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.
Caution
The Outlook tasks API is deprecated and stopped returning data on August 20, 2022. Use the To Do API instead.
Create an Outlook task folder under a specified outlookTaskGroup.
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) |
Tasks.ReadWrite |
Not available. |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Tasks.ReadWrite |
Not available. |
| Application |
Not supported. |
Not supported. |
HTTP request
POST /me/outlook/taskGroups/{id}/taskFolders
POST /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/outlook/taskGroups/{id}/taskFolders
Request body
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of outlookTaskFolder object.
Response
If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and outlookTaskFolder object in the response body.
Example
Request
The following example creates a task folder called Cooking in the specified task group.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/outlook/taskGroups/AAMkADIyAAAhrbe-AAA=/taskFolders
Content-type: application/json
{
"name": "Cooking"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;
var requestBody = new OutlookTaskFolder
{
Name = "Cooking",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Outlook.TaskGroups["{outlookTaskGroup-id}"].TaskFolders.PostAsync(requestBody);
mgc-beta users outlook task-groups task-folders create --user-id {user-id} --outlook-task-group-id {outlookTaskGroup-id} --body '{\
"name": "Cooking"\
}\
'
// 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.NewOutlookTaskFolder()
name := "Cooking"
requestBody.SetName(&name)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
taskFolders, err := graphClient.Me().Outlook().TaskGroups().ByOutlookTaskGroupId("outlookTaskGroup-id").TaskFolders().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
OutlookTaskFolder outlookTaskFolder = new OutlookTaskFolder();
outlookTaskFolder.setName("Cooking");
OutlookTaskFolder result = graphClient.me().outlook().taskGroups().byOutlookTaskGroupId("{outlookTaskGroup-id}").taskFolders().post(outlookTaskFolder);
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const outlookTaskFolder = {
name: 'Cooking'
};
await client.api('/me/outlook/taskGroups/AAMkADIyAAAhrbe-AAA=/taskFolders')
.version('beta')
.post(outlookTaskFolder);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\OutlookTaskFolder;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new OutlookTaskFolder();
$requestBody->setName('Cooking');
$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->outlook()->taskGroups()->byOutlookTaskGroupId('outlookTaskGroup-id')->taskFolders()->post($requestBody)->wait();
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Users
$params = @{
name = "Cooking"
}
# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserOutlookTaskGroupTaskFolder -UserId $userId -OutlookTaskGroupId $outlookTaskGroupId -BodyParameter $params
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.outlook_task_folder import OutlookTaskFolder
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = OutlookTaskFolder(
name = "Cooking",
)
result = await graph_client.me.outlook.task_groups.by_outlook_task_group_id('outlookTaskGroup-id').task_folders.post(request_body)
In the request body, supply a JSON representation of outlookTaskFolder 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
{
"id": "AAMkADIyAAAhrbPXAAA=",
"changeKey": "hmM7Eb/jgEec8l3+gkJEawAAIbAOlA==",
"isDefaultFolder": false,
"name": "Cooking",
"parentGroupKey": "63d640cf-946f-4734-9c29-60dda7b76acb"
}