Update outlookCategory

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the writable property, color, of the specified outlookCategory object. You can't modify the displayName property once you have created the category.

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) MailboxSettings.ReadWrite Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) MailboxSettings.ReadWrite Not available.
Application MailboxSettings.ReadWrite Not available.

HTTP request

PATCH /me/outlook/masterCategories/{id}
PATCH /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/outlook/masterCategories/{id}

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property Type Description
color String A preset color constant that characterizes a category, and that is mapped to one of 25 predefined colors.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated outlookCategory object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/outlook/masterCategories/bac262b7-485d-4739-b436-e31467d64fac
Content-type: application/json

{
  "color":"preset15"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

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

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('8ae6f565-0d7f-4ead-853e-7db94c912a1f')/outlook/masterCategories/$entity",
  "id":"bac262b7-485d-4739-b436-e31467d64fac",
  "displayName":"Project expenses",
  "color":"preset15"
}