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 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/beta/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.Beta.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);
mgc-beta users contact-folders create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
"parentFolderId": "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==",\
"displayName": "Important contacts"\
}\
'
// 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.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)
// 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);
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const contactFolder = {
parentFolderId: 'AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA==',
displayName: 'Important contacts'
};
await client.api('/me/contactFolders')
.version('beta')
.post(contactFolder);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\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();
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.PersonalContacts
$params = @{
parentFolderId = "AQMkADIxYjJiYgEzLTFmNjYALTRjYTMtODA1NC0wZDkxZGNmOTcxNTQALgAAA8RJzXYaLKZPlmn0ge0edZkBADa3qi2IMXRNg6RwQSHe_F8AAAIBDgAAAA=="
displayName = "Important contacts"
}
# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
New-MgBetaUserContactFolder -UserId $userId -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.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)
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="
}