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title Create column
description Create a column for a fileStorageContainer that specifies a columnDefinition.
author tonchan-msft
ms.localizationpriority medium
ms.subservice onedrive
doc_type apiPageType
ms.date 11/12/2025

Create column

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a column for a fileStorageContainer that specifies a columnDefinition.

[!INCLUDE national-cloud-support]

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.

[!INCLUDE permissions-table]

[!INCLUDE app-permissions]

HTTP request

POST /storage/fileStorage/containers/{containerId}/columns

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 columnDefinition object.

Only the following type-related properties are supported and they're mutually exclusive; a column can only have one of them specified at a time.

Property Type Description
Boolean booleanColumn This column stores Boolean values.
choice choiceColumn This column stores data from a list of choices.
currency currencyColumn This column stores currency values.
dateTime dateTimeColumn This column stores DateTime values.
hyperlinkOrPicture hyperlinkOrPictureColumn This column stores hyperlink or picture values.
number numberColumn This column stores number values.
personOrGroup personOrGroupColumn This column stores Person or Group values.
text textColumn This column stores text values.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/storage/fileStorage/containers/b!ISJs1WRro0y0EWgkUYcktDa0mE8zSlFEqFzqRn70Zwp1CEtDEBZgQICPkRbil_5Z/columns
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "description": "test",
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,
  "hidden": false,
  "indexed": false,
  "name": "Title",
  "text": {
    "allowMultipleLines": false,
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,
    "linesForEditing": 0,
    "maxLength": 255
  }
}

C#

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Go

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Java

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

JavaScript

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

PHP

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE sdk-documentation]

Python

[!INCLUDE sample-code] [!INCLUDE 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

{
  "description": "test",
  "displayName": "Title",
  "enforceUniqueValues": false,
  "hidden": false,
  "id": "99ddcf45-e2f7-4f17-82b0-6fba34445103",
  "indexed": false,
  "name": "Title",
  "text": {
    "allowMultipleLines": false,
    "appendChangesToExistingText": false,
    "linesForEditing": 0,
    "maxLength": 255
  }
}