Create ContactFolder

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 headers

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

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
Content-type: application/json

{
  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",
  "displayName": "Important contacts"
}

C#

// 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.

CLI

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.

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()
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.

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.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.

JavaScript

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

<?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.

PowerShell

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.

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(
	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="
}