Namespace: microsoft.graph
Sends a sharing invitation for a driveItem.
A sharing invitation provides permissions to the recipients and optionally sends them an email with a sharing link.
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) |
Files.ReadWrite |
Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Files.ReadWrite |
Files.ReadWrite.All |
Application |
Files.ReadWrite.All |
Sites.ReadWrite.All |
HTTP request
POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}/invite
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}/invite
POST /me/drive/items/{item-id}/invite
POST /sites/{siteId}/drive/items/{itemId}/invite
POST /users/{userId}/drive/items/{itemId}/invite
Request body
In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.
{
"requireSignIn": false,
"sendInvitation": false,
"roles": [ "read | write"],
"recipients": [
{ "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.driveRecipient" },
{ "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.driveRecipient" }
],
"message": "string"
}
Parameter |
Type |
Description |
recipients |
Collection(DriveRecipient) |
A collection of recipients who will receive access and the sharing invitation. |
message |
String |
A plain text formatted message that is included in the sharing invitation. Maximum length 2000 characters. |
requireSignIn |
Boolean |
Specifies whether the recipient of the invitation is required to sign-in to view the shared item. |
sendInvitation |
Boolean |
If true, a sharing link is sent to the recipient. Otherwise, a permission is granted directly without sending a notification. |
roles |
Collection(String) |
Specifies the roles that are to be granted to the recipients of the sharing invitation. |
expirationDateTime |
DateTimeOffset |
Specifies the dateTime after which the permission expires. For OneDrive for Business and SharePoint, xpirationDateTime is only applicable for sharingLink permissions. Available on OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, and premium personal OneDrive accounts. |
password |
String |
The password set on the invite by the creator. Optional and OneDrive Personal only. |
retainInheritedPermissions |
Boolean |
Optional. If true (default), any existing inherited permissions are retained on the shared item when sharing this item for the first time. If false , all existing permissions are removed when sharing for the first time. |
Example
This example sends a sharing invitation to a user with email address "[email protected]" with a message about a file being collaborated on.
The invitation grants Ryan read-write access to the file.
HTTP request
If successful, this method returns 200 OK
response code and permission collection object in the response body.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}/invite
Content-type: application/json
{
"recipients": [
{
"email": "[email protected]"
}
],
"message": "Here's the file that we're collaborating on.",
"requireSignIn": true,
"sendInvitation": true,
"roles": [ "write" ],
"password": "password123",
"expirationDateTime": "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Drives.Item.Items.Item.Invite;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new InvitePostRequestBody
{
Recipients = new List<DriveRecipient>
{
new DriveRecipient
{
Email = "[email protected]",
},
},
Message = "Here's the file that we're collaborating on.",
RequireSignIn = true,
SendInvitation = true,
Roles = new List<string>
{
"write",
},
Password = "password123",
ExpirationDateTime = "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Invite.PostAsInvitePostResponseAsync(requestBody);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
mgc drives items invite post --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id} --body '{\
"recipients": [\
{\
"email": "[email protected]"\
}\
],\
"message": "Here's the file that we're collaborating on.",\
"requireSignIn": true,\
"sendInvitation": true,\
"roles": [ "write" ],\
"password": "password123",\
"expirationDateTime": "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z"\
}\
'
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 major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphdrives "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/drives"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphdrives.NewInvitePostRequestBody()
driveRecipient := graphmodels.NewDriveRecipient()
email := "[email protected]"
driveRecipient.SetEmail(&email)
recipients := []graphmodels.DriveRecipientable {
driveRecipient,
}
requestBody.SetRecipients(recipients)
message := "Here's the file that we're collaborating on."
