Getting Started with Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Teams

Key Takeaways

everybody Jeremy here I'm here with Nick today hi Jeremy where I could be talking about the team's api's today why would a developer want to use the team's API on Mike's of 365 yeah so the team's API is allow you to create new teams and add channels to those teams add members to the teams change settings and the teams add tabs into those channels that you've created and then when you're done with a team you have a you have a fully functioning team and then when the team has run its lifecycle you can then archive or delete that team so what are some of the robots and ours you see customers using the API for that kind of functionality yeah there's a couple different things that people build with this first thing is they they bulk provision teams they have 10,000 teams that need to create say one for each class at the start of a semester and so they just spit out 10,000 teams another thing they do is they create temporary teams so for instance if you're an airline and you want to fly a flight everyday and have a team for each flight you fly you can at the stroke of midnight create the teams for the next day and the third thing that people do a lot is admin tools they just administer their their teams so the powershell commandlets that teams has are built on this and the modern portal for admins is also built on the graph api so that's nice so what's the best way for a developer to get started with the team's API yeah yeah let me show you a quick demo here so this is our control so Airlines at the stroke of midnight they create a new team so a couple steps to this first is just figure out who you want to be in the team otherwise it's not a very interesting team once you have those lists of user IDs you can then create a group by posting to slash groups passing in that information we gathered and the group is really the thing that holds it all together every every team belongs inside a group because the group also provides things like the files the the SharePoint files and all the other goodness you get from graph then once we have that group we do an HTTP put two slash groups slash group ID slash team and create the team with the settings we want and we see flight 157 has appeared over here stash way that team ID because we'll need it will next create a channel by posting to slash teams slash team ID we just saved away slash channels passing a name and description of the channel we want to create we will get a pilot's Channel in just a moment pilots and let's add a tab to it let's add a map tab that will show us what the airport is that we're going to land at so we'll post to slash teams ID channel's ID tabs and we'll say it's gonna be a website tab that points to a map given a moment to propagate over here looks got make sure you in the right channel first here's our map like every night listen what's an example of another tab that you could add into this channel yeah you can do really all the tabs of the team support so Word documents Excel PowerPoint but also on my favorites is SharePoint lists so I'll show you an example of that we can create a list of challenging passengers for this flight by first we get the site object there and then we can create a raw list itself post slash sites /id slash lists pass in some column definitions also add now that we have a empty list we need to add some challenging passengers to a challenging passenger list and then we have to create a new tab for it to display it so again post slash team's ID channel's ID tabs and when we do that we'll have a SharePoint list that's rendered inside teams here we have a challenging passengers list the challenging a passenger turns out to be me because I snore on planes when I fall asleep that's why you have noise canceling headphones rights right well I have to have one for all the neighbors well look I hope everyone is watching this sees how powerful the team's API can be on the Microsoft graph so please go check that out and graft on Microsoft calm and thanks Nick thanks Jeremy