Create outlookTaskFolder (deprecated)

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

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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 headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

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"
}

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"
}