Create employees

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 an employee object in Dynamics 365 Business Central.

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

HTTP request

POST /financials/companies/{id}/employees

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json

Request body

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

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/financials/companies/{id}/employees
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "id-value",
  "number": "AH",
  "givenName": "Annette",
  "surname": "Hill",
  "jobTitle": "Production Assistant",
  "address": {
    "street": "677 Fifth Avenue",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "",
    "countryLetterCode": "",
    "postalCode": "10022"
  },
  "phoneNumber": "4465-4899-4643",
  "mobilePhone": "4564-4564-7831",
  "personalEmail": "ah@cronus-demosite.com",
  "employmentDate": "2001-06-01",
  "birthDate": "1973-12-12"  
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

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

{
  "id": "id-value",
  "number": "AH",
  "displayName": "Annette Hill",
  "givenName": "Annette",
  "middleName": "",
  "surname": "Hill",
  "jobTitle": "Secretary",
  "address": {
    "street": "677 Fifth Avenue",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "",
    "countryLetterCode": "",
    "postalCode": "10022"
  },
  "phoneNumber": "4465-4899-4643",
  "mobilePhone": "4564-4564-7831",
  "email": "",
  "personalEmail": "ah@cronus-demosite.com",
  "employmentDate": "2001-06-01",
  "terminationDate": "0001-01-01",
  "status": "Active",
  "birthDate": "1973-12-12",
  "picture@odata.mediaReadLink": "https://api.financials.dynamics.com/v1.0/api/beta/companies/{id}/employees/{id}/picture",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-03-16T14:57:19.497Z" 
}