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In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the approvalItem object.
You can specify the following properties when creating an approvalItem.
Property
Type
Description
displayName
String
The displayName of the approval request. Required.
description
String
The description of the approval request. Optional.
allowEmailNotification
Boolean
Indicates whether email notification is enabled. Optional.
approvalType
approvalItemType
The workflow type of the approval item. The possible values are: basic, basicAwaitAll, custom, customAwaitAll. Required.
responsePrompts
String collection
Approval response prompts. Only provide a value for this property when creating a custom approval item. For custom approval items, supply two response prompt strings. The default response prompts are "Approve" and "Reject". Optional.
The identity set of the principal who owns the approval item. Only provide a value for this property when creating an approval item on behalf of the principal. If the owner field isn't provided, the user information from the user context is used. Optional.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code with the operation location in the header.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;
var requestBody = new ApprovalItem
{
Approvers = new List<ApprovalIdentitySet>
{
new ApprovalIdentitySet
{
User = new Identity
{
Id = "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b",
DisplayName = "Jana Pihlak",
},
},
new ApprovalIdentitySet
{
Group = new Identity
{
Id = "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5",
},
},
},
DisplayName = "Title of approval",
Description = "Details of approval",
ApprovalType = ApprovalItemType.Basic,
AllowEmailNotification = true,
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Solutions.Approval.ApprovalItems.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.
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.
// 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.NewApprovalItem()
approvalIdentitySet := graphmodels.NewApprovalIdentitySet()
user := graphmodels.NewIdentity()
id := "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b"
user.SetId(&id)
displayName := "Jana Pihlak"
user.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
approvalIdentitySet.SetUser(user)
approvalIdentitySet1 := graphmodels.NewApprovalIdentitySet()
group := graphmodels.NewIdentity()
id := "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5"
group.SetId(&id)
approvalIdentitySet1.SetGroup(group)
approvers := []graphmodels.ApprovalIdentitySetable {
approvalIdentitySet,
approvalIdentitySet1,
}
requestBody.SetApprovers(approvers)
displayName := "Title of approval"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
description := "Details of approval"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description)
approvalType := graphmodels.BASIC_APPROVALITEMTYPE
requestBody.SetApprovalType(&approvalType)
allowEmailNotification := true
requestBody.SetAllowEmailNotification(&allowEmailNotification)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
approvalItems, err := graphClient.Solutions().Approval().ApprovalItems().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
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.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
ApprovalItem approvalItem = new ApprovalItem();
LinkedList<ApprovalIdentitySet> approvers = new LinkedList<ApprovalIdentitySet>();
ApprovalIdentitySet approvalIdentitySet = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
Identity user = new Identity();
user.setId("39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b");
user.setDisplayName("Jana Pihlak");
approvalIdentitySet.setUser(user);
approvers.add(approvalIdentitySet);
ApprovalIdentitySet approvalIdentitySet1 = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
Identity group = new Identity();
group.setId("f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5");
approvalIdentitySet1.setGroup(group);
approvers.add(approvalIdentitySet1);
approvalItem.setApprovers(approvers);
approvalItem.setDisplayName("Title of approval");
approvalItem.setDescription("Details of approval");
approvalItem.setApprovalType(ApprovalItemType.Basic);
approvalItem.setAllowEmailNotification(true);
ApprovalItem result = graphClient.solutions().approval().approvalItems().post(approvalItem);
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.
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.
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ApprovalItem;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ApprovalIdentitySet;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Identity;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ApprovalItemType;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ApprovalItem();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1 = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1User = new Identity();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1User->setId('39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b');
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1User->setDisplayName('Jana Pihlak');
$approversApprovalIdentitySet1->setUser($approversApprovalIdentitySet1User);
$approversArray []= $approversApprovalIdentitySet1;
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2 = new ApprovalIdentitySet();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2Group = new Identity();
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2Group->setId('f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5');
$approversApprovalIdentitySet2->setGroup($approversApprovalIdentitySet2Group);
$approversArray []= $approversApprovalIdentitySet2;
$requestBody->setApprovers($approversArray);
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Title of approval');
$requestBody->setDescription('Details of approval');
$requestBody->setApprovalType(new ApprovalItemType('basic'));
$requestBody->setAllowEmailNotification(true);
$result = $graphServiceClient->solutions()->approval()->approvalItems()->post($requestBody)->wait();
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.
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.approval_item import ApprovalItem
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.approval_identity_set import ApprovalIdentitySet
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.identity import Identity
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.approval_item_type import ApprovalItemType
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ApprovalItem(
approvers = [
ApprovalIdentitySet(
user = Identity(
id = "39d1a7fb-5f54-4c89-b513-241683718c9b",
display_name = "Jana Pihlak",
),
),
ApprovalIdentitySet(
group = Identity(
id = "f2926053-5479-4bce-ad4c-8394ce51d6c5",
),
),
],
display_name = "Title of approval",
description = "Details of approval",
approval_type = ApprovalItemType.Basic,
allow_email_notification = True,
)
result = await graph_client.solutions.approval.approval_items.post(request_body)
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.