Create identityUserFlowAttribute

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new custom identityUserFlowAttribute object.

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

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be an owner or member of the group or be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. External ID User Flow Attribute Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

POST /identity/userFlowAttributes

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, provide a JSON representation of identityUserFlowAttribute.

Property	Type	Description
id	String	The identifier of the user flow attribute. This is a read-only attribute that is automatically created.
displayName	String	The display name of the user flow attribute.
description	String	The description of the user flow attribute. It's shown to the user at the time of sign-up.
userFlowAttributeType	String	The type of the user flow attribute. This is a read-only attribute that is automatically set. Depending on the type of attribute, the values for this property are builtIn or custom.
dataType	String	The data type of the user flow attribute. This can't be modified once the custom user flow attribute is created. The supported values for dataType are: string boolean int64

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and identityUserFlowAttribute object in the response body. If unsuccessful, a 4xx error is returned with specific details.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/userFlowAttributes
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Hobby",
  "description": "Your hobby",
  "dataType": "string"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new IdentityUserFlowAttribute
{
	DisplayName = "Hobby",
	Description = "Your hobby",
	DataType = IdentityUserFlowAttributeDataType.String,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Identity.UserFlowAttributes.PostAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc identity user-flow-attributes create --body '{\
  "displayName": "Hobby",\
  "description": "Your hobby",\
  "dataType": "string"\
}\
'

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.NewIdentityUserFlowAttribute()
displayName := "Hobby"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Your hobby"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
dataType := graphmodels.STRING_IDENTITYUSERFLOWATTRIBUTEDATATYPE 
requestBody.SetDataType(&dataType) 

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

IdentityUserFlowAttribute identityUserFlowAttribute = new IdentityUserFlowAttribute();
identityUserFlowAttribute.setDisplayName("Hobby");
identityUserFlowAttribute.setDescription("Your hobby");
identityUserFlowAttribute.setDataType(IdentityUserFlowAttributeDataType.String);
IdentityUserFlowAttribute result = graphClient.identity().userFlowAttributes().post(identityUserFlowAttribute);

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 identityUserFlowAttribute = {
  displayName: 'Hobby',
  description: 'Your hobby',
  dataType: 'string'
};

await client.api('/identity/userFlowAttributes')
	.post(identityUserFlowAttribute);

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\IdentityUserFlowAttribute;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\IdentityUserFlowAttributeDataType;


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

$requestBody = new IdentityUserFlowAttribute();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Hobby');
$requestBody->setDescription('Your hobby');
$requestBody->setDataType(new IdentityUserFlowAttributeDataType('string'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->identity()->userFlowAttributes()->post($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.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	displayName = "Hobby"
	description = "Your hobby"
	dataType = "string"
}

New-MgIdentityUserFlowAttribute -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.identity_user_flow_attribute import IdentityUserFlowAttribute
from msgraph.generated.models.identity_user_flow_attribute_data_type import IdentityUserFlowAttributeDataType
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = IdentityUserFlowAttribute(
	display_name = "Hobby",
	description = "Your hobby",
	data_type = IdentityUserFlowAttributeDataType.String,
)

result = await graph_client.identity.user_flow_attributes.post(request_body)

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
Location: "/identity/userFlowAttributes('extension_d09380e2b4c642b9a203fb816a04a7ad_Hobby')"
Content-type: application/json

{
    "id": "extension_d09380e2b4c642b9a203fb816a04a7ad_Hobby",
    "displayName": "Hobby",
    "description": "Your hobby",
    "userFlowAttributeType": "custom",
    "dataType": "string"
}