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
Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Files.ReadWrite
Files.ReadWrite.All
Application
Files.ReadWrite.All
Sites.ReadWrite.All
HTTP request
POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /me/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the DriveItem resource to create.
Response
If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and a Driveitem resource in the response body.
Example
Request
The following example shows a request to create a new folder in the signed-in user's OneDrive root folder.
The @microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior property used indicates that if an item already exists with the same name, the service should choose a new name for the folder while creating it.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive/root/children
Content-Type: application/json
{
"name": "New Folder",
"folder": { },
"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new DriveItem
{
Name = "New Folder",
Folder = new Folder
{
},
AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{
"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" , "rename"
},
},
};
// 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}"].Children.PostAsync(requestBody);
// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc drives items children create --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id} --body '{\
"name": "New Folder",\
"folder": { },\
"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"\
}\
'
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
DriveItem driveItem = new DriveItem();
driveItem.setName("New Folder");
Folder folder = new Folder();
driveItem.setFolder(folder);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior", "rename");
driveItem.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
DriveItem result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").children().post(driveItem);
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