Microsoft 365 : New Feature – Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint pages is now generally available

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Greetings for the day

Today new feature update related to Microsoft Graph.

New Feature : Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint pages is now generally available

Details

• The Microsoft Graph API for SharePoint pages is now generally available
• Graph API for SharePoint pages provides us tools to interact with SharePoint Pages and News posts
• These APIs includes following capabilities
  • Creating pages
  • Editing pages
  • Deleting pages
  • Listing pages
  • Getting page

New features incorporated

• Web part support for create & edit – 14 following webparts are supported for creating / editing pages

Text Web part	Image	Image Gallery	Button
Call to Action	Divider	Document embed	Link preview
Quick links	People	Bing maps	Spacer
YouTube embed	Org chart

Demo with Graph Explorer

• List all site pages from given site

GET /sites/{site-id}/pages

Output (showing for one page) : Note the properties it returns

{
            "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.sitePage",
            "@odata.etag": "\"{5ED26C19-9E78-494E-9A06-9F5CD1161ABF},10\"",
            "createdDateTime": "2023-08-10T03:41:38Z",
            "eTag": "\"{5ED26C19-9E78-494E-9A06-9F5CD1161ABF},10\"",
            "id": "5ed26c19-9e78-494e-9a06-9f5cd1161abf",
            "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-08-10T03:41:45Z",
            "name": "Testing-sharing-site.aspx",
            "webUrl": "https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Testing-sharing-site.aspx",
            "title": "Testing sharing site",
            "pageLayout": "article",
            "thumbnailWebUrl": "https://media.akamai.odsp.cdn.office.net/knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/images/sitepagethumbnail.png",
            "promotionKind": "newsPost",
            "showComments": true,
            "showRecommendedPages": false,
            "contentType": {
                "id": "0x0101009D1CB255DA76424F860D91F20E6C41180026B0C27E6CA4254D840A75710721FCCF",
                "name": "Site Page"
            },
            "createdBy": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Prasham Sabadra",
                    "email": "prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com"
                }
            },
            "lastModifiedBy": {
                "user": {
                    "displayName": "Prasham Sabadra",
                    "email": "prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com"
                }
            },
            "parentReference": {
                "siteId": "237c32a1-0683-4fbf-ae85-d0231608241e"
            },
            "publishingState": {
                "level": "published",
                "versionId": "1.0"
            },
            "reactions": {},
            "titleArea": {
                "enableGradientEffect": true,
                "imageWebUrl": "/_layouts/15/images/sleektemplateimagetile.jpg",
                "layout": "overlap",
                "showAuthor": true,
                "showPublishedDate": false,
                "showTextBlockAboveTitle": false,
                "textAboveTitle": "",
                "textAlignment": "left",
                "imageSourceType": 2,
                "title": "Testing sharing site",
                "authorByline@odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
                "authorByline": [
                    "i:0#.f|membership|prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com"
                ],
                "titlePlaceholder": "Name your news post",
                "isDecorative": true,
                "hasTitleBeenCommitted": true,
                "authors@odata.type": "#Collection(microsoft.graph.Json)",
                "authors": [
                    {
                        "id": "i:0#.f|membership|prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com",
                        "upn": "prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com",
                        "email": "prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com",
                        "name": "Prasham Sabadra",
                        "role": "Architect"
                    }
                ],
                "serverProcessedContent": {
                    "htmlStrings": [],
                    "searchablePlainTexts": [],
                    "links": [],
                    "imageSources": [
                        {
                            "key": "imageSource",
                            "value": "/_layouts/15/images/sleektemplateimagetile.jpg"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        }

Permissions required to work with pages

• Sites.Read.All – least privileged permission

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID – 101166

REFERENCES

• sitePage resource type – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/sitepage?view=graph-rest-1.0
• Open issues and provide feedback in SharePoint Pages Graph API issues list.

In next article we will try CRUD operations using Graph Explorer.

Thanks for reading ! HAPPY LEARNING ! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