Teams - Create

Service:

Core

API Version:

5.1

Create a team in a team project.

Possible failure scenarios Invalid project name/ID (project doesn't exist) 404 Invalid team name or description 400 Team already exists 400 Insufficient privileges 400

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/projects/{projectId}/teams?api-version=5.1

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
organization	path	True	string	The name of the Azure DevOps organization.
projectId	path	True	string	The name or ID (GUID) of the team project in which to create the team.
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '5.1' to use this version of the api.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Team description
id	string	Team (Identity) Guid. A Team Foundation ID.
identity	Identity	Team identity.
identityUrl	string	Identity REST API Url to this team
name	string	Team name
projectId	string
projectName	string
url	string	Team REST API Url

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	WebApiTeam	successful operation

Security

oauth2

Type: oauth2
Flow: accessCode
Authorization URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize&response_type=Assertion
Token URL: https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/token?client_assertion_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer&grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer

Scopes

Name	Description
vso.project_manage	Grants the ability to create, read, update, and delete projects and teams.

Examples

Sample Request

HTTP

POST https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/projects/8e5a3cfb-fed3-46f3-8657-e3b175cd0305/teams?api-version=5.1

{
  "name": "My new team"
}

Sample Response

Status code:

200

{
  "id": "8e8aa4ff-848a-474a-9033-93190137c8e4",
  "name": "My New Team",
  "url": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/projects/8e5a3cfb-fed3-46f3-8657-e3b175cd0305/teams/8e8aa4ff-848a-474a-9033-93190137c8e4",
  "description": "",
  "identityUrl": "https://vssps.dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/Identities/8e8aa4ff-848a-474a-9033-93190137c8e4"
}

Definitions

Name	Description
Identity
IdentityDescriptor	An Identity descriptor is a wrapper for the identity type (Windows SID, Passport) along with a unique identifier such as the SID or PUID.
PropertiesCollection	The class represents a property bag as a collection of key-value pairs. Values of all primitive types (any type with a TypeCode != TypeCode.Object) except for DBNull are accepted. Values of type Byte[], Int32, Double, DateType and String preserve their type, other primitives are retuned as a String. Byte[] expected as base64 encoded string.
WebApiTeam

Identity

Name	Type	Description
customDisplayName	string	The custom display name for the identity (if any). Setting this property to an empty string will clear the existing custom display name. Setting this property to null will not affect the existing persisted value (since null values do not get sent over the wire or to the database)
descriptor	IdentityDescriptor	An Identity descriptor is a wrapper for the identity type (Windows SID, Passport) along with a unique identifier such as the SID or PUID.
id	string
isActive	boolean
isContainer	boolean
masterId	string
memberIds	string[]
memberOf	IdentityDescriptor[]	An Identity descriptor is a wrapper for the identity type (Windows SID, Passport) along with a unique identifier such as the SID or PUID.
members	IdentityDescriptor[]	An Identity descriptor is a wrapper for the identity type (Windows SID, Passport) along with a unique identifier such as the SID or PUID.
metaTypeId	integer
properties	PropertiesCollection	The class represents a property bag as a collection of key-value pairs. Values of all primitive types (any type with a TypeCode != TypeCode.Object) except for DBNull are accepted. Values of type Byte[], Int32, Double, DateType and String preserve their type, other primitives are retuned as a String. Byte[] expected as base64 encoded string.
providerDisplayName	string	The display name for the identity as specified by the source identity provider.
resourceVersion	integer
socialDescriptor	string
subjectDescriptor	string
uniqueUserId	integer

IdentityDescriptor

An Identity descriptor is a wrapper for the identity type (Windows SID, Passport) along with a unique identifier such as the SID or PUID.

Name	Type	Description
identifier	string	The unique identifier for this identity, not exceeding 256 chars, which will be persisted.
identityType	string	Type of descriptor (for example, Windows, Passport, etc.).

PropertiesCollection

The class represents a property bag as a collection of key-value pairs. Values of all primitive types (any type with a TypeCode != TypeCode.Object) except for DBNull are accepted. Values of type Byte[], Int32, Double, DateType and String preserve their type, other primitives are retuned as a String. Byte[] expected as base64 encoded string.

Name	Type	Description
count	integer	The count of properties in the collection.
item	object
keys	string[]	The set of keys in the collection.
values	string[]	The set of values in the collection.

WebApiTeam

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Team description
id	string	Team (Identity) Guid. A Team Foundation ID.
identity	Identity	Team identity.
identityUrl	string	Identity REST API Url to this team
name	string	Team name
projectId	string
projectName	string
url	string	Team REST API Url