Update namedItem

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 namedItem 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)	Files.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.ReadWrite	Not available.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

PATCH /me/drive/items/{id}/workbook/names/{name}
PATCH /me/drive/root:/{item-path}:/workbook/names/{name}

Optional request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Workbook-Session-ID	Workbook session ID that determines if changes are persisted or not. Optional.

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 maintains their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that didn't change.

Property	Type	Description
visible	Boolean	Specifies whether the object is visible or not.
comment	string	Represents the comment associated with this name.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and updated workbookNamedItem object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/drive/items/{id}/workbook/names/{name}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "type": "type-value",
  "scope": "scope-value",
  "comment": "comment-value",
  "value": {
  },
  "visible": true
}


// 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 WorkbookNamedItem
{
	Type = "type-value",
	Scope = "scope-value",
	Comment = "comment-value",
	Value = new UntypedObject(new Dictionary<string, UntypedNode>
	{
	}),
	Visible = true,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Workbook.Names["{workbookNamedItem-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.NewWorkbookNamedItem()
type := "type-value"
requestBody.SetType(&type) 
scope := "scope-value"
requestBody.SetScope(&scope) 
comment := "comment-value"
requestBody.SetComment(&comment) 
value := graph.NewUntypedNode()
requestBody.SetValue(value)
visible := true
requestBody.SetVisible(&visible) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
names, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Workbook().Names().ByWorkbookNamedItemId("workbookNamedItem-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);

WorkbookNamedItem workbookNamedItem = new WorkbookNamedItem();
workbookNamedItem.setType("type-value");
workbookNamedItem.setScope("scope-value");
workbookNamedItem.setComment("comment-value");
UntypedNode value = new UntypedNode();
workbookNamedItem.setValue(value);
workbookNamedItem.setVisible(true);
WorkbookNamedItem result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").workbook().names().byWorkbookNamedItemId("{workbookNamedItem-id}").patch(workbookNamedItem);

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 workbookNamedItem = {
  type: 'type-value',
  scope: 'scope-value',
  comment: 'comment-value',
  value: {
  },
  visible: true
};

await client.api('/me/drive/items/{id}/workbook/names/{name}')
	.version('beta')
	.update(workbookNamedItem);

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\WorkbookNamedItem;


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

$requestBody = new WorkbookNamedItem();
$requestBody->setType('type-value');
$requestBody->setScope('scope-value');
$requestBody->setComment('comment-value');
$value = new UntypedNode();
$requestBody->setValue($value);
$requestBody->setVisible(true);

$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->workbook()->names()->byWorkbookNamedItemId('workbookNamedItem-id')->patch($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.workbook_named_item import WorkbookNamedItem
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = WorkbookNamedItem(
	type = "type-value",
	scope = "scope-value",
	comment = "comment-value",
	value = UntypedNode(
	),
	visible = True,
)

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').workbook.names.by_workbook_named_item_id('workbookNamedItem-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. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "name": "name-value",
  "type": "type-value",
  "value": {
  },
  "visible": true
}

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HTTP request

Optional request headers

Request body

Response

Example

Request

Response

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