	string	A lakehouse.
MLExperiment	string	A machine learning experiment.
MLModel	string	A machine learning model.
MirroredDatabase	string	A mirrored database.
MirroredWarehouse	string	A mirrored warehouse.
Notebook	string	A notebook.
PaginatedReport	string	PowerBI paginated report.
Reflex	string	A Reflex.
Report	string	PowerBI report.
SQLEndpoint	string	An SQL endpoint.
SemanticModel	string	PowerBI semantic model.
SparkJobDefinition	string	A spark job definition.
Warehouse	string	A warehouse.

PayloadType

The type of the definition part payload. Additional payload types may be added over time.

Name	Type	Description
InlineBase64	string	Inline Base 64.