Creating a Folder in OneDrive from Graph in Flow

[LuiseFreese]

Hi, I try to build a flow which creates a new folder in my OneDrive. To get an easy start, I just used the mobile button.

As there is no "create a folder oin OneDrive" action, I thought about a HTTP action. I registered an app in Azure AD, gave permissions and initialialized variables TenantID, App ID, App Secret because need them in my http action.

I also initalized a variable for "me":

in Microsoft Graph i used this to get my ID:

and got this response:

I wrote this ID into a variable called "me".

My flow looks like this:

Flow runs perfectly without error messages - BUT!

It doesn't create a new folder in my onedrive but in SharePoint:

translation: Freigegebene Dokumente = Shared Documents

this is the URL:

https://raeuberleiterin.sharepoint.com/Freigegebene%20Dokumente/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2FFr...

When I try to create a folder in my onedrive directly with MS Graph using POST method the folder is created in my OneDrive.

I don't understand the problem  - anybody who has some kind of idea?

Thanks,

Luise

[MattWeston365]

Hi @LuiseFreese are you going to do something with Folder once it's been created i.e. putting something in there as part of this Flow or is it simply to create a Folder?

If you're going to put a document in there, the action of Create File in OneDrive for Business will ask you to provide a Folder. If the Folder doesn't exist, it will create it, and will then create the document in there.

If you're only going to create a folder, I suppose a less elegant way of doing it, but without the hassle of App IDs etc, would be to create a File to force the creation of the folder, and then delete the file straight away leaving the folder empty.

I'll have a look at the Graph call in the morning to see if I can recreate the issue and to see what might be causing it.

[LuiseFreese]

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. First, I just want to understand why this doesn't work. I found a way to do it, just used the azure connector.

[TomaszPoszytek · Accepted solution]

@LuiseFreese if you already have your user's ID and facing issues with calling /me/ directly form Flow, maybe try using /users/ instead? So then your request should call the following URL:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/YOUR-ID/drive/root/children

And body as you wrote, e.g.:

{
"name": "Test2",
"folder":{}
}

Best regards,

Tomasz

[LuiseFreese]

This works! Thank you!!