Create child folder

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Use this API to create a new child mailFolder.

If you intend a new folder to be hidden, you must set the isHidden property to true on creation.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

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)	Mail.ReadWrite	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.ReadWrite	Not available.
Application	Mail.ReadWrite	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders

Specify the parent folder in the query URL as a folder ID, or a well-known folder name. For a list of supported well-known folder names, see mailFolder resource type.

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters. displayName and isHidden are the only writable property for a mailFolder object.

Parameter	Type	Description
displayName	String	The display name of the new folder.
isHidden	Boolean	Indicates whether the new folder is hidden. The default value is false. Setting the property is optional. Once set, you cannot update this property. See more information in Hidden mail folders

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and a mailFolder resource in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "isHidden": true
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new MailFolder
{
	DisplayName = "displayName-value",
	IsHidden = true,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.MailFolders["{mailFolder-id}"].ChildFolders.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users mail-folders child-folders create --user-id {user-id} --mail-folder-id {mailFolder-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "displayName-value",\
  "isHidden": true\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewMailFolder()
displayName := "displayName-value"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
isHidden := true
requestBody.SetIsHidden(&isHidden) 

childFolders, err := graphClient.Me().MailFolders().ByMailFolderId("mailFolder-id").ChildFolders().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

MailFolder mailFolder = new MailFolder();
mailFolder.displayName = "displayName-value";
mailFolder.isHidden = true;

graphClient.me().mailFolders("{id}").childFolders()
	.buildRequest()
	.post(mailFolder);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const mailFolder = {
  displayName: 'displayName-value',
  isHidden: true
};

await client.api('/me/mailFolders/{id}/childFolders')
	.post(mailFolder);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new MailFolder();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('displayName-value');
$requestBody->setIsHidden(true);

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->mailFolders()->byMailFolderId('mailFolder-id')->childFolders()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Mail

$params = @{
	displayName = "displayName-value"
	isHidden = $true
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserMailFolderChildFolder -UserId $userId -MailFolderId $mailFolderId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = MailFolder(
	display_name = "displayName-value",
	is_hidden = True,
)

result = await graph_client.me.mail_folders.by_mail_folder_id('mailFolder-id').child_folders.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Here is an example of the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
  "childFolderCount": 99,
  "unreadItemCount": 99,
  "totalItemCount": 99,
  "id": "id-value",
  "isHidden": true
}