Create shift

Article
10/27/2023

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new shift instance in a schedule.

The duration of a shift cannot be less than 1 minute or longer than 24 hours.

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

HTTP request

POST /teams/{teamId}/schedule/shifts

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.
MS-APP-ACTS-AS	A user ID (GUID). Required only if the authorization token is an application token; otherwise, optional.

Response

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

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/{teamId}/schedule/shifts
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8",
  "userId": "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1",
  "schedulingGroupId": "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0",
  "sharedShift": {
    "displayName": "Day shift",
    "notes": "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
    "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
    "endDateTime": "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",
    "theme": "blue",
    "activities": [
      {
        "isPaid": true,
        "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
        "endDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:15:00Z",
        "code": "",
        "displayName": "Lunch"
      }
    ]
  },
  "draftShift": {
    "displayName": "Day shift",
    "notes": "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
    "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
    "endDateTime": "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",
    "theme": "blue",
    "activities": [
      {
        "isPaid": true,
        "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
        "endDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:30:00Z",
        "code": "",
        "displayName": "Lunch"
      }
    ]
  }
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Shift
{
	Id = "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8",
	UserId = "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1",
	SchedulingGroupId = "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0",
	SharedShift = new ShiftItem
	{
		DisplayName = "Day shift",
		Notes = "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
		StartDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z"),
		EndDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-12T00:00:00Z"),
		Theme = ScheduleEntityTheme.Blue,
		Activities = new List<ShiftActivity>
		{
			new ShiftActivity
			{
				IsPaid = true,
				StartDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z"),
				EndDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-11T15:15:00Z"),
				Code = "",
				DisplayName = "Lunch",
			},
		},
	},
	DraftShift = new ShiftItem
	{
		DisplayName = "Day shift",
		Notes = "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
		StartDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z"),
		EndDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-12T00:00:00Z"),
		Theme = ScheduleEntityTheme.Blue,
		Activities = new List<ShiftActivity>
		{
			new ShiftActivity
			{
				IsPaid = true,
				StartDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z"),
				EndDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2019-03-11T15:30:00Z"),
				Code = "",
				DisplayName = "Lunch",
			},
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Schedule.Shifts.PostAsync(requestBody);

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



mgc teams schedule shifts create --team-id {team-id} --body '{\
  "id": "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8",\
  "userId": "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1",\
  "schedulingGroupId": "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0",\
  "sharedShift": {\
    "displayName": "Day shift",\
    "notes": "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",\
    "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",\
    "endDateTime": "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",\
    "theme": "blue",\
    "activities": [\
      {\
        "isPaid": true,\
        "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",\
        "endDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:15:00Z",\
        "code": "",\
        "displayName": "Lunch"\
      }\
    ]\
  },\
  "draftShift": {\
    "displayName": "Day shift",\
    "notes": "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",\
    "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",\
    "endDateTime": "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",\
    "theme": "blue",\
    "activities": [\
      {\
        "isPaid": true,\
        "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",\
        "endDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:30:00Z",\
        "code": "",\
        "displayName": "Lunch"\
      }\
    ]\
  }\
}\
'

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewShift()
id := "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8"
requestBody.SetId(&id) 
userId := "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1"
requestBody.SetUserId(&userId) 
schedulingGroupId := "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0"
requestBody.SetSchedulingGroupId(&schedulingGroupId) 
sharedShift := graphmodels.NewShiftItem()
displayName := "Day shift"
sharedShift.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
notes := "Please do inventory as part of your shift."
sharedShift.SetNotes(&notes) 
startDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
sharedShift.SetStartDateTime(&startDateTime) 
endDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z")
sharedShift.SetEndDateTime(&endDateTime) 
theme := graphmodels.BLUE_SCHEDULEENTITYTHEME 
sharedShift.SetTheme(&theme) 


shiftActivity := graphmodels.NewShiftActivity()
isPaid := true
shiftActivity.SetIsPaid(&isPaid) 
startDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
shiftActivity.SetStartDateTime(&startDateTime) 
endDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-11T15:15:00Z")
shiftActivity.SetEndDateTime(&endDateTime) 
code := ""
shiftActivity.SetCode(&code) 
displayName := "Lunch"
shiftActivity.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

activities := []graphmodels.ShiftActivityable {
	shiftActivity,
}
sharedShift.SetActivities(activities)
requestBody.SetSharedShift(sharedShift)
draftShift := graphmodels.NewShiftItem()
displayName := "Day shift"
draftShift.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
notes := "Please do inventory as part of your shift."
draftShift.SetNotes(&notes) 
startDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
draftShift.SetStartDateTime(&startDateTime) 
endDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z")
draftShift.SetEndDateTime(&endDateTime) 
theme := graphmodels.BLUE_SCHEDULEENTITYTHEME 
draftShift.SetTheme(&theme) 


shiftActivity := graphmodels.NewShiftActivity()
isPaid := true
shiftActivity.SetIsPaid(&isPaid) 
startDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
shiftActivity.SetStartDateTime(&startDateTime) 
endDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2019-03-11T15:30:00Z")
shiftActivity.SetEndDateTime(&endDateTime) 
code := ""
shiftActivity.SetCode(&code) 
displayName := "Lunch"
shiftActivity.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

activities := []graphmodels.ShiftActivityable {
	shiftActivity,
}
draftShift.SetActivities(activities)
requestBody.SetDraftShift(draftShift)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
shifts, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Schedule().Shifts().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.