requestBody.SetMessage(&message)
requireSignIn := true
requestBody.SetRequireSignIn(&requireSignIn)
sendInvitation := true
requestBody.SetSendInvitation(&sendInvitation)
roles := []string {
"write",
}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
password := "password123"
requestBody.SetPassword(&password)
expirationDateTime := "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z"
requestBody.SetExpirationDateTime(&expirationDateTime)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
invite, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Invite().PostAsInvitePostResponse(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
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.drives.item.items.item.invite.InvitePostRequestBody invitePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.drives.item.items.item.invite.InvitePostRequestBody();
LinkedList<DriveRecipient> recipients = new LinkedList<DriveRecipient>();
DriveRecipient driveRecipient = new DriveRecipient();
driveRecipient.setEmail("[email protected]");
recipients.add(driveRecipient);
invitePostRequestBody.setRecipients(recipients);
invitePostRequestBody.setMessage("Here's the file that we're collaborating on.");
invitePostRequestBody.setRequireSignIn(true);
invitePostRequestBody.setSendInvitation(true);
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("write");
invitePostRequestBody.setRoles(roles);
invitePostRequestBody.setPassword("password123");
invitePostRequestBody.setExpirationDateTime("2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z");
var result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").invite().post(invitePostRequestBody);
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 permission = {
recipients: [
{
email: '[email protected]'
}
],
message: 'Here\'s the file that we\'re collaborating on.',
requireSignIn: true,
sendInvitation: true,
roles: [ 'write' ],
password: 'password123',
expirationDateTime: '2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z'
};
await client.api('/me/drive/items/{item-id}/invite')
.post(permission);
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\Drives\Item\Items\Item\Invite\InvitePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\DriveRecipient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new InvitePostRequestBody();
$recipientsDriveRecipient1 = new DriveRecipient();
$recipientsDriveRecipient1->setEmail('[email protected]');
$recipientsArray []= $recipientsDriveRecipient1;
$requestBody->setRecipients($recipientsArray);
$requestBody->setMessage('Here\'s the file that we\'re collaborating on.');
$requestBody->setRequireSignIn(true);
$requestBody->setSendInvitation(true);
$requestBody->setRoles(['write', ]);
$requestBody->setPassword('password123');
$requestBody->setExpirationDateTime('2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z');
$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->invite()->post($requestBody)->wait();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Files
$params = @{
recipients = @(
@{
email = "[email protected]"
}
)
message = "Here's the file that we're collaborating on."
requireSignIn = $true
sendInvitation = $true
roles = @(
"write"
)
password = "password123"
expirationDateTime = "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z"
}
Invoke-MgInviteDriveItem -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId -BodyParameter $params
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 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.drives.item.items.item.invite.invite_post_request_body import InvitePostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.drive_recipient import DriveRecipient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = InvitePostRequestBody(
recipients = [
DriveRecipient(
email = "[email protected]",
),
],
message = "Here's the file that we're collaborating on.",
require_sign_in = True,
send_invitation = True,
roles = [
"write",
],
password = "password123",
expiration_date_time = "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z",
)
result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').invite.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.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"value": [
{
"@deprecated.GrantedTo": "GrantedTo has been deprecated. Refer to GrantedToV2",
"grantedTo": {
"user": {
"displayName": "Robin Danielsen",
"id": "42F177F1-22C0-4BE3-900D-4507125C5C20"
}
},
"grantedToV2": {
"user": {
"id": "42F177F1-22C0-4BE3-900D-4507125C5C20",
"displayName": "Robin Danielsen"
},
"siteUser": {
"id": "1",
"displayName": "Robin Danielsen",
"loginName": "Robin Danielsen"
}
},
"hasPassword": true,
"id": "CCFC7CA3-7A19-4D57-8CEF-149DB9DDFA62",
"invitation": {
"email": "[email protected]",
"signInRequired": true
},
"roles": [ "write" ],
"expirationDateTime": "2018-07-15T14:00:00.000Z"
}
]
}
- Drives with a driveType of
personal
(OneDrive personal) cannot create or modify permissions on the root DriveItem.
- For a list of available roles, see roles property values.
Error responses
Read the Error Responses topic for more information about
how errors are returned.