Create thread

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.

Create a new thread in the specified conversation.

A thread and post are created as specified. Use reply thread to further post to that thread. Or, if you get the post ID, you can also reply to that post in that thread.

Note: You can also start a new conversation by first creating a thread.

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)	Group-Conversation.ReadWrite.All	Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /groups/{id}/conversations/{id}/threads

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the conversationThread object.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/4d81ce71-486c-41e9-afc5-e41bf2d0722a/conversations/AAQkAGRhZmRhMWM3LTYwZTktNDZmYy1hNWU1LThhZWU4NzI2YTEyZgAQABKPPJ682apIiV1UFlj7XxY=/threads
Content-type: application/json

{
    "topic": "Take your wellness days and rest",
    "posts": [
        {
            "body": {
                "contentType": "html",
                "content": "Waiting for the summer holidays."
            }
        }
    ]
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new ConversationThread
{
	Topic = "Take your wellness days and rest",
	Posts = new List<Post>
	{
		new Post
		{
			Body = new ItemBody
			{
				ContentType = BodyType.Html,
				Content = "Waiting for the summer holidays.",
			},
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].Conversations["{conversation-id}"].Threads.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

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc-beta groups conversations threads create --group-id {group-id} --conversation-id {conversation-id} --body '{\
    "topic": "Take your wellness days and rest",\
    "posts": [\
        {\
            "body": {\
                "contentType": "html",\
                "content": "Waiting for the summer holidays."\
            }\
        }\
    ]\
}\
'

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

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationThread()
topic := "Take your wellness days and rest"
requestBody.SetTopic(&topic) 


post := graphmodels.NewPost()
body := graphmodels.NewItemBody()
contentType := graphmodels.HTML_BODYTYPE 
body.SetContentType(&contentType) 
content := "Waiting for the summer holidays."
body.SetContent(&content) 
post.SetBody(body)

posts := []graphmodels.Postable {
	post,
}
requestBody.SetPosts(posts)

threads, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").Conversations().ByConversationId("conversation-id").Threads().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);

ConversationThread conversationThread = new ConversationThread();
conversationThread.setTopic("Take your wellness days and rest");
LinkedList<Post> posts = new LinkedList<Post>();
Post post = new Post();
ItemBody body = new ItemBody();
body.setContentType(BodyType.Html);
body.setContent("Waiting for the summer holidays.");
post.setBody(body);
posts.add(post);
conversationThread.setPosts(posts);
ConversationThread result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").conversations().byConversationId("{conversation-id}").threads().post(conversationThread);

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 conversationThread = {
    topic: 'Take your wellness days and rest',
    posts: [
        {
            body: {
                contentType: 'html',
                content: 'Waiting for the summer holidays.'
            }
        }
    ]
};

await client.api('/groups/4d81ce71-486c-41e9-afc5-e41bf2d0722a/conversations/AAQkAGRhZmRhMWM3LTYwZTktNDZmYy1hNWU1LThhZWU4NzI2YTEyZgAQABKPPJ682apIiV1UFlj7XxY=/threads')
	.version('beta')
	.post(conversationThread);

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\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConversationThread;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Post;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ItemBody;


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

$requestBody = new ConversationThread();
$requestBody->setTopic('Take your wellness days and rest');
$postsPost1 = new Post();
$postsPost1Body = new ItemBody();
$postsPost1Body->setContentType(new BodyType('html'));
$postsPost1Body->setContent('Waiting for the summer holidays.');
$postsPost1->setBody($postsPost1Body);
$postsArray []= $postsPost1;
$requestBody->setPosts($postsArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->conversations()->byConversationId('conversation-id')->threads()->post($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.Groups

$params = @{
	topic = "Take your wellness days and rest"
	posts = @(
		@{
			body = @{
				contentType = "html"
				content = "Waiting for the summer holidays."
			}
		}
	)
}

New-MgBetaGroupConversationThread -GroupId $groupId -ConversationId $conversationId -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

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.conversation_thread import ConversationThread
from msgraph.generated.models.post import Post
from msgraph.generated.models.item_body import ItemBody

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ConversationThread(
	topic = "Take your wellness days and rest",
	posts = [
		Post(
			body = ItemBody(
				content_type = BodyType.Html,
				content = "Waiting for the summer holidays.",
			),
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').conversations.by_conversation_id('conversation-id').threads.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.

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of conversationThread object.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and the id of the new thread in the response body.

The following example shows the response.

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#groups('4d81ce71-486c-41e9-afc5-e41bf2d0722a')/conversations('AAQkAGRhZmRhMWM3LTYwZTktNDZmYy1hNWU1LThhZWU4NzI2YTEyZgAQABKPPJ682apIiV1UFlj7XxY%3D')/threads/$entity",
    "id": "AAQkAGRhZmRhMWM3LTYwZTktNDZmYy1hNWU1LThhZWU4NzI2YTEyZgMkABAAMgNmxDXX0UO0DI-I807i0hAAMgNmxDXX0UO0DI-I807i0g=="
}