Creating Folder in Sharepoint Site from Postman

Srikanth 21 Reputation points
2022-04-07T21:39:37.647+00:00

Hi All,

We're trying to create a folder in the SharePoint from third party system with the help of the below link, prior to that we are trying it from Postman, but the call takes about a minute with out any response.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/working-with-folders-and-files-with-rest

Step 1: Get the access token (Bearer token)
Step 2: Using the Step 1 token get the X-RequestDigest value.

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Step 3: Using the Step 1 token and Step 2 "FormDigestValue" preparing the next call to Create a folder in SharePoint.
a. Header Info
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b. Body
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Step 3 Call response: "Could not get response".

Is there any issue in the call? Can you please give us any direction to resolve this issue.
Appreciate your help. Thanks you

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  1. Tong Zhang_MSFT 9,116 Reputation points
    2022-04-08T03:36:26.297+00:00

    Hi @Srikanth ,
    According to my research and testing, you can try to create Folder in SharePoint site using postman according to the following steps.
    Hope it can help you, thanks for your understanding and support.

    Steps:
    1.get "Access_token";
    2.

    POST https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxxxx/\_api/web/folders
    Authorization: "Bearer " + accessToken
    Accept: "application/json;odata=verbose"
    Content-Type: "application/json;odata=verbose"

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    3.Input the following script in the body:

    {
    "__metadata": {
    "type": "SP.Folder"
    },
    "ServerRelativeUrl": "https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxxxx/test/folder"
    }

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    4.Click "Send", and the folder is created successfully.
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    Update-------------------------------
    Please follow these steps to create a folder in SharePoint, and check if there are any missing steps:
    1.Follow the steps in the documentation to get the "Access_token" (as shown in the following screenshot).
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    2.Copy the "Access_token" to "Authorization". And input "URL" , "Headers" and "Body"

    POST https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxxxx/\_api/web/folders
    Authorization: "Bearer " + accessToken
    Accept: "application/json;odata=verbose"
    Content-Type: "application/json;odata=verbose"
    Content-Length: "148"

    {  
      "__metadata": {  
        "type": "SP.Folder"  
      },  
      "ServerRelativeUrl": "https://xxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxxx/test/newfolder1"  
    }  
    

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    My test results:
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  1. Ibrar Ahmad 1 Reputation point
    2022-08-24T09:20:27.537+00:00

    Hi @Tong Zhang_MSFT ,
    I am facing issue in contextinfo, Can you help me?

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    Thank You

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