Create mailSearchFolder

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new mailSearchFolder in the specified user's mailbox.

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.

Parameter	Type	Description
@odata.type	String	The type of folder to be created. Set to "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder".
displayName	String	The display name of the new folder.
includeNestedFolders	Boolean	Indicates how the mailbox folder hierarchy should be traversed in the search. true means that a deep search should be done to include child folders in the hierarchy of each folder explicitly specified in sourceFolderIds. false means a shallow search of only each of the folders explicitly specified in sourceFolderIds.
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 201 Created response code and a mailSearchFolder object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following is an example of the request - it creates a search folder of messages that contain the string "weekly digest" in the subject. The search folder is under the same folder on which the specified filter query applies.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==/childFolders
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",
  "displayName": "Weekly digests",
  "includeNestedFolders": true,
  "sourceFolderIds": ["AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA=="],
  "filterQuery": "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')"
}

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",
	DisplayName = "Weekly digests",
	IncludeNestedFolders = true,
	SourceFolderIds = new List<string>
	{
		"AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==",
	},
	FilterQuery = "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')",
};

// 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

mgc users mail-folders child-folders create --user-id {user-id} --mail-folder-id {mailFolder-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",\
  "displayName": "Weekly digests",\
  "includeNestedFolders": true,\
  "sourceFolderIds": ["AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA=="],\
  "filterQuery": "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')"\
}\
'

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()
displayName := "Weekly digests"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
includeNestedFolders := true
requestBody.SetIncludeNestedFolders(&includeNestedFolders) 
sourceFolderIds := []string {
	"AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==",
}
requestBody.SetSourceFolderIds(sourceFolderIds)
filterQuery := "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')"
requestBody.SetFilterQuery(&filterQuery) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
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

// 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.setDisplayName("Weekly digests");
mailFolder.setIncludeNestedFolders(true);
LinkedList<String> sourceFolderIds = new LinkedList<String>();
sourceFolderIds.add("AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==");
mailFolder.setSourceFolderIds(sourceFolderIds);
mailFolder.setFilterQuery("contains(subject, 'weekly digest')");
MailFolder result = graphClient.me().mailFolders().byMailFolderId("{mailFolder-id}").childFolders().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 = {
  '@odata.type': 'microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder',
  displayName: 'Weekly digests',
  includeNestedFolders: true,
  sourceFolderIds: ['AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA=='],
  filterQuery: 'contains(subject, \'weekly digest\')'
};

await client.api('/me/mailFolders/AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==/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
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\MailSearchFolder;


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

$requestBody = new MailSearchFolder();
$requestBody->setOdataType('microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder');
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Weekly digests');
$requestBody->setIncludeNestedFolders(true);
$requestBody->setSourceFolderIds(['AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==', 	]);
$requestBody->setFilterQuery('contains(subject, \'weekly digest\')');

$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 = @{
	"@odata.type" = "microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder"
	displayName = "Weekly digests"
	includeNestedFolders = $true
	sourceFolderIds = @(
	"AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA=="
)
filterQuery = "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')"
}

# 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

# 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",
	display_name = "Weekly digests",
	include_nested_folders = True,
	source_folder_ids = [
		"AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==",
	],
	filter_query = "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')",
)

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

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

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('68ca8ec0-11f8-456b-a785-70d9936650d5')/mailFolders('AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA%3D%3D')/childFolders/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailSearchFolder",
    "id": "AAMkADYfRAAAZg1yTAAA=",
    "displayName": "Weekly digests",
    "parentFolderId": "AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA==",
    "childFolderCount": 0,
    "unreadItemCount": 0,
    "totalItemCount": 0,
    "isSupported": true,
    "includeNestedFolders": true,
    "sourceFolderIds": [
        "AQMkADYAAAIBDAAAAA=="
    ],
    "filterQuery": "contains(subject, 'weekly digest')"
}