Create connection

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11/08/2023

Namespace: microsoft.graph.externalConnectors

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 externalConnection.

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)	ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.OwnedBy	ExternalConnection.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /external/connections

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 an externalConnection object.

Response

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

Note: When you create an external connection with a broken adaptive card for the result layout, the first call will fail with a 503 Service Unavailable. When you try the call again, the second call will fail with a 409 Conflict response that states that a connection with the same name already exists. This happens because the connection was created even though the first call failed with 503 Service Unavailable. For more details, see Known issues.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/external/connections
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "contosohr",
  "name": "Contoso HR",
  "description": "Connection to index Contoso HR system"
}


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

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

var requestBody = new ExternalConnection
{
	Id = "contosohr",
	Name = "Contoso HR",
	Description = "Connection to index Contoso HR system",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.External.Connections.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.


// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc-beta external connections create --body '{\
  "id": "contosohr",\
  "name": "Contoso HR",\
  "description": "Connection to index Contoso HR system"\
}\
'

Important

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



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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodelsexternalconnectors.NewExternalConnection()
id := "contosohr"
requestBody.SetId(&id) 
name := "Contoso HR"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
description := "Connection to index Contoso HR system"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 

connections, err := graphClient.External().Connections().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.externalconnectors.ExternalConnection externalConnection = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.externalconnectors.ExternalConnection();
externalConnection.setId("contosohr");
externalConnection.setName("Contoso HR");
externalConnection.setDescription("Connection to index Contoso HR system");
com.microsoft.graph.models.externalconnectors.ExternalConnection result = graphClient.external().connections().post(externalConnection);

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const externalConnection = {
  id: 'contosohr',
  name: 'Contoso HR',
  description: 'Connection to index Contoso HR system'
};

await client.api('/external/connections')
	.version('beta')
	.post(externalConnection);

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ExternalConnection;


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

$requestBody = new ExternalConnection();
$requestBody->setId('contosohr');
$requestBody->setName('Contoso HR');
$requestBody->setDescription('Connection to index Contoso HR system');

$result = $graphServiceClient->external()->connections()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Search

$params = @{
	id = "contosohr"
	name = "Contoso HR"
	description = "Connection to index Contoso HR system"
}

New-MgBetaExternalConnection -BodyParameter $params

Important

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


from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.external_connection import ExternalConnection

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = ExternalConnection(
	id = "contosohr",
	name = "Contoso HR",
	description = "Connection to index Contoso HR system",
)

result = await graph_client.external.connections.post(request_body)

Important

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

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

{
  "id": "contosohr",
  "name": "Contoso HR",
  "description": "Connection to index Contoso HR system",
  "state": "draft",
  "configuration": {
    "authorizedAppIds": [
      "d310d35d-72ec-47dd-92f2-fb9c40936555"
    ]
  }
}

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