Create personInterest

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06/10/2024

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 [personInterest](../resources/personinterest.md] in a user's profile.

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

HTTP request

POST /me/profile/interests
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/interests

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 personInterest object.

The following table shows the properties that are possible to set within a new personInterest object in a user's profile.

Property	Type	Description
allowedAudiences	String	The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: `me`, `family`, `contacts`, `groupMembers`, `organization`, `federatedOrganizations`, `everyone`, `unknownFutureValue`.
categories	String collection	Contains categories a user has associated with the interest (for example, personal, recipies).
collaborationTags	String collection	Contains experience scenario tags a user has associated with the interest. Allowed values in the collection are: `askMeAbout`, `ableToMentor`, `wantsToLearn`, `wantsToImprove`.
description	String	Contains a description of the interest.
displayName	String	Contains a friendly name for the interest.
inference	inferenceData	Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
source	personDataSource	Where the values originated if synced from another service. Inherited from itemFacet.
webUrl	String	Contains a link to a web page or resource about the interest.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/interests
Content-type: application/json

{
  "categories": [
    "Sports"
  ],
  "description": "World's greatest football club",
  "displayName": "Chelsea FC",
  "webUrl": "https://www.chelseafc.com"
}


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

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

var requestBody = new PersonInterest
{
	Categories = new List<string>
	{
		"Sports",
	},
	Description = "World's greatest football club",
	DisplayName = "Chelsea FC",
	WebUrl = "https://www.chelseafc.com",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Profile.Interests.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 users profile interests create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "categories": [\
    "Sports"\
  ],\
  "description": "World's greatest football club",\
  "displayName": "Chelsea FC",\
  "webUrl": "https://www.chelseafc.com"\
}\
'

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.NewPersonInterest()
categories := []string {
	"Sports",
}
requestBody.SetCategories(categories)
description := "World's greatest football club"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
displayName := "Chelsea FC"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
webUrl := "https://www.chelseafc.com"
requestBody.SetWebUrl(&webUrl) 

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

PersonInterest personInterest = new PersonInterest();
LinkedList<String> categories = new LinkedList<String>();
categories.add("Sports");
personInterest.setCategories(categories);
personInterest.setDescription("World's greatest football club");
personInterest.setDisplayName("Chelsea FC");
personInterest.setWebUrl("https://www.chelseafc.com");
PersonInterest result = graphClient.me().profile().interests().post(personInterest);

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 personInterest = {
  categories: [
    'Sports'
  ],
  description: 'World\'s greatest football club',
  displayName: 'Chelsea FC',
  webUrl: 'https://www.chelseafc.com'
};

await client.api('/me/profile/interests')
	.version('beta')
	.post(personInterest);

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\PersonInterest;


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

$requestBody = new PersonInterest();
$requestBody->setCategories(['Sports', 	]);
$requestBody->setDescription('World\'s greatest football club');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Chelsea FC');
$requestBody->setWebUrl('https://www.chelseafc.com');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->profile()->interests()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.People

$params = @{
	categories = @(
	"Sports"
)
description = "World's greatest football club"
displayName = "Chelsea FC"
webUrl = "https://www.chelseafc.com"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserProfileInterest -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

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.person_interest import PersonInterest
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = PersonInterest(
	categories = [
		"Sports",
	],
	description = "World's greatest football club",
	display_name = "Chelsea FC",
	web_url = "https://www.chelseafc.com",
)

result = await graph_client.me.profile.interests.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/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "inference": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "categories": [
    "Sports"
  ],
  "description": "World's greatest football club",
  "displayName": "Chelsea FC",
  "webUrl": "https://www.chelseafc.com",
  "collaborationTags": null
}

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