event: decline

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.

Decline invitation to the specified event in a user calendar.

If the event allows proposals for new times, on declining the event, an invitee can choose to suggest an alternative time by including the proposedNewTime parameter. For more information on how to propose a time, and how to receive and accept a new time proposal, see Propose new meeting times.

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)	Calendars.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Calendars.ReadWrite	Not available.
Application	Calendars.ReadWrite	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/events/{id}/decline
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/events/{id}/decline

POST /me/calendar/events/{id}/decline
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendar/events/{id}/decline

POST /me/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/decline
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/decline

POST /me/calendarGroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/decline
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendarGroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/decline

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	string	Nature of the data in the body of an entity. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
comment	String	Text included in the response. Optional.
sendResponse	Boolean	true if a response is to be sent to the organizer; otherwise, false. Optional. Default is true.
proposedNewTime	timeSlot	An alternate date/time proposed by an invitee for a meeting request to start and end. Valid only for events that allow new time proposals. Setting this parameter requires setting sendResponse to true. Optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

This action returns HTTP 400 if one or both of the following occur:

• The proposedNewTime parameter is included but the allowNewTimeProposals property of the event is false.
• The proposedNewTime parameter is included but the sendResponse parameter is set to false.

Example

Here is an example of how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/events/{id}/decline
Content-type: application/json

{
  "comment": "I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?",
  "sendResponse": true,
  "proposedNewTime": {
      "start": { 
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T18:00:00", 
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" 
      }, 
      "end": { 
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T19:00:00", 
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" 
      }     
  }
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Me.Events.Item.Decline;
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new DeclinePostRequestBody
{
	Comment = "I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?",
	SendResponse = true,
	ProposedNewTime = new TimeSlot
	{
		Start = new DateTimeTimeZone
		{
			DateTime = "2019-12-02T18:00:00",
			TimeZone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		},
		End = new DateTimeTimeZone
		{
			DateTime = "2019-12-02T19:00:00",
			TimeZone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Me.Events["{event-id}"].Decline.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 users events decline post --user-id {user-id} --event-id {event-id} --body '{\
  "comment": "I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?",\
  "sendResponse": true,\
  "proposedNewTime": {\
      "start": { \
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T18:00:00", \
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" \
      }, \
      "end": { \
          "dateTime": "2019-12-02T19:00:00", \
          "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time" \
      }     \
  }\
}\
'

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"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/users"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphusers.NewItemDeclinePostRequestBody()
comment := "I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?"
requestBody.SetComment(&comment) 
sendResponse := true
requestBody.SetSendResponse(&sendResponse) 
proposedNewTime := graphmodels.NewTimeSlot()
start := graphmodels.NewDateTimeTimeZone()
dateTime := "2019-12-02T18:00:00"
start.SetDateTime(&dateTime) 
timeZone := "Pacific Standard Time"
start.SetTimeZone(&timeZone) 
proposedNewTime.SetStart(start)
end := graphmodels.NewDateTimeTimeZone()
dateTime := "2019-12-02T19:00:00"
end.SetDateTime(&dateTime) 
timeZone := "Pacific Standard Time"
end.SetTimeZone(&timeZone) 
proposedNewTime.SetEnd(end)
requestBody.SetProposedNewTime(proposedNewTime)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Me().Events().ByEventId("event-id").Decline().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.users.item.events.item.decline.DeclinePostRequestBody declinePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.users.item.events.item.decline.DeclinePostRequestBody();
declinePostRequestBody.setComment("I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?");
declinePostRequestBody.setSendResponse(true);
TimeSlot proposedNewTime = new TimeSlot();
DateTimeTimeZone start = new DateTimeTimeZone();
start.setDateTime("2019-12-02T18:00:00");
start.setTimeZone("Pacific Standard Time");
proposedNewTime.setStart(start);
DateTimeTimeZone end = new DateTimeTimeZone();
end.setDateTime("2019-12-02T19:00:00");
end.setTimeZone("Pacific Standard Time");
proposedNewTime.setEnd(end);
declinePostRequestBody.setProposedNewTime(proposedNewTime);
graphClient.me().events().byEventId("{event-id}").decline().post(declinePostRequestBody);

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 decline = {
  comment: 'I won\'t be able to make this week. How about next week?',
  sendResponse: true,
  proposedNewTime: {
      start: { 
          dateTime: '2019-12-02T18:00:00', 
          timeZone: 'Pacific Standard Time' 
      }, 
      end: { 
          dateTime: '2019-12-02T19:00:00', 
          timeZone: 'Pacific Standard Time' 
      }     
  }
};

await client.api('/me/events/{id}/decline')
	.version('beta')
	.post(decline);

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\Users\Item\Events\Item\Decline\DeclinePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\TimeSlot;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\DateTimeTimeZone;


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

$requestBody = new DeclinePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setComment('I won\'t be able to make this week. How about next week?');
$requestBody->setSendResponse(true);
$proposedNewTime = new TimeSlot();
$proposedNewTimeStart = new DateTimeTimeZone();
$proposedNewTimeStart->setDateTime('2019-12-02T18:00:00');
$proposedNewTimeStart->setTimeZone('Pacific Standard Time');
$proposedNewTime->setStart($proposedNewTimeStart);
$proposedNewTimeEnd = new DateTimeTimeZone();
$proposedNewTimeEnd->setDateTime('2019-12-02T19:00:00');
$proposedNewTimeEnd->setTimeZone('Pacific Standard Time');
$proposedNewTime->setEnd($proposedNewTimeEnd);
$requestBody->setProposedNewTime($proposedNewTime);

$graphServiceClient->me()->events()->byEventId('event-id')->decline()->post($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.Users.Actions

$params = @{
	comment = "I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?"
	sendResponse = $true
	proposedNewTime = @{
		start = @{
			dateTime = "2019-12-02T18:00:00"
			timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time"
		}
		end = @{
			dateTime = "2019-12-02T19:00:00"
			timeZone = "Pacific Standard Time"
		}
	}
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Invoke-MgBetaDeclineUserEvent -UserId $userId -EventId $eventId -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.users.item.events.item.decline.decline_post_request_body import DeclinePostRequestBody
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.time_slot import TimeSlot
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.date_time_time_zone import DateTimeTimeZone
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DeclinePostRequestBody(
	comment = "I won't be able to make this week. How about next week?",
	send_response = True,
	proposed_new_time = TimeSlot(
		start = DateTimeTimeZone(
			date_time = "2019-12-02T18:00:00",
			time_zone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		),
		end = DateTimeTimeZone(
			date_time = "2019-12-02T19:00:00",
			time_zone = "Pacific Standard Time",
		),
	),
)

await graph_client.me.events.by_event_id('event-id').decline.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.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted