Create a new folder in a drive

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Create a new folder or DriveItem in a Drive with a specified parent item or path.

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)	Files.ReadWrite	Files.ReadWrite.All, Sites.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.ReadWrite	Files.ReadWrite.All
Application	Files.ReadWrite.All	Sites.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

POST /drives/{drive-id}/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /me/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /sites/{site-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children
POST /users/{user-id}/drive/items/{parent-item-id}/children

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the DriveItem resource to create.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and a Driveitem resource in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request to create a new folder in the signed-in user's OneDrive root folder. The @microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior property used indicates that if an item already exists with the same name, the service should choose a new name for the folder while creating it.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/drive/root/children
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "New Folder",
  "folder": { },
  "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new DriveItem
{
	Name = "New Folder",
	Folder = new Folder
	{
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" , "rename"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Children.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta drives items children create --drive-id {drive-id} --drive-item-id {driveItem-id} --body '{\
  "name": "New Folder",\
  "folder": { },\
  "@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior": "rename"\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphmodels.NewDriveItem()
name := "New Folder"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 
folder := graphmodels.NewFolder()
requestBody.SetFolder(folder)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" : "rename", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
children, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Children().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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);

DriveItem driveItem = new DriveItem();
driveItem.setName("New Folder");
Folder folder = new Folder();
driveItem.setFolder(folder);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior", "rename");
driveItem.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
DriveItem result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").children().post(driveItem);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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 driveItem = {
  name: 'New Folder',
  folder: { },
  '@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior': 'rename'
};

await client.api('/me/drive/root/children')
	.version('beta')
	.post(driveItem);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\DriveItem;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\Folder;


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

$requestBody = new DriveItem();
$requestBody->setName('New Folder');
$folder = new Folder();
$requestBody->setFolder($folder);
$additionalData = [
	'@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior' => 'rename',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->children()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.Files

$params = @{
	name = "New Folder"
	folder = @{
	}
	"@microsoft.graph.conflictBehavior" = "rename"
}

New-MgBetaDriveItemChild -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.drive_item import DriveItem
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.folder import Folder
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DriveItem(
	name = "New Folder",
	folder = Folder(
	),
	additional_data = {
			"@microsoft_graph_conflict_behavior" : "rename",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').children.post(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Response

If successful, this method returns the newly created folder as a DriveItem resource.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "createdBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "309EC495-3E92-431D-9124-F0299633171D"
    }
  },
  "createdDateTime": "2016-09-20T14:34:00Z",
  "eTag": "343F1FBD-E9B3-4DDE-BCA7-D61AEAFF44E5,1",
  "id": "ACEA49D1-1444-45A9-A1CB-68B1B28AE491",
  "lastModifiedBy": {
    "user": {
      "displayName": "Ryan Gregg",
      "id": "309EC495-3E92-431D-9124-F0299633171D"
    }
  },
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2016-09-20T14:34:00Z",
  "name": "New Folder",
  "parentReference": {
    "driveId": "5FE38E3C-051C-4D55-9B83-8A437658275B",
    "id": "E67A8F34-B0AA-46E1-8FF7-0750A29553DF",
    "path": "/drive/root:/"
  },
  "size": 0,
  "folder": {
    "childCount": 0
  }
}

Error response

See Error Responses for more info about how errors are returned.