Create ediscoveryCase

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

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 ediscoveryCase object.

Note

This API only creates an eDiscovery (Premium) case using the new case format. To learn more about the new case format in eDiscovery, see Use the new case format in eDiscovery (Premium).

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)	eDiscovery.Read.All	eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	eDiscovery.Read.All	eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases

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 ediscoveryCase object.

You can specify the following properties when you create an ediscoveryCase.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	The name of the eDiscovery case. Required.
description	String	The case description. Optional.
externalId	String	The external case number for customer reference. Optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an microsoft.graph.security.ediscoveryCase object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/security/cases/ediscoveryCases
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
    "description": "Project Bazooka",
    "externalId": "324516"
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new EdiscoveryCase
{
	DisplayName = "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
	Description = "Project Bazooka",
	ExternalId = "324516",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Cases.EdiscoveryCases.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.

CLI

mgc-beta security cases ediscovery-cases create --body '{\
    "displayName": "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",\
    "description": "Project Bazooka",\
    "externalId": "324516"\
}\
'

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.

Go

// 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"
	  graphmodelssecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models/security"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodelssecurity.NewEdiscoveryCase()
displayName := "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Project Bazooka"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
externalId := "324516"
requestBody.SetExternalId(&externalId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
ediscoveryCases, err := graphClient.Security().Cases().EdiscoveryCases().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.

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.beta.models.security.EdiscoveryCase ediscoveryCase = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.security.EdiscoveryCase();
ediscoveryCase.setDisplayName("CONTOSO LITIGATION-005");
ediscoveryCase.setDescription("Project Bazooka");
ediscoveryCase.setExternalId("324516");
com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCase result = graphClient.security().cases().ediscoveryCases().post(ediscoveryCase);

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.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const ediscoveryCase = {
    displayName: 'CONTOSO LITIGATION-005',
    description: 'Project Bazooka',
    externalId: '324516'
};

await client.api('/security/cases/ediscoveryCases')
	.version('beta')
	.post(ediscoveryCase);

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.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Security\EdiscoveryCase;


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

$requestBody = new EdiscoveryCase();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('CONTOSO LITIGATION-005');
$requestBody->setDescription('Project Bazooka');
$requestBody->setExternalId('324516');

$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->cases()->ediscoveryCases()->post($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.

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.Beta.Security

$params = @{
	displayName = "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005"
	description = "Project Bazooka"
	externalId = "324516"
}

New-MgBetaSecurityCaseEdiscoveryCase -BodyParameter $params

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.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.security.ediscovery_case import EdiscoveryCase
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = EdiscoveryCase(
	display_name = "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
	description = "Project Bazooka",
	external_id = "324516",
)

result = await graph_client.security.cases.ediscovery_cases.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.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#security/cases/ediscoveryCases/$entity",
    "description": "Project Bazooka",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2022-05-22T18:36:48.0834353Z",
    "status": "active",
    "closedDateTime": "2022-05-22T18:36:48.083436Z",
    "externalId": "324516",
    "id": "22aa2acd-7554-4330-9ba9-ce20014aaae4",
    "displayName": "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
    "createdDateTime": "2022-05-22T18:36:48.0834351Z",
    "lastModifiedBy": null,
    "closedBy": null
}