Get task

Namespace: microsoft.graph.identityGovernance

Get a specific task from a workflow or workflowVersion.

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)	LifecycleWorkflows.Read.Workflows	LifecycleWorkflows.Read.All, LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.Workflows
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	LifecycleWorkflows.Read.Workflows	LifecycleWorkflows.Read.All, LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.Workflows

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. Global Reader and Lifecycle Workflows Administrator are the least privileged roles supported for this operation.

HTTP request

Fetch tasks for a lifecycle workflow.

GET /identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/{workflowId}/tasks/{taskId}

Fetch tasks for a lifecycle workflow version.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/156ce798-1eb6-4e0a-8515-e79f54d04390/versions/2/tasks/4d9d41d7-a8e1-4f2f-8c8c-a883bc02e6ee

Optional query parameters

This method does not support OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

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

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a microsoft.graph.identityGovernance.task object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Get a task from a workflow

Request

The following example shows a request to get a task from a workflow.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/156ce798-1eb6-4e0a-8515-e79f54d04390/tasks/fafa2189-cd62-4643-a825-06cab8817086

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].Tasks["{task-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc identity-governance lifecycle-workflows workflows tasks get --workflow-id {workflow-id} --task-id {task-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
tasks, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").Tasks().ByTaskId("task-id").Get(context.Background(), 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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").tasks().byTaskId("{task-id}").get();

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);

let task = await client.api('/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/156ce798-1eb6-4e0a-8515-e79f54d04390/tasks/fafa2189-cd62-4643-a825-06cab8817086')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->identityGovernance()->lifecycleWorkflows()->workflows()->byWorkflowId('workflow-id')->tasks()->byTaskId('task-id')->get()->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.Governance

Get-MgIdentityGovernanceLifecycleWorkflowTask -WorkflowId $workflowId -TaskId $taskId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').tasks.by_task_id('task-id').get()

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

Response

The following is an example of the response of a request to get a task from a workflow.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows('156ce798-1eb6-4e0a-8515-e79f54d04390')/tasks/$entity",
    "category": "joiner,leaver",
    "continueOnError": false,
    "description": "Enable user account in the directory",
    "displayName": "Enable User Account",
    "executionSequence": 1,
    "id": "fafa2189-cd62-4643-a825-06cab8817086",
    "isEnabled": true,
    "taskDefinitionId": "6fc52c9d-398b-4305-9763-15f42c1676fc",
    "arguments": []
}

Example 2: Get a task from a workflow version

Request

The following example shows a request to get a task from a workflow version.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/156ce798-1eb6-4e0a-8515-e79f54d04390/versions/2/tasks/4d9d41d7-a8e1-4f2f-8c8c-a883bc02e6ee

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].Versions[2].Tasks["{task-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc identity-governance lifecycle-workflows workflows versions tasks get --workflow-id {workflow-id} --workflow-version-version-number {workflowVersion-versionNumber} --task-id {task-id}

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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
tasks, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").Versions().ByWorkflowVersionVersionNumber("workflowVersion-versionNumber").Tasks().ByTaskId("task-id").Get(context.Background(), 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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").versions().byWorkflowVersionVersionNumber(2).tasks().byTaskId("{task-id}").get();

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);

let task = await client.api('/identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/156ce798-1eb6-4e0a-8515-e79f54d04390/versions/2/tasks/4d9d41d7-a8e1-4f2f-8c8c-a883bc02e6ee')
	.get();

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;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->identityGovernance()->lifecycleWorkflows()->workflows()->byWorkflowId('workflow-id')->versions()->byWorkflowVersionVersionNumber('workflowVersion-versionNumber')->tasks()->byTaskId('task-id')->get()->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.Governance

Get-MgIdentityGovernanceLifecycleWorkflowVersionTask -WorkflowId $workflowId -WorkflowVersionVersionNumber $workflowVersionVersionNumber -TaskId $taskId

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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').versions.by_workflow_version_version_number('workflowVersion-versionNumber').tasks.by_task_id('task-id').get()

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

Response

The following is an example of the response of a request to get a task from a workflow version.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows('14879e66-9ea9-48d0-804d-8fea672d0341')/versions(1)/tasks/$entity",
  "category": "joiner,leaver",
  "continueOnError": false,
  "description": "Add user to selected groups",
  "displayName": "Add User To Groups",
  "executionSequence": 2,
  "id": "eedd8043-90a1-4e3c-9112-b2a8917ea3ae",
  "isEnabled": true,
  "taskDefinitionId": "22085229-5809-45e8-97fd-270d28d66910",
  "arguments": [
    {
      "name": "groupID",
      "value": "e5659cb0-bcbb-4a9f-9092-90f72bd19028"
    }
  ]
}