Permission resource type

Namespace: microsoft.graph

The Permission resource provides information about a sharing permission granted for a DriveItem resource.

Sharing permissions have many different forms. The permission resource represents these different forms through facets on the resource.

OneDrive for Business and SharePoint document libraries don't return the inheritedFrom property. grantedTo and grantedToIdentities are deprecated going forward and the response will be migrated to grantedToV2 and grantedToIdentitiesV2 respectively under appropriate property names.

JSON representation

The following JSON representation shows the resource type.

{
  "id": "string (identifier)",
  "grantedTo": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.identitySet"},
  "grantedToIdentities": [{"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.identitySet"}],
  "grantedToV2": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.sharePointIdentitySet"},
  "grantedToIdentitiesV2": [{"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.sharePointIdentitySet"}],
  "inheritedFrom": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.itemReference"},
  "invitation": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.sharingInvitation"},
  "link": {"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.sharingLink"},
  "roles": ["string"],
  "shareId": "string",
  "expirationDateTime": "string (timestamp)",
  "hasPassword": "boolean"
}

Properties

The permission resource uses facets to provide information about the kind of permission represented by the resource.

Permissions with a link facet represent sharing links created on the item. Sharing links contain a unique token that provides access to the item for anyone with the link.

Permissions with an invitation facet represent permissions added by inviting specific users or groups to have access to the file.

Roles property values

Sharing links

The most common type of permissions is sharing links. Sharing links provide a unique URL that includes both the resource being shared and an authentication token that provides access to the resource. Users don't need to sign-in to access the content shared with a sharing link. Users can share a link that gives read-only access to the content or writable access to the content.

View Link

A view link provides read-only access to an item.

{
  "id": "1",
  "roles": ["read"],
  "link": {
    "type": "view",
    "webUrl": "https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5D33DD65C6932946!70859&authkey=!AL7N1QAfSWcjNU8&ithint=folder%2cgif",
    "application": { "id": "1234", "displayName": "Sample Application" }
  },
  "shareId": "!LKj1lkdlals90j1nlkascl",
  "expirationDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Edit link

An edit link provides read and write access to an item.

{
  "id": "2",
  "roles": ["write"],
  "link": {
    "type": "edit",
    "webUrl": "https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5D33DD65C6932946!70859&authkey=!AL7N1QAfSWcjNU8&ithint=folder%2cgif",
    "application": { "id": "1234", "displayName": "Sample Application" }
  },
  "shareId": "!LKj1lkdlals90j1nlkascl",
  "expirationDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Specific people link

This link provides read and write access to the specific people in the grantedToIdentities collection.

{
  "id": "3",
  "grantedToIdentities": [
    {
       "user": {
        "id": "35fij1974gb8832",
        "displayName": "Misty Suarez"
      }
    },
    {
       "user": {
        "id": "9397721fh4hgh73",
        "displayName": "Judith Clemons"
      }
    }
  ],
  "grantedToIdentitiesV2": [
    {
       "user": {
        "id": "35fij1974gb8832",
        "displayName": "Misty Suarez"
      },
      "siteUser": {
        "id": "1",
        "displayName": "Misty Suarez",
        "loginName": "Misty Suarez"
      }
    },
    {
       "user": {
        "id": "9397721fh4hgh73",
        "displayName": "Judith Clemons"
      },
      "siteUser": {
        "id": "2",
        "displayName": "Judith Clemons",
        "loginName": "Judith Clemons"
      }
    }
  ],
  "roles": ["write"],
  "link": {
    "webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/design/a577ghg9hgh737613bmbjf839026561fmzhsr85ng9f3hjck2t5s",
    "application": { "id": "1234", "displayName": "Sample Application" }
  },
  "shareId": "!LKj1lkdlals90j1nlkascl",
  "expirationDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Existing access link

This link doesn't grant any extra privileges to the user.

{
  "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "roles": ["read"],
  "link": {
    "scope": "existingAccess",
    "type": "view",
    "webUrl": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/design/Shared%20Documents/SampleDoc.docx?d=w12345",
  },
  "expirationDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Sharing Invitation

In addition to creating sharing links, a user can be invited by e-mail address. In this scenario, the permission creates an invitation that is sent to the user's email.

Invitation to an email address

If the permission was sent via an email address to a recipient who doesn't have a matching account, the grantedTo property may not be set until the invitation is redeemed, which occurs the first time a user select the link and signs in.

{
  "id": "1",
  "roles": ["write"],
  "invitation": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "signInRequired": true
  },
  "shareId": "FWxc1lasfdbEAGM5fI7B67aB5ZMPDMmQ11U",
  "expirationDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

After the sharing invitation has been redeemed by a user, the grantedTo property will contain the information about the account that redeemed the permissions:

{
  "id": "1",
  "roles": ["write"],
  "grantedTo": {
    "user": {
      "id": "5D33DD65C6932946",
      "displayName": "Robin Danielsen"
    }
  },
  "grantedToV2": {
    "user": {
      "id": "5D33DD65C6932946",
      "displayName": "Robin Danielsen"
    },
    "siteUser": {
      "id": "1",
      "displayName": "Robin Danielsen",
      "loginName": "Robin Danielsen"
    }
  },
  "invitation": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "signInRequired": true
  },
  "shareId": "FWxc1lasfdbEAGM5fI7B67aB5ZMPDMmQ11U",
  "expirationDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Methods