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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Shift shift = new Shift();
shift.setId("SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8");
shift.setUserId("c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1");
shift.setSchedulingGroupId("TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0");
ShiftItem sharedShift = new ShiftItem();
sharedShift.setDisplayName("Day shift");
sharedShift.setNotes("Please do inventory as part of your shift.");
OffsetDateTime startDateTime = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z");
sharedShift.setStartDateTime(startDateTime);
OffsetDateTime endDateTime = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-12T00:00:00Z");
sharedShift.setEndDateTime(endDateTime);
sharedShift.setTheme(ScheduleEntityTheme.Blue);
LinkedList<ShiftActivity> activities = new LinkedList<ShiftActivity>();
ShiftActivity shiftActivity = new ShiftActivity();
shiftActivity.setIsPaid(true);
OffsetDateTime startDateTime1 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z");
shiftActivity.setStartDateTime(startDateTime1);
OffsetDateTime endDateTime1 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-11T15:15:00Z");
shiftActivity.setEndDateTime(endDateTime1);
shiftActivity.setCode("");
shiftActivity.setDisplayName("Lunch");
activities.add(shiftActivity);
sharedShift.setActivities(activities);
shift.setSharedShift(sharedShift);
ShiftItem draftShift = new ShiftItem();
draftShift.setDisplayName("Day shift");
draftShift.setNotes("Please do inventory as part of your shift.");
OffsetDateTime startDateTime2 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z");
draftShift.setStartDateTime(startDateTime2);
OffsetDateTime endDateTime2 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-12T00:00:00Z");
draftShift.setEndDateTime(endDateTime2);
draftShift.setTheme(ScheduleEntityTheme.Blue);
LinkedList<ShiftActivity> activities1 = new LinkedList<ShiftActivity>();
ShiftActivity shiftActivity1 = new ShiftActivity();
shiftActivity1.setIsPaid(true);
OffsetDateTime startDateTime3 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z");
shiftActivity1.setStartDateTime(startDateTime3);
OffsetDateTime endDateTime3 = OffsetDateTime.parse("2019-03-11T15:30:00Z");
shiftActivity1.setEndDateTime(endDateTime3);
shiftActivity1.setCode("");
shiftActivity1.setDisplayName("Lunch");
activities1.add(shiftActivity1);
draftShift.setActivities(activities1);
shift.setDraftShift(draftShift);
Shift result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").schedule().shifts().post(shift);

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 shift = {
  id: 'SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8',
  userId: 'c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1',
  schedulingGroupId: 'TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0',
  sharedShift: {
    displayName: 'Day shift',
    notes: 'Please do inventory as part of your shift.',
    startDateTime: '2019-03-11T15:00:00Z',
    endDateTime: '2019-03-12T00:00:00Z',
    theme: 'blue',
    activities: [
      {
        isPaid: true,
        startDateTime: '2019-03-11T15:00:00Z',
        endDateTime: '2019-03-11T15:15:00Z',
        code: '',
        displayName: 'Lunch'
      }
    ]
  },
  draftShift: {
    displayName: 'Day shift',
    notes: 'Please do inventory as part of your shift.',
    startDateTime: '2019-03-11T15:00:00Z',
    endDateTime: '2019-03-12T00:00:00Z',
    theme: 'blue',
    activities: [
      {
        isPaid: true,
        startDateTime: '2019-03-11T15:00:00Z',
        endDateTime: '2019-03-11T15:30:00Z',
        code: '',
        displayName: 'Lunch'
      }
    ]
  }
};

await client.api('/teams/{teamId}/schedule/shifts')
	.post(shift);

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\Models\Shift;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ShiftItem;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ScheduleEntityTheme;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ShiftActivity;


