Create contentActivity

2025-05-15

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.

Create a content activity for the signed-in user.

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)	ContentActivity.Write	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ContentActivity.Write	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/dataSecurityAndGovernance/activities/contentActivities

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 contentActivity object.

Response

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

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/dataSecurityAndGovernance/activities/contentActivities
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "contentMetadata": {
       "contentEntries": [
          {
             "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata",
             "identifier": "d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8",
             "name":"CA Purview API Explorer message",
             "correlationId": "edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e",
             "sequenceNumber": 0, 
             "isTruncated": false,
             "createdDateTime": "2025-05-28T20:20:37",
             "modifiedDateTime": "2025-05-28T20:20:37"
          }
       ],
       "activityMetadata": { 
          "activity": "downloadText"
       },
       "deviceMetadata": {
          "operatingSystemSpecifications": {
             "operatingSystemPlatform": "Windows 11",
             "operatingSystemVersion": "10.0.26100.0" 
          }
       },
       "integratedAppMetadata": {
          "name": "CA Purview API Explorer",
          "version": "0.1" 
       },
       "userId":"7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80",
       "scopeIdentifier":"0"
    }
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;
using Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions.Serialization;

var requestBody = new ContentActivity
{
	ContentMetadata = new ProcessContentRequest
	{
		ContentEntries = new List<ProcessContentMetadataBase>
		{
			new ProcessConversationMetadata
			{
				OdataType = "microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata",
				Identifier = "d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8",
				Name = "CA Purview API Explorer message",
				CorrelationId = "edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e",
				SequenceNumber = 0L,
				IsTruncated = false,
				CreatedDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2025-05-28T20:20:37"),
				ModifiedDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2025-05-28T20:20:37"),
			},
		},
		ActivityMetadata = new ActivityMetadata
		{
			Activity = UserActivityType.DownloadText,
		},
		IntegratedAppMetadata = new IntegratedApplicationMetadata
		{
			Name = "CA Purview API Explorer",
			Version = "0.1",
		},
		AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
		{
			{
				"deviceMetadata" , new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
				{
					{
						"operatingSystemSpecifications", new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
						{
							{
								"operatingSystemPlatform", new UntypedString("Windows 11")
							},
							{
								"operatingSystemVersion", new UntypedString("10.0.26100.0")
							},
						})
					},
				})
			},
			{
				"userId" , "7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80"
			},
			{
				"scopeIdentifier" , "0"
			},
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.DataSecurityAndGovernance.Activities.ContentActivities.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 data-security-and-governance activities content-activities create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
    "contentMetadata": {\
       "contentEntries": [\
          {\
             "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata",\
             "identifier": "d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8",\
             "name":"CA Purview API Explorer message",\
             "correlationId": "edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e",\
             "sequenceNumber": 0, \
             "isTruncated": false,\
             "createdDateTime": "2025-05-28T20:20:37",\
             "modifiedDateTime": "2025-05-28T20:20:37"\
          }\
       ],\
       "activityMetadata": { \
          "activity": "downloadText"\
       },\
       "deviceMetadata": {\
          "operatingSystemSpecifications": {\
             "operatingSystemPlatform": "Windows 11",\
             "operatingSystemVersion": "10.0.26100.0" \
          }\
       },\
       "integratedAppMetadata": {\
          "name": "CA Purview API Explorer",\
          "version": "0.1" \
       },\
       "userId":"7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80",\
       "scopeIdentifier":"0"\
    }\
}\
'

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.NewContentActivity()
contentMetadata := graphmodels.NewProcessContentRequest()


processContentMetadataBase := graphmodels.NewProcessConversationMetadata()
identifier := "d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8"
processContentMetadataBase.SetIdentifier(&identifier) 
name := "CA Purview API Explorer message"
processContentMetadataBase.SetName(&name) 
correlationId := "edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e"
processContentMetadataBase.SetCorrelationId(&correlationId) 
sequenceNumber := int64(0)
processContentMetadataBase.SetSequenceNumber(&sequenceNumber) 
isTruncated := false
processContentMetadataBase.SetIsTruncated(&isTruncated) 
createdDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2025-05-28T20:20:37")
processContentMetadataBase.SetCreatedDateTime(&createdDateTime) 
modifiedDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2025-05-28T20:20:37")
processContentMetadataBase.SetModifiedDateTime(&modifiedDateTime) 

