Create a columnDefinition in a list

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a column for a list with a request that specifies a columnDefinition.

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)	Sites.Manage.All	Sites.FullControl.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Sites.Manage.All	Sites.FullControl.All

HTTP request

POST /sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/columns

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 columnDefinition resource to add.

Response

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

Example

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/columns
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "description": "test",
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,
  "hidden": false,
  "indexed": false,
  "name": "Title",
  "text": {
    "allowMultipleLines": false,
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,
    "linesForEditing": 0,
    "maxLength": 255
  }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ColumnDefinition
{
	Description = "test",
	EnforceUniqueValues = false,
	Hidden = false,
	Indexed = false,
	Name = "Title",
	Text = new TextColumn
	{
		AllowMultipleLines = false,
		AppendChangesToExistingText = false,
		LinesForEditing = 0,
		MaxLength = 255,
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Sites["{site-id}"].Lists["{list-id}"].Columns.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc sites lists columns create --site-id {site-id} --list-id {list-id} --body '{\
  "description": "test",\
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,\
  "hidden": false,\
  "indexed": false,\
  "name": "Title",\
  "text": {\
    "allowMultipleLines": false,\
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,\
    "linesForEditing": 0,\
    "maxLength": 255\
  }\
}\
'

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.NewColumnDefinition()
description := "test"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
enforceUniqueValues := false
requestBody.SetEnforceUniqueValues(&enforceUniqueValues) 
hidden := false
requestBody.SetHidden(&hidden) 
indexed := false
requestBody.SetIndexed(&indexed) 
name := "Title"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
text := graphmodels.NewTextColumn()
allowMultipleLines := false
text.SetAllowMultipleLines(&allowMultipleLines) 
appendChangesToExistingText := false
text.SetAppendChangesToExistingText(&appendChangesToExistingText) 
linesForEditing := int32(0)
text.SetLinesForEditing(&linesForEditing) 
maxLength := int32(255)
text.SetMaxLength(&maxLength) 
requestBody.SetText(text)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
columns, err := graphClient.Sites().BySiteId("site-id").Lists().ByListId("list-id").Columns().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);

ColumnDefinition columnDefinition = new ColumnDefinition();
columnDefinition.setDescription("test");
columnDefinition.setEnforceUniqueValues(false);
columnDefinition.setHidden(false);
columnDefinition.setIndexed(false);
columnDefinition.setName("Title");
TextColumn text = new TextColumn();
text.setAllowMultipleLines(false);
text.setAppendChangesToExistingText(false);
text.setLinesForEditing(0);
text.setMaxLength(255);
columnDefinition.setText(text);
ColumnDefinition result = graphClient.sites().bySiteId("{site-id}").lists().byListId("{list-id}").columns().post(columnDefinition);

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 columnDefinition = {
  description: 'test',
  enforceUniqueValues: false,
  hidden: false,
  indexed: false,
  name: 'Title',
  text: {
    allowMultipleLines: false,
    appendChangesToExistingText: false,
    linesForEditing: 0,
    maxLength: 255
  }
};

await client.api('/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/columns')
	.post(columnDefinition);

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\ColumnDefinition;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\TextColumn;


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

$requestBody = new ColumnDefinition();
$requestBody->setDescription('test');
$requestBody->setEnforceUniqueValues(false);
$requestBody->setHidden(false);
$requestBody->setIndexed(false);
$requestBody->setName('Title');
$text = new TextColumn();
$text->setAllowMultipleLines(false);
$text->setAppendChangesToExistingText(false);
$text->setLinesForEditing(0);
$text->setMaxLength(255);
$requestBody->setText($text);

$result = $graphServiceClient->sites()->bySiteId('site-id')->lists()->byListId('list-id')->columns()->post($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.Sites

$params = @{
	description = "test"
	enforceUniqueValues = $false
	hidden = $false
	indexed = $false
	name = "Title"
	text = @{
		allowMultipleLines = $false
		appendChangesToExistingText = $false
		linesForEditing = 0
		maxLength = 255
	}
}

New-MgSiteListColumn -SiteId $siteId -ListId $listId -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.column_definition import ColumnDefinition
from msgraph.generated.models.text_column import TextColumn
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ColumnDefinition(
	description = "test",
	enforce_unique_values = False,
	hidden = False,
	indexed = False,
	name = "Title",
	text = TextColumn(
		allow_multiple_lines = False,
		append_changes_to_existing_text = False,
		lines_for_editing = 0,
		max_length = 255,
	),
)

result = await graph_client.sites.by_site_id('site-id').lists.by_list_id('list-id').columns.post(request_body)

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

Response

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

{
  "description": "test",
  "displayName": "Title",
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,
  "hidden": false,
  "id": "99ddcf45-e2f7-4f17-82b0-6fba34445103",
  "indexed": false,
  "name": "Title",
  "text": {
    "allowMultipleLines": false,
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,
    "linesForEditing": 0,
    "maxLength": 255
  }
}