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I found myself in an unfortunate position of being unable to use SharePoint Designer to build workflows and thus am having to rebuild an approval workflow in JavaScript. I am using REST to insert a new task item but need to expand it to assign the task to all users in a group and make it so that whoever in the group is the first to approve or reject the task will set the task status.

Do I simply need to replace the userId in AssignedToId: userId with groupId? Or would I use the REST API to GET a list of users (and their IDs) from the group name using url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/sitegroups/getbyname('" + strSPGroupName + "')/users" and then create an array of the user ids for use in this:

data: JSON.stringify({
    __metadata: { "type": "SP.Data.TasksListItem" },
    Title: "Sample Task",
    AssignedToId: { 'results': [11,22] },
    DueDate: due,
    Status: "In Progress"
})

I have my Task list AssignedTo column set to Allow Multiple Selections: Yes and Allow Selection Of: People and Groups

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You are missing the "__metadata" property from the "AssignedToId" object: Try this out:

data: JSON.stringify({
    __metadata: { "type": "SP.Data.TasksListItem" },
    Title: "Sample Task",
    AssignedToId: { "__metadata": { "type": "Collection(Edm.Int32)"},'results': [11,22] },
    DueDate: due,
    Status: "In Progress"
})
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  • Thanks for the clarification on the _metadata property. Any thoughts on how it would look if I wanted to assign a task to a group, rather than an individual? Commented Apr 29, 2019 at 13:49
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    It is the same method, replace the UserIds with GroupIds, the ids of groups and people are unique. Commented Apr 29, 2019 at 13:58

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