contentEntries := []graphmodels.ProcessContentMetadataBaseable {
	processContentMetadataBase,
}
contentMetadata.SetContentEntries(contentEntries)
activityMetadata := graphmodels.NewActivityMetadata()
activity := graphmodels.DOWNLOADTEXT_USERACTIVITYTYPE 
activityMetadata.SetActivity(&activity) 
contentMetadata.SetActivityMetadata(activityMetadata)
integratedAppMetadata := graphmodels.NewIntegratedApplicationMetadata()
name := "CA Purview API Explorer"
integratedAppMetadata.SetName(&name) 
version := "0.1"
integratedAppMetadata.SetVersion(&version) 
contentMetadata.SetIntegratedAppMetadata(integratedAppMetadata)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
deviceMetadata := graph.New()
operatingSystemSpecifications := graph.New()
operatingSystemPlatform := "Windows 11"
operatingSystemSpecifications.SetOperatingSystemPlatform(&operatingSystemPlatform) 
operatingSystemVersion := "10.0.26100.0"
operatingSystemSpecifications.SetOperatingSystemVersion(&operatingSystemVersion) 
	deviceMetadata.SetOperatingSystemSpecifications(operatingSystemSpecifications)
	contentMetadata.SetDeviceMetadata(deviceMetadata)
	"userId" : "7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80", 
	"scopeIdentifier" : "0", 
}
contentMetadata.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)
requestBody.SetContentMetadata(contentMetadata)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
contentActivities, err := graphClient.Me().DataSecurityAndGovernance().Activities().ContentActivities().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);

ContentActivity contentActivity = new ContentActivity();
ProcessContentRequest contentMetadata = new ProcessContentRequest();
LinkedList<ProcessContentMetadataBase> contentEntries = new LinkedList<ProcessContentMetadataBase>();
ProcessConversationMetadata processContentMetadataBase = new ProcessConversationMetadata();
processContentMetadataBase.setOdataType("microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata");
processContentMetadataBase.setIdentifier("d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8");
processContentMetadataBase.setName("CA Purview API Explorer message");
processContentMetadataBase.setCorrelationId("edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e");
processContentMetadataBase.setSequenceNumber(0L);
processContentMetadataBase.setIsTruncated(false);
OffsetDateTime createdDateTime = OffsetDateTime.parse("2025-05-28T20:20:37");
processContentMetadataBase.setCreatedDateTime(createdDateTime);
OffsetDateTime modifiedDateTime = OffsetDateTime.parse("2025-05-28T20:20:37");
processContentMetadataBase.setModifiedDateTime(modifiedDateTime);
contentEntries.add(processContentMetadataBase);
contentMetadata.setContentEntries(contentEntries);
ActivityMetadata activityMetadata = new ActivityMetadata();
activityMetadata.setActivity(UserActivityType.DownloadText);
contentMetadata.setActivityMetadata(activityMetadata);
IntegratedApplicationMetadata integratedAppMetadata = new IntegratedApplicationMetadata();
integratedAppMetadata.setName("CA Purview API Explorer");
integratedAppMetadata.setVersion("0.1");
contentMetadata.setIntegratedAppMetadata(integratedAppMetadata);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 deviceMetadata = new ();
 operatingSystemSpecifications = new ();
operatingSystemSpecifications.setOperatingSystemPlatform("Windows 11");
operatingSystemSpecifications.setOperatingSystemVersion("10.0.26100.0");
deviceMetadata.setOperatingSystemSpecifications(operatingSystemSpecifications);
additionalData.put("deviceMetadata", deviceMetadata);
additionalData.put("userId", "7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80");
additionalData.put("scopeIdentifier", "0");
contentMetadata.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
contentActivity.setContentMetadata(contentMetadata);
ContentActivity result = graphClient.me().dataSecurityAndGovernance().activities().contentActivities().post(contentActivity);

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 contentActivity = {
    contentMetadata: {
       contentEntries: [
          {
             '@odata.type': 'microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata',
             identifier: 'd6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8',
             name: 'CA Purview API Explorer message',
             correlationId: 'edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e',
             sequenceNumber: 0, 
             isTruncated: false,
             createdDateTime: '2025-05-28T20:20:37',
             modifiedDateTime: '2025-05-28T20:20:37'
          }
       ],
       activityMetadata: { 
          activity: 'downloadText'
       },
       deviceMetadata: {
          operatingSystemSpecifications: {
             operatingSystemPlatform: 'Windows 11',
             operatingSystemVersion: '10.0.26100.0' 
          }
       },
       integratedAppMetadata: {
          name: 'CA Purview API Explorer',
          version: '0.1' 
       },
       userId: '7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80',
       scopeIdentifier: '0'
    }
};

await client.api('/me/dataSecurityAndGovernance/activities/contentActivities')
	.version('beta')
	.post(contentActivity);

