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title Create mailSearchFolder
description Use this API to create a new mailSearchFolder in the specified user's mailbox.
ms.localizationpriority medium
author SuryaLashmiS
ms.subservice outlook
doc_type apiPageType
ms.date 04/04/2024

Create mailSearchFolder

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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

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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.

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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')"
}

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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')"
}