Upload files with postman

Provided you use ahead also for files to be shown to users in their personal section, here you will learn how to do a file upload for a user with postman. This guide assumes that you already had a look at how to get an api-key and use postman to upload a profile update.

Caution

When testing, bear in mind that you are testing against the real API. We recommend that you perform your initial tests with a test account created in MS Entra for this purpose, which you can delete after you have verified that everything works satisfactorily.

Choose the correct content-type

File uploads need to happen with the Content-Type set to multipart/form-data.

This is most easily done by setting up the body tab correctly. This will automatically set the correct Content-Type under the Headers-Tab.

Choose a file

Caution

Make sure you understand how the files need to be named.

Now you can choose a file to upload.

You could add additional files to repeating the file selection step in the next row.

Pressing “Send” starts the request and if all goes well, the response status code should be a merry 200.

Verifying the upload

Such a request will also show up in the import logs as a file upload:

2023-11-22T16:20:09 - RequestId: 1bed586b-ed0e-4780-ad06-e9f831ebd3af
Success - FileUploaded - Uploaded file 'November 2023.pdf' for 'joe@company.com'

And of course, our test subject joe should now see the new file under their personal space.