Create a Sharepoint list in a specific folder with Microsoft graph api

Question

Premise: I have a folder under the sharepoint site for e.g. https://... <mycompany-sharepoint-site.com>/ under which we have folder so my url is something like https://... <mycompany-sharepoint-site.com>/Documents/Sub_folder_1/Sub_folder_12 pertaining to our project.

I need to be able to create a Sharepoint list in the Sub_folder_2 - folder and not at the root level.

With Sharepoint - GraphApi - create list api url

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{site-id}/lists

I will ONLY be able to create at the <mycompany-sharepoint-site.com> level (i.e. at the root level) which is not what I want.

FYI, I already tried (on Postman) to go with the drives/<drive_id>/items/<folder_id> - route or I should say attempted to do so but failed.
I tried including the parentReference something like this
"parentReference": {
"driveType": "documentLibrary",
"driveId": "b....",
"path": "/drives/b.../root:/Sub_folder_1/Sub_folder_12"
}
Even with the above the list is created at the site - root ONLY and not under Sub_folder_1/Sub_folder_12.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hello @Shankar, Pankaja

Thanks for reaching out!

As per my understanding, creating a SharePoint list in a specific folder is not supported. Hence, it is not possible to achieve the same using Graph API.

Lists are stand-alone objects and cannot be nested within each other. Managing lists inside a folder is not supported. Currently, using Graph API you can create lists at a root level.

For creating a SharePoint list using graph API, please refer this documentation.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

I know how to create a Sharepoint list at the root of a site. The issue is anyone who has access to the site will have access to the lists. We wanted to create for our own groupdepartment in a specific folder, so there's at least some amount of separation, even if someone who has access to the site itself.

I cannot accept this answer as final, I am sure at some point Microsoft Graph Api folks will come up with a solution to create lists in a specific folder.