Update community

2025-07-23

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.

Update the properties of an existing Viva Engage community.

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

HTTP request

PATCH /employeeExperience/communities/{communityId}

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 only the values for properties to update. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values.

The following table specifies the properties that can be updated.

Property	Type	Description
description	String	The description of the community. Maximum length is 1024 characters.
displayName	String	The name of the community. Maximum length is 255 characters.
privacy	communityPrivacy	Defines the privacy level of the community. The possible values are: `public`, `private`, `unknownFutureValue`.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 204 No Content response code.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/employeeExperience/communities/eyJfdHlwZSI6Ikdyb3VwIiwiaWQiOiI4MzIxMjc1In0
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Financial Advice for Software Engineers",
  "description": "A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients.",
  "privacy": "public"
}


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

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

var requestBody = new Community
{
	DisplayName = "Financial Advice for Software Engineers",
	Description = "A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients.",
	Privacy = CommunityPrivacy.Public,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.EmployeeExperience.Communities["{community-id}"].PatchAsync(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.



// 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.NewCommunity()
displayName := "Financial Advice for Software Engineers"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients."
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
privacy := graphmodels.PUBLIC_COMMUNITYPRIVACY 
requestBody.SetPrivacy(&privacy) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
communities, err := graphClient.EmployeeExperience().Communities().ByCommunityId("community-id").Patch(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);

Community community = new Community();
community.setDisplayName("Financial Advice for Software Engineers");
community.setDescription("A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients.");
community.setPrivacy(CommunityPrivacy.Public);
Community result = graphClient.employeeExperience().communities().byCommunityId("{community-id}").patch(community);

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 community = {
  displayName: 'Financial Advice for Software Engineers',
  description: 'A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients.',
  privacy: 'public'
};

await client.api('/employeeExperience/communities/eyJfdHlwZSI6Ikdyb3VwIiwiaWQiOiI4MzIxMjc1In0')
	.version('beta')
	.update(community);

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\Community;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\CommunityPrivacy;


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

$requestBody = new Community();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Financial Advice for Software Engineers');
$requestBody->setDescription('A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients.');
$requestBody->setPrivacy(new CommunityPrivacy('public'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->employeeExperience()->communities()->byCommunityId('community-id')->patch($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.community import Community
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.community_privacy import CommunityPrivacy
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Community(
	display_name = "Financial Advice for Software Engineers",
	description = "A community where financial advisors who represent customers from software engineering profession can discuss advice and suggestions for their clients.",
	privacy = CommunityPrivacy.Public,
)

result = await graph_client.employee_experience.communities.by_community_id('community-id').patch(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.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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