Create ContactFolder

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new contactFolder as a child of a specified folder.

You can also create a new contactFolder under the user's default contact folder.

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

HTTP request

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

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of ContactFolder object.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and ContactFolder object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

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

{
  "displayName": "Family"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ContactFolder
{
	DisplayName = "Family",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.ContactFolders["{contactFolder-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

mgc users contact-folders child-folders create --user-id {user-id} --contact-folder-id {contactFolder-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Family"\
}\
'

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewContactFolder()
displayName := "Family"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
childFolders, err := graphClient.Me().ContactFolders().ByContactFolderId("contactFolder-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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ContactFolder contactFolder = new ContactFolder();
contactFolder.setDisplayName("Family");
ContactFolder result = graphClient.me().contactFolders().byContactFolderId("{contactFolder-id}").childFolders().post(contactFolder);

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 contactFolder = {
  displayName: 'Family'
};

await client.api('/me/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders')
	.post(contactFolder);

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ContactFolder;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ContactFolder();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Family');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->contactFolders()->byContactFolderId('contactFolder-id')->childFolders()->post($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.PersonalContacts

$params = @{
	displayName = "Family"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserContactFolderChildFolder -UserId $userId -ContactFolderId $contactFolderId -BodyParameter $params

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.contact_folder import ContactFolder
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ContactFolder(
	display_name = "Family",
)

result = await graph_client.me.contact_folders.by_contact_folder_id('contactFolder-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.

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of contactFolder object.

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",
  "displayName": "Family",
  "id": "AAMkADIxYjJiYmIzLTFmNjYtNGNhMy04MDU0LTBkOTFkY2Y5NzE1NAAuAAAAAADESc12GiymT5Zp9IHtHnWZAQA2t6otiDF0TYOkcEEh3vhfAAAGgUC1AAA="
}