Create skillProficiency

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.

Use this API to create a new skillProficiency object in a user's profile.

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

HTTP request

POST /me/profile/skills
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/skills

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 skillProficiency object.

The following table shows the properties that are possible to set when you create a new skillProficiency object in a user's profile.

Property	Type	Description
allowedAudiences	String	The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: me, family, contacts, groupMembers, organization, federatedOrganizations, everyone, unknownFutureValue.
categories	String collection	Contains categories a user has associated with the skill (for example, personal, professional, hobby).
collaborationTags	String collection	Contains experience scenario tags a user has associated with the interest. Allowed values in the collection are: askMeAbout, ableToMentor, wantsToLearn, wantsToImprove.
displayName	String	Contains a friendly name for the skill.
inference	inferenceData	Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
proficiency	skillProficiencyLevel	Detail of the users proficiency with this skill. Possible values are: elementary, limitedWorking, generalProfessional, advancedProfessional, expert, unknownFutureValue.
source	personDataSource	Where the values originated if synced from another service. Inherited from itemFacet.
webUrl	String	Contains a link to an information source about the skill.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/skills
Content-type: application/json

{
  "categories": [
    "Professional"
  ],
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "displayName": "API Design",
  "proficiency": "generalProfessional",
  "collaborationTags": [
    "ableToMentor"
  ]
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new SkillProficiency
{
	Categories = new List<string>
	{
		"Professional",
	},
	AllowedAudiences = AllowedAudiences.Organization,
	DisplayName = "API Design",
	Proficiency = SkillProficiencyLevel.GeneralProfessional,
	CollaborationTags = new List<string>
	{
		"ableToMentor",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Profile.Skills.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 profile skills create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "categories": [\
    "Professional"\
  ],\
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",\
  "displayName": "API Design",\
  "proficiency": "generalProfessional",\
  "collaborationTags": [\
    "ableToMentor"\
  ]\
}\
'

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewSkillProficiency()
categories := []string {
	"Professional",
}
requestBody.SetCategories(categories)
allowedAudiences := graphmodels.ORGANIZATION_ALLOWEDAUDIENCES 
requestBody.SetAllowedAudiences(&allowedAudiences) 
displayName := "API Design"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
proficiency := graphmodels.GENERALPROFESSIONAL_SKILLPROFICIENCYLEVEL 
requestBody.SetProficiency(&proficiency) 
collaborationTags := []string {
	"ableToMentor",
}
requestBody.SetCollaborationTags(collaborationTags)

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

SkillProficiency skillProficiency = new SkillProficiency();
LinkedList<String> categories = new LinkedList<String>();
categories.add("Professional");
skillProficiency.setCategories(categories);
skillProficiency.setAllowedAudiences(EnumSet.of(AllowedAudiences.Organization));
skillProficiency.setDisplayName("API Design");
skillProficiency.setProficiency(SkillProficiencyLevel.GeneralProfessional);
LinkedList<String> collaborationTags = new LinkedList<String>();
collaborationTags.add("ableToMentor");
skillProficiency.setCollaborationTags(collaborationTags);
SkillProficiency result = graphClient.me().profile().skills().post(skillProficiency);

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 skillProficiency = {
  categories: [
    'Professional'
  ],
  allowedAudiences: 'organization',
  displayName: 'API Design',
  proficiency: 'generalProfessional',
  collaborationTags: [
    'ableToMentor'
  ]
};

await client.api('/me/profile/skills')
	.version('beta')
	.post(skillProficiency);

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\SkillProficiency;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\AllowedAudiences;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\SkillProficiencyLevel;


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

$requestBody = new SkillProficiency();
$requestBody->setCategories(['Professional', 	]);
$requestBody->setAllowedAudiences(new AllowedAudiences('organization'));
$requestBody->setDisplayName('API Design');
$requestBody->setProficiency(new SkillProficiencyLevel('generalProfessional'));
$requestBody->setCollaborationTags(['ableToMentor', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->profile()->skills()->post($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.People

$params = @{
	categories = @(
	"Professional"
)
allowedAudiences = "organization"
displayName = "API Design"
proficiency = "generalProfessional"
collaborationTags = @(
"ableToMentor"
)
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserProfileSkill -UserId $userId -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.skill_proficiency import SkillProficiency
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.allowed_audiences import AllowedAudiences
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.skill_proficiency_level import SkillProficiencyLevel
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = SkillProficiency(
	categories = [
		"Professional",
	],
	allowed_audiences = AllowedAudiences.Organization,
	display_name = "API Design",
	proficiency = SkillProficiencyLevel.GeneralProfessional,
	collaboration_tags = [
		"ableToMentor",
	],
)

result = await graph_client.me.profile.skills.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

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "inference": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "source": null,
  "categories": [
    "Professional"
  ],
  "displayName": "API Design",
  "proficiency": "advancedProfessional",
  "webUrl": null,
  "collaborationTags": [
    "ableToMentor"
  ]
}