Update case

2025-07-23

Namespace: microsoft.graph.ediscovery

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 a case object.

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)	eDiscovery.Read.All	eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	eDiscovery.Read.All	eDiscovery.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

PATCH /compliance/ediscovery/cases/{id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
description	String	The case description.
displayName	String	The case name.
externalId	String	The external case number for customer reference.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated microsoft.graph.ediscovery.case object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/compliance/ediscovery/cases/061b9a92-8926-4bd9-b41d-abf35edc7583
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "My Case 1 - Renamed",
  "description": "Updated description",
  "externalId": "Updated externalId"
}


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

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

var requestBody = new Case
{
	DisplayName = "My Case 1 - Renamed",
	Description = "Updated description",
	ExternalId = "Updated externalId",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Compliance.Ediscovery.Cases["{case-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"
	  graphmodelsediscovery "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models/ediscovery"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodelsediscovery.NewCase()
displayName := "My Case 1 - Renamed"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Updated description"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
externalId := "Updated externalId"
requestBody.SetExternalId(&externalId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
cases, err := graphClient.Compliance().Ediscovery().Cases().ByCaseId("case-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);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ediscovery.CaseEscaped caseEscaped = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.models.ediscovery.CaseEscaped();
caseEscaped.setDisplayName("My Case 1 - Renamed");
caseEscaped.setDescription("Updated description");
caseEscaped.setExternalId("Updated externalId");
com.microsoft.graph.models.ediscovery.Case result = graphClient.compliance().ediscovery().cases().byCaseId("{case-id}").patch(caseEscaped);

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 _case = {
  displayName: 'My Case 1 - Renamed',
  description: 'Updated description',
  externalId: 'Updated externalId'
};

await client.api('/compliance/ediscovery/cases/061b9a92-8926-4bd9-b41d-abf35edc7583')
	.version('beta')
	.update(_case);

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\Ediscovery\Case;


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

$requestBody = new EscapedCase();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My Case 1 - Renamed');
$requestBody->setDescription('Updated description');
$requestBody->setExternalId('Updated externalId');

$result = $graphServiceClient->compliance()->ediscovery()->cases()->byCaseId('case-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Compliance

$params = @{
	displayName = "My Case 1 - Renamed"
	description = "Updated description"
	externalId = "Updated externalId"
}

Update-MgBetaComplianceEdiscoveryCase -CaseId $caseId -BodyParameter $params

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.ediscovery.case import Case
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Case(
	display_name = "My Case 1 - Renamed",
	description = "Updated description",
	external_id = "Updated externalId",
)

result = await graph_client.compliance.ediscovery.cases.by_case_id('case-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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