Update mailSearchFolder

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the writable properties of a mailSearchFolder object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Mail.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.ReadWrite
Application	Mail.ReadWrite

HTTP request

PATCH /me/mailFolders/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}

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 the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintain their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	The display name of the mailFolder.
includeNestedFolders	Boolean	How the mailbox folder hierarchy should be traversed. true means that a deep search should be done while false means a shallow search should be done instead.
sourceFolderIds	String collection	The mailbox folders that should be mined.
filterQuery	String	The OData query to filter the messages.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and an updated mailFolder object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following is an example request that updates the filterQuery property of the search folder.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/AAMkAGVmMDEzM
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",
  "filterQuery": "contains(subject, 'Analytics')"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new MailSearchFolder
{
	OdataType = "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",
	FilterQuery = "contains(subject, 'Analytics')",
};

// 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}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc users mail-folders patch --user-id {user-id} --mail-folder-id {mailFolder-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",\
  "filterQuery": "contains(subject, 'Analytics')"\
}\
'

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.NewMailFolder()
filterQuery := "contains(subject, 'Analytics')"
requestBody.SetFilterQuery(&filterQuery) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
mailFolders, err := graphClient.Me().MailFolders().ByMailFolderId("mailFolder-id").Patch(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);

MailSearchFolder mailFolder = new MailSearchFolder();
mailFolder.setOdataType("microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder");
mailFolder.setFilterQuery("contains(subject, 'Analytics')");
MailFolder result = graphClient.me().mailFolders().byMailFolderId("{mailFolder-id}").patch(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 = {
  '@odata.type': 'microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder',
  filterQuery: 'contains(subject, \'Analytics\')'
};

await client.api('/me/mailFolders/AAMkAGVmMDEzM')
	.update(mailFolder);

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\MailSearchFolder;


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

$requestBody = new MailSearchFolder();
$requestBody->setOdataType('microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder');
$requestBody->setFilterQuery('contains(subject, \'Analytics\')');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->mailFolders()->byMailFolderId('mailFolder-id')->patch($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 = @{
	"@odata.type" = "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder"
	filterQuery = "contains(subject, 'Analytics')"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Update-MgUserMailFolder -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

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.mail_search_folder import MailSearchFolder
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = MailSearchFolder(
	odata_type = "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",
	filter_query = "contains(subject, 'Analytics')",
)

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

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

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

{
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",
  "id": "AAMkAGVmMDEzMx",
  "displayName": "Get MyAnalytics",
  "parentFolderId": "AAMkAGVmMDEzMy",
  "childFolderCount": 0,
  "unreadItemCount": 0,
  "totalItemCount": 0,
  "isSupported": true,
  "includeNestedFolders": true,
  "sourceFolderIds": [
      "AAMkAGVmMDEzMi"
  ],
  "filterQuery": "contains(subject, 'Analytics')"
}