Create personAnnotation

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new personAnnotation object in a user's profile.

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

HTTP request

POST /me/profile/notes
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/notes

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 the personAnnotation object.

The following table shows the properties that are possible to set within a new personAnnotation object in a user's profile.

Property	Type	Description
allowedAudiences	String	The audiences that are able to see the values contained within the entity. Inherited from itemFacet. Possible values are: me, family, contacts, groupMembers, organization, federatedOrganizations, everyone, unknownFutureValue.
detail	itemBody	Contains the detail of the note itself.
displayName	String	Contains a friendly name for the note.
inference	inferenceData	Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
source	personDataSource	Where the values originated if synced from another service. Inherited from itemFacet.

Response

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

Examples

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/notes
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "detail": {
    "contentType": "text",
    "content": "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia."
  },
  "displayName": "About Me"
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new PersonAnnotation
{
	Detail = new ItemBody
	{
		ContentType = BodyType.Text,
		Content = "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia.",
	},
	DisplayName = "About Me",
};

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc-beta users profile notes create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "detail": {\
    "contentType": "text",\
    "content": "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia."\
  },\
  "displayName": "About Me"\
}\
'

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.

Go

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewPersonAnnotation()
detail := graphmodels.NewItemBody()
contentType := graphmodels.TEXT_BODYTYPE 
detail.SetContentType(&contentType) 
content := "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia."
detail.SetContent(&content) 
requestBody.SetDetail(detail)
displayName := "About Me"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

notes, err := graphClient.Me().Profile().Notes().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

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.

Java

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

PersonAnnotation personAnnotation = new PersonAnnotation();
ItemBody detail = new ItemBody();
detail.setContentType(BodyType.Text);
detail.setContent("I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia.");
personAnnotation.setDetail(detail);
personAnnotation.setDisplayName("About Me");
PersonAnnotation result = graphClient.me().profile().notes().post(personAnnotation);

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.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const personAnnotation = {
  detail: {
    contentType: 'text',
    content: 'I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia.'
  },
  displayName: 'About Me'
};

await client.api('/me/profile/notes')
	.version('beta')
	.post(personAnnotation);

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.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\PersonAnnotation;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ItemBody;


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

$requestBody = new PersonAnnotation();
$detail = new ItemBody();
$detail->setContentType(new BodyType('text'));
$detail->setContent('I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia.');
$requestBody->setDetail($detail);
$requestBody->setDisplayName('About Me');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->profile()->notes()->post($requestBody)->wait();

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.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.People

$params = @{
	detail = @{
		contentType = "text"
		content = "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia."
	}
	displayName = "About Me"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserProfileNote -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

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.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.person_annotation import PersonAnnotation
from msgraph.generated.models.item_body import ItemBody

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = PersonAnnotation(
	detail = ItemBody(
		content_type = BodyType.Text,
		content = "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia.",
	),
	display_name = "About Me",
)

result = await graph_client.me.profile.notes.post(request_body)

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.

Response

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

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

{
  "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
  "allowedAudiences": "organization",
  "inference": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
    }
  },
  "detail": {
    "contentType": "text",
    "content": "I am originally from Australia, but grew up in Moscow, Russia."
  },
  "displayName": "About Me"
}