Create languageProficiency

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10/27/2023

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Use this API to create a new languageProficiency 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
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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/languages
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/languages

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 languageProficiency object.

The following table shows the properties that are possible to set when you create a new languageProficiency 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`.
displayName	String	Contains the long-form name for the language.
inference	inferenceData	Contains inference detail if the entity is inferred by the creating or modifying application. Inherited from itemFacet.
reading	languageProficiencyLevel	Represents the users reading comprehension for the language represented by the object. Possible values are: `elementary`, `conversational`, `limitedWorking`, `professionalWorking`, `fullProfessional`, `nativeOrBilingual`, `unknownFutureValue`.
source	personDataSource	Where the values originated if synced from another service. Inherited from itemFacet.
spoken	languageProficiencyLevel	Represents the users spoken proficiency for the language represented by the object. Possible values are: `elementary`, `conversational`, `limitedWorking`, `professionalWorking`, `fullProfessional`, `nativeOrBilingual`, `unknownFutureValue`.
tag	String	Contains the four-character BCP47 name for the language (en-US, no-NB, en-AU).
written	languageProficiencyLevel	Represents the users written proficiency for the language represented by the object. Possible values are: `elementary`, `conversational`, `limitedWorking`, `professionalWorking`, `fullProfessional`, `nativeOrBilingual`, `unknownFutureValue`.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/languages
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Norwegian Bokmål",
  "tag": "nb-NO",
  "spoken": "nativeOrBilingual",
  "written": "nativeOrBilingual",
  "reading": "nativeOrBilingual"
}


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

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

var requestBody = new LanguageProficiency
{
	DisplayName = "Norwegian Bokmål",
	Tag = "nb-NO",
	Spoken = LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual,
	Written = LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual,
	Reading = LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual,
};

// 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.Languages.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.



mgc-beta users profile languages create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Norwegian Bokmål",\
  "tag": "nb-NO",\
  "spoken": "nativeOrBilingual",\
  "written": "nativeOrBilingual",\
  "reading": "nativeOrBilingual"\
}\
'

Important

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 $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewLanguageProficiency()
displayName := "Norwegian Bokmål"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
tag := "nb-NO"
requestBody.SetTag(&tag) 
spoken := graphmodels.NATIVEORBILINGUAL_LANGUAGEPROFICIENCYLEVEL 
requestBody.SetSpoken(&spoken) 
written := graphmodels.NATIVEORBILINGUAL_LANGUAGEPROFICIENCYLEVEL 
requestBody.SetWritten(&written) 
reading := graphmodels.NATIVEORBILINGUAL_LANGUAGEPROFICIENCYLEVEL 
requestBody.SetReading(&reading) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
languages, err := graphClient.Me().Profile().Languages().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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);

LanguageProficiency languageProficiency = new LanguageProficiency();
languageProficiency.setDisplayName("Norwegian Bokmål");
languageProficiency.setTag("nb-NO");
languageProficiency.setSpoken(LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual);
languageProficiency.setWritten(LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual);
languageProficiency.setReading(LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual);
LanguageProficiency result = graphClient.me().profile().languages().post(languageProficiency);

Important

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 languageProficiency = {
  displayName: 'Norwegian Bokmål',
  tag: 'nb-NO',
  spoken: 'nativeOrBilingual',
  written: 'nativeOrBilingual',
  reading: 'nativeOrBilingual'
};

await client.api('/me/profile/languages')
	.version('beta')
	.post(languageProficiency);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\LanguageProficiency;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\LanguageProficiencyLevel;


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

$requestBody = new LanguageProficiency();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Norwegian Bokmål');
$requestBody->setTag('nb-NO');
$requestBody->setSpoken(new LanguageProficiencyLevel('nativeOrBilingual'));
$requestBody->setWritten(new LanguageProficiencyLevel('nativeOrBilingual'));
$requestBody->setReading(new LanguageProficiencyLevel('nativeOrBilingual'));

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

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.People

$params = @{
	displayName = "Norwegian Bokmål"
	tag = "nb-NO"
	spoken = "nativeOrBilingual"
	written = "nativeOrBilingual"
	reading = "nativeOrBilingual"
}

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

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.language_proficiency import LanguageProficiency
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.language_proficiency_level import LanguageProficiencyLevel
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = LanguageProficiency(
	display_name = "Norwegian Bokmål",
	tag = "nb-NO",
	spoken = LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual,
	written = LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual,
	reading = LanguageProficiencyLevel.NativeOrBilingual,
)

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

Important

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

{
  "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"
    }
  },
  "source": null,
  "displayName": "Norwegian Bokmål",
  "tag": "nb-NO",
  "spoken": "nativeOrBilingual",
  "written": "nativeOrBilingual",
  "reading": "nativeOrBilingual"
}

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