Graph - Update folder name using ItemId

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Graph - Update folder name using ItemId

Stan Verhoeckx 20

We've been using the MS Graph API for an implementation for Sharepoint with our software and now I'm trying to update the name of a folder using the ItemId of that folder but it doesn't work. This is an example folder structure we have:

ERPDocuments (this is the root folder)
-> Companies (this is a subfolder)
-->00011 - ITTER [7] (subfolder, the 7 between the brackets is the ID within our software)
So I want to target the subfolder with [7] in the name since this is our unique identifier to locate the folder. Getting the ItemId for this folder was already quite a hassle since a wildcard isn't allowed but I did manage a way to get the ItemId. Now for the actual update to rename this folder I use the PATCH function: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/b!289pD_30x0aEAv-RDCFNFZq3ZiwaYnBJg2FFJvroZPZRRKqSnuDsS4qAez4zkMI1/items/01NLWS7HMHQIN4PFS2NJG35S4VPVKTE6XP
Request body:

{ "name": "00011 - ITTER2 [7]" }

Now this request returns an error:

"error": { "code": "itemNotFound", "message": "The resource could not be found.", "innerError": { "date": "2023-04-20T09:46:58", "request-id": "4d20f430-6bee-403f-89b8-4ee1662eb5ab", "client-request-id": "dd0a39fa-747c-c55b-2389-7c0682ca6a61" } }

And it seems as if I can't update it cause the ItemId couldn't be found. If I get the ItemId of the Companies folder and then try to update the name, it does work. So does this mean I can only update a folder if it's within the root folder? How am I suppose to update a folder then if it's 3 levels deep?

According to the documentation(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_update?view=odsp-graph-online) I should be able to do PATCH /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}?

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RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Stan Verhoeckx , Per my test, I can update the folder name by PATCH /drives/{drive-id}/items/{item-id}. Here is the test result User's image

You will need to check the drive id and item id. First you need to get your site id by following api

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/Contoso.sharepoint.com:/sites/testsite?$select=id

And the highlight marked id is site id User's image

Then use the siteid check the drive id

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/siteid/drives

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Finally get the itemid by the api, and you can update folder name with drive id and item id now.

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drives/driveid/root/children

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Stan Verhoeckx 20 Reputation points

2023-04-21T07:43:38.87+00:00

I'll need to check if this works but my question first would be if that folder you're targetting is a nested folder? Cause it looks now your root folder is that Coding folder and you are just targetting a child from that folder to rename. So you did it like this: Coding -> subfolder.

My question is how to rename a folder that is several levels deep so: Coding -> subfolder -> subfolder -> targetfolder. Cause I need to get that itemid and update the name for it. Would I need to dive into each level, get the itemid for each subfolder and go to the correct level first before using the itemid of the targetfolder to rename it??
RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-04-25T06:44:24.7733333+00:00
Hi @Stan Verhoeckx , Per my test, We can get this api work in subfolder too. I tested in the path: Coding/117/test/targetfolder. Get the target folder id by following api

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drives/{drive-id}/root:/117/test:/children

And successfully renamed the target folder
Stan Verhoeckx 20 Reputation points

2023-04-25T09:33:11.54+00:00

Hi @RaytheonXie_MSFT This does seem to work yeah in my test environment. I wonder what went wrong then, perhaps the itemid that I got was from a deleted item.

The reason I need to have a reliable way to find the itemid of a folder using only the identifier([209] for example) is because the entities(Like a company) could change in regards to what the name of the folder should be. For instance the ITTER part is a search code we use within our software. But if the customer decides to change the searchcode of a relation, it should also change the foldername that still has the old searchcode.

But I can't seem to get a reliable way to search for a subfolder within a folder using only the identifier that I have. Cause the /search/query apparently also returns deleted items....

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