Update task

Namespace: microsoft.graph.identityGovernance

Update the properties of a task 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)	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.Workflows	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.Workflows	LifecycleWorkflows.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. Lifecycle Workflows Administrator is the least privileged role supported for this operation.

HTTP request

PATCH /identityGovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/{workflowId}/tasks/{taskId}

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 only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property	Type	Description
description	String	Describes the purpose of the task for administrative use.
displayName	String	A unique string that identifies the task within the workflow.

Note

All other properties can be updated by creating a new workflow version. For details, see workflow: createNewVersion.

Response

If successful, this action returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identitygovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/8696088c-1aef-4f65-afe9-acd55343e327/tasks/eb0b8bc2-7756-4429-8ce8-b9f09063cf54
Content-Type: application/json
Content-length: 454

{
    "description": "Add user to selected groups",
    "displayName": "Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up",
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models.IdentityGovernance;

var requestBody = new TaskObject
{
	Description = "Add user to selected groups",
	DisplayName = "Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityGovernance.LifecycleWorkflows.Workflows["{workflow-id}"].Tasks["{task-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc identity-governance lifecycle-workflows workflows tasks patch --workflow-id {workflow-id} --task-id {task-id} --body '{\
    "description": "Add user to selected groups",\
    "displayName": "Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up",\
}\
'

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"
	  graphmodelsidentitygovernance "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models/identitygovernance"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodelsidentitygovernance.NewTask()
description := "Add user to selected groups"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
displayName := "Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
tasks, err := graphClient.IdentityGovernance().LifecycleWorkflows().Workflows().ByWorkflowId("workflow-id").Tasks().ByTaskId("task-id").Patch(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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task task = new com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task();
task.setDescription("Add user to selected groups");
task.setDisplayName("Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up");
com.microsoft.graph.models.identitygovernance.Task result = graphClient.identityGovernance().lifecycleWorkflows().workflows().byWorkflowId("{workflow-id}").tasks().byTaskId("{task-id}").patch(task);

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 task = {
    description: 'Add user to selected groups',
    displayName: 'Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up',
};

await client.api('/identitygovernance/lifecycleWorkflows/workflows/8696088c-1aef-4f65-afe9-acd55343e327/tasks/eb0b8bc2-7756-4429-8ce8-b9f09063cf54')
	.update(task);

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\IdentityGovernance\Task;


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

$requestBody = new Task();
$requestBody->setDescription('Add user to selected groups');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up');

$result = $graphServiceClient->identityGovernance()->lifecycleWorkflows()->workflows()->byWorkflowId('workflow-id')->tasks()->byTaskId('task-id')->patch($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.Governance

$params = @{
	description = "Add user to selected groups"
	displayName = "Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up"
}

Update-MgIdentityGovernanceLifecycleWorkflowTask -WorkflowId $workflowId -TaskId $taskId -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_governance.task import Task
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Task(
	description = "Add user to selected groups",
	display_name = "Update marketing day 1 add users to Group set up",
)

result = await graph_client.identity_governance.lifecycle_workflows.workflows.by_workflow_id('workflow-id').tasks.by_task_id('task-id').patch(request_body)

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content