Add attachment

• 1/11/2019
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Use this API to add an attachment to an event. Since there is currently a limit of 4MB on the total size of each REST request, this limits the size of the attachment you can add to under 4MB.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

HTTP request

Attachments for an event in the user's default calendar.

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

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

Attachments for an event in a calendar belonging to the user's default calendarGroup.

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

POST /me/calendargroup/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendargroup/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments

Attachments for an event in a calendar belonging to a user's calendarGroup.

POST /me/calendargroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/calendargroups/{id}/calendars/{id}/events/{id}/attachments

Request headers

Request body

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

Response

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

Example (file attachment)

Request

Here is an example of the request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events/AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=/attachments
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 151

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
    "name": "menu.txt",
    "contentBytes": "base64bWFjIGFuZCBjaGVlc2UgdG9kYXk="   
}

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

Response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('cd209b0b-3f83-4c35-82d2-d88a61820480')/events('AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA%3D')/attachments/$entity",
    "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
    "id":"AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAABEgAQAEdBogju-MJEu6Ngg-1_W0g=",
    "lastModifiedDateTime":"2017-04-15T03:21:49Z",
    "name":"menu.txt",
    "contentType":"text/plain",
    "size":178,
    "isInline":false,
    "contentId":null,
    "contentLocation":null,
    "contentBytes":"base64bWFjIGFuZCBjaGVlc2UgdG9kYXk="
}

Example (item attachment)

Request

Here is an example which attaches an event with another event as an item attachment.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/events/AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=/attachments
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 600

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.itemAttachment",
  "name": "Holiday event", 
  "item": {
        "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.event",
        "subject": "Discuss gifts for children",
        "body": {
            "contentType": "HTML",
            "content": "Let's look for funding!"
         },
         "start": {
             "dateTime": "2016-12-02T18:00:00",
             "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
          },
          "end": {
             "dateTime": "2016-12-02T19:00:00",
             "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
          }
    }
}

Response

Here is an example of the response.

HTTP 201 Created
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 162

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#me/events('AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=')/attachments/$entity",
    "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.itemAttachment",
    "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('fdcbcf34-2505-4d07-be5b-0a55b699d157@41a5b830-45ac-4f1b-9bfc-baafa3b7db2e')/events('AAMkAGI1AAAt9AHjAAA=')/attachments('AAMkADNkN2Jp5JVnQIe9r0=')",
    "id":"AAMkADNkNJp5JVnQIe9r0=",
    "lastModifiedDateTime":"2016-12-01T22:27:13Z",
    "name":"Holiday event",
    "contentType":null,
    "size":2473,
    "isInline":false
}