Creating Folder in Sharepoint Site from Postman

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Srikanth-8498 asked Apr 7, '22 TongZhangMSFT-7548 commented Apr 26, '22

Creating Folder in Sharepoint Site from Postman

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://docs.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.

Step 3: Using the Step 1 token and Step 2 "FormDigestValue" preparing the next call to Create a folder in SharePoint.
a. Header Info

b. Body

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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Answer 1 · 2022-04-08T03:36:26.297Z

TongZhangMSFT-7548 answered Apr 8, '22 TongZhangMSFT-7548 commented Apr 26, '22

Hi @Srikanth-8498,
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"

3.Input the following script in the body:

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

4.Click " Send", and the folder is created successfully.

-------------------------------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).

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"
 }

My test results:

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Srikanth-8498 · Apr 08 at 04:29 AM

@TongZhangMSFT-7548,
Appreciate your response. The only difference in my call is Content-Length( It was errored out without "Content-Length" ). Still the POST call could not create a folder. Please let me know if i am missing anything here. Thank you

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TongZhangMSFT-7548 Srikanth-8498 · Apr 08 at 08:11 AM

Hi @Srikanth-8498,
Please try to reacquire "Access_token" ,here is a document about get 'Access_token' you can refer to.

Reference:
https://global-sharepoint.com/sharepoint-online/in-4-steps-access-sharepoint-online-data-using-postman-tool/

If possible, can you share the error message "without 'Content-Length' "?

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Srikanth-8498 TongZhangMSFT-7548 · Apr 08 at 02:55 PM

@TongZhangMSFT-7548

Here is the error message if i don't maintain the 'Content-Length'. We do not have any issue with the 'Access Key' as we are able to create the files in the Share point site. The issue is only with the folder creation.

I have used new key as well.

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