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

$requestBody = new Shift();
$requestBody->setId('SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8');
$requestBody->setUserId('c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1');
$requestBody->setSchedulingGroupId('TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0');
$sharedShift = new ShiftItem();
$sharedShift->setDisplayName('Day shift');
$sharedShift->setNotes('Please do inventory as part of your shift.');
$sharedShift->setStartDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-11T15:00:00Z'));
$sharedShift->setEndDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-12T00:00:00Z'));
$sharedShift->setTheme(new ScheduleEntityTheme('blue'));
$activitiesShiftActivity1 = new ShiftActivity();
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setIsPaid(true);
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setStartDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-11T15:00:00Z'));
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setEndDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-11T15:15:00Z'));
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setCode('');
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setDisplayName('Lunch');
$activitiesArray []= $activitiesShiftActivity1;
$sharedShift->setActivities($activitiesArray);

$requestBody->setSharedShift($sharedShift);
$draftShift = new ShiftItem();
$draftShift->setDisplayName('Day shift');
$draftShift->setNotes('Please do inventory as part of your shift.');
$draftShift->setStartDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-11T15:00:00Z'));
$draftShift->setEndDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-12T00:00:00Z'));
$draftShift->setTheme(new ScheduleEntityTheme('blue'));
$activitiesShiftActivity1 = new ShiftActivity();
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setIsPaid(true);
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setStartDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-11T15:00:00Z'));
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setEndDateTime(new \DateTime('2019-03-11T15:30:00Z'));
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setCode('');
$activitiesShiftActivity1->setDisplayName('Lunch');
$activitiesArray []= $activitiesShiftActivity1;
$draftShift->setActivities($activitiesArray);

$requestBody->setDraftShift($draftShift);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->schedule()->shifts()->post($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.Teams

$params = @{
	id = "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8"
	userId = "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1"
	schedulingGroupId = "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0"
	sharedShift = @{
		displayName = "Day shift"
		notes = "Please do inventory as part of your shift."
		startDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
		endDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-12T00:00:00Z")
		theme = "blue"
		activities = @(
			@{
				isPaid = $true
				startDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
				endDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-11T15:15:00Z")
				code = ""
				displayName = "Lunch"
			}
		)
	}
	draftShift = @{
		displayName = "Day shift"
		notes = "Please do inventory as part of your shift."
		startDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
		endDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-12T00:00:00Z")
		theme = "blue"
		activities = @(
			@{
				isPaid = $true
				startDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-11T15:00:00Z")
				endDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2019-03-11T15:30:00Z")
				code = ""
				displayName = "Lunch"
			}
		)
	}
}

New-MgTeamScheduleShift -TeamId $teamId -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.models.shift import Shift
from msgraph.generated.models.shift_item import ShiftItem
from msgraph.generated.models.schedule_entity_theme import ScheduleEntityTheme
from msgraph.generated.models.shift_activity import ShiftActivity
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Shift(
	id = "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8",
	user_id = "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1",
	scheduling_group_id = "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0",
	shared_shift = ShiftItem(
		display_name = "Day shift",
		notes = "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
		start_date_time = "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
		end_date_time = "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",
		theme = ScheduleEntityTheme.Blue,
		activities = [
			ShiftActivity(
				is_paid = True,
				start_date_time = "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
				end_date_time = "2019-03-11T15:15:00Z",
				code = "",
				display_name = "Lunch",
			),
		],
	),
	draft_shift = ShiftItem(
		display_name = "Day shift",
		notes = "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
		start_date_time = "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
		end_date_time = "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",
		theme = ScheduleEntityTheme.Blue,
		activities = [
			ShiftActivity(
				is_paid = True,
				start_date_time = "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
				end_date_time = "2019-03-11T15:30:00Z",
				code = "",
				display_name = "Lunch",
			),
		],
	),
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').schedule.shifts.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

{
  "id": "SHFT_577b75d2-a927-48c0-a5d1-dc984894e7b8",
  "createdDateTime": "2019-03-14T04:32:51.451Z",
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2019-03-14T05:32:51.451Z",
  "userId": "c5d0c76b-80c4-481c-be50-923cd8d680a1",
  "schedulingGroupId": "TAG_228940ed-ff84-4e25-b129-1b395cf78be0",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "application": null,
    "device": null,
    "conversation": null,
    "user": {
      "id": "366c0b19-49b1-41b5-a03f-9f3887bd0ed8",
      "displayName": "John Doe"
    }
  },
  "sharedShift": {
    "displayName": "Day shift",
    "notes": "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
    "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
    "endDateTime": "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",
    "theme": "blue",
    "activities": [
      {
        "isPaid": true,
        "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
        "endDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:15:00Z",
        "code": "",
        "displayName": "Lunch"
      }
    ]
  },
  "draftShift": {
    "displayName": "Day shift",
    "notes": "Please do inventory as part of your shift.",
    "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
    "endDateTime": "2019-03-12T00:00:00Z",
    "theme": "blue",
    "activities": [
      {
        "isPaid": true,
        "startDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:00:00Z",
        "endDateTime": "2019-03-11T15:30:00Z",
        "code": "",
        "displayName": "Lunch"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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