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\ContentActivity;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ProcessContentRequest;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ProcessContentMetadataBase;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ProcessConversationMetadata;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ActivityMetadata;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\UserActivityType;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\IntegratedApplicationMetadata;


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

$requestBody = new ContentActivity();
$contentMetadata = new ProcessContentRequest();
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1 = new ProcessConversationMetadata();
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setOdataType('microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata');
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setIdentifier('d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8');
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setName('CA Purview API Explorer message');
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setCorrelationId('edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e');
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setSequenceNumber(0);
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setIsTruncated(false);
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setCreatedDateTime(new \DateTime('2025-05-28T20:20:37'));
$contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1->setModifiedDateTime(new \DateTime('2025-05-28T20:20:37'));
$contentEntriesArray []= $contentEntriesProcessContentMetadataBase1;
$contentMetadata->setContentEntries($contentEntriesArray);

$contentMetadataActivityMetadata = new ActivityMetadata();
$contentMetadataActivityMetadata->setActivity(new UserActivityType('downloadText'));
$contentMetadata->setActivityMetadata($contentMetadataActivityMetadata);
$contentMetadataIntegratedAppMetadata = new IntegratedApplicationMetadata();
$contentMetadataIntegratedAppMetadata->setName('CA Purview API Explorer');
$contentMetadataIntegratedAppMetadata->setVersion('0.1');
$contentMetadata->setIntegratedAppMetadata($contentMetadataIntegratedAppMetadata);
$additionalData = [
'deviceMetadata' => [
	'operatingSystemSpecifications' => [
		'operatingSystemPlatform' => 'Windows 11',
		'operatingSystemVersion' => '10.0.26100.0',
	],
],
'userId' => '7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80',
'scopeIdentifier' => '0',
];
$contentMetadata->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$requestBody->setContentMetadata($contentMetadata);

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->dataSecurityAndGovernance()->activities()->contentActivities()->post($requestBody)->wait();

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.content_activity import ContentActivity
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.process_content_request import ProcessContentRequest
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.process_content_metadata_base import ProcessContentMetadataBase
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.process_conversation_metadata import ProcessConversationMetadata
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.activity_metadata import ActivityMetadata
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.user_activity_type import UserActivityType
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.integrated_application_metadata import IntegratedApplicationMetadata
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ContentActivity(
	content_metadata = ProcessContentRequest(
		content_entries = [
			ProcessConversationMetadata(
				odata_type = "microsoft.graph.processConversationMetadata",
				identifier = "d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8",
				name = "CA Purview API Explorer message",
				correlation_id = "edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e",
				sequence_number = 0,
				is_truncated = False,
				created_date_time = "2025-05-28T20:20:37",
				modified_date_time = "2025-05-28T20:20:37",
			),
		],
		activity_metadata = ActivityMetadata(
			activity = UserActivityType.DownloadText,
		),
		integrated_app_metadata = IntegratedApplicationMetadata(
			name = "CA Purview API Explorer",
			version = "0.1",
		),
		additional_data = {
				"device_metadata" : {
						"operating_system_specifications" : {
								"operating_system_platform" : "Windows 11",
								"operating_system_version" : "10.0.26100.0",
						},
				},
				"user_id" : "7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80",
				"scope_identifier" : "0",
		}
	),
)

result = await graph_client.me.data_security_and_governance.activities.content_activities.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

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80')/dataSecurityAndGovernance/activities/contentActivities/$entity",
  "id": "4c3d1219-b1af-442f-85b5-06b7ef1cf8c8",
  "userId": "7c497f10-cba8-4a8d-9449-db4b76d1ef80",
  "scopeIdentifier": null,
  "contentMetadata": {
    "protectedAppMetadata": null,
    "contentEntries": [
      {
        "identifier": "d6ab5054-e111-45c3-9fba-9f2a59c9bbf8",
        "content": null,
        "name": "CA Purview API Explorer message",
        "correlationId": "edfb7f88-b963-4ef2-8b30-5cb90f80e01e",
        "sequenceNumber": 0,
        "length": null,
        "isTruncated": false,
        "createdDateTime": "2025-05-28T20:20:37Z",
        "modifiedDateTime": "2025-05-28T20:20:37Z"
      }
    ],
    "activityMetadata": {
      "activity": "downloadText"
    },
    "deviceMetadata": {
      "deviceType": null,
      "operatingSystemSpecifications": {
        "operatingSystemPlatform": "Windows 11",
        "operatingSystemVersion": "10.0.26100.0"
      }
    },
    "integratedAppMetadata": {
      "name": "CA Purview API Explorer",
      "version": "0.1"
    }
  }
}

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