Create ediscoveryCase

Namespace: microsoft.graph.security

Create a new ediscoveryCase object.

Note

This API only creates an eDiscovery (Premium) case using the new case format. To learn more about the new case format in eDiscovery, see Use the new case format in eDiscovery (Premium).

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)	eDiscovery.Read.All	eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

POST /security/cases/ediscoveryCases

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 ediscoveryCase object.

You can specify the following properties when you create an ediscoveryCase.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	The name of the eDiscovery case. Required.
description	String	The case description. Optional.
externalId	String	The external case number for customer reference. Optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an microsoft.graph.security.ediscoveryCase object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/security/cases/ediscoveryCases
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "displayName": "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
    "description": "Project Bazooka",
    "externalId": "324516"
}

C#

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

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

var requestBody = new EdiscoveryCase
{
	DisplayName = "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
	Description = "Project Bazooka",
	ExternalId = "324516",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Security.Cases.EdiscoveryCases.PostAsync(requestBody);

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 security cases ediscovery-cases create --body '{\
    "displayName": "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",\
    "description": "Project Bazooka",\
    "externalId": "324516"\
}\
'

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-sdk-go"
	  graphmodelssecurity "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models/security"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodelssecurity.NewEdiscoveryCase()
displayName := "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Project Bazooka"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
externalId := "324516"
requestBody.SetExternalId(&externalId) 

ediscoveryCases, err := graphClient.Security().Cases().EdiscoveryCases().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

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);

com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCase ediscoveryCase = new com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCase();
ediscoveryCase.setDisplayName("CONTOSO LITIGATION-005");
ediscoveryCase.setDescription("Project Bazooka");
ediscoveryCase.setExternalId("324516");
com.microsoft.graph.models.security.EdiscoveryCase result = graphClient.security().cases().ediscoveryCases().post(ediscoveryCase);

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 ediscoveryCase = {
    displayName: 'CONTOSO LITIGATION-005',
    description: 'Project Bazooka',
    externalId: '324516'
};

await client.api('/security/cases/ediscoveryCases')
	.post(ediscoveryCase);

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\EdiscoveryCase;


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

$requestBody = new EdiscoveryCase();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('CONTOSO LITIGATION-005');
$requestBody->setDescription('Project Bazooka');
$requestBody->setExternalId('324516');

$result = $graphServiceClient->security()->cases()->ediscoveryCases()->post($requestBody)->wait();

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.Security

$params = @{
	displayName = "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005"
	description = "Project Bazooka"
	externalId = "324516"
}

New-MgSecurityCaseEdiscoveryCase -BodyParameter $params

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.ediscovery_case import EdiscoveryCase

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = EdiscoveryCase(
	display_name = "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
	description = "Project Bazooka",
	external_id = "324516",
)

result = await graph_client.security.cases.ediscovery_cases.post(request_body)

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.

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

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#security/cases/ediscoveryCases/$entity",
    "description": "Project Bazooka",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2022-05-22T18:36:48.0834353Z",
    "status": "active",
    "closedDateTime": "2022-05-22T18:36:48.083436Z",
    "externalId": "324516",
    "id": "22aa2acd-7554-4330-9ba9-ce20014aaae4",
    "displayName": "CONTOSO LITIGATION-005",
    "createdDateTime": "2022-05-22T18:36:48.0834351Z",
    "lastModifiedBy": null,
    "closedBy": null
}