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Outlook -- Copy Mail Folder and Contents to another Mail Folder

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Copy a