Namespace: microsoft.graph
Create a new contactFolder under the user's default contacts folder.
You can also create a new contactfolder as a child of any specified 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
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) |
Contacts.ReadWrite |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Contacts.ReadWrite |
Application |
Contacts.ReadWrite |
HTTP request
POST /me/contactFolders
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders
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.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contactFolders
Content-type: application/json
{
"parentFolderId": "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",
"displayName": "Important contacts"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new ContactFolder
{
ParentFolderId = "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",
DisplayName = "Important contacts",
};
// 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.PostAsync(requestBody);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
mgc users contact-folders create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
"parentFolderId": "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",\
"displayName": "Important contacts"\
}\
'
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// 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()
parentFolderId := "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA=="
requestBody.SetParentFolderId(&parentFolderId)
displayName := "Important contacts"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
contactFolders, err := graphClient.Me().ContactFolders().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.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
ContactFolder contactFolder = new ContactFolder();
contactFolder.setParentFolderId("AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==");
contactFolder.setDisplayName("Important contacts");
ContactFolder result = graphClient.me().contactFolders().post(contactFolder);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const contactFolder = {
parentFolderId: 'AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==',
displayName: 'Important contacts'
};
await client.api('/me/contactFolders')
.post(contactFolder);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ContactFolder;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new ContactFolder();
$requestBody->setParentFolderId('AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Important contacts');
$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->contactFolders()->post($requestBody)->wait();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.PersonalContacts
$params = @{
parentFolderId = "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA=="
displayName = "Important contacts"
}
# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgUserContactFolder -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# 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(
parent_folder_id = "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",
display_name = "Important contacts",
)
result = await graph_client.me.contact_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/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json
{
"parentFolderId": "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",
"displayName": "Important contacts",
"id": "AAMkADIxYjJiYmIzLTFmNjYtNGNhMy04MDU0LTBkOTFkY2Y5NzE1NAAuAAAAAADESc12GiymT5Zp9IHtHnWZAQA2t6otiDF0TYOkcEEh3vhfAAAGgUC1AAA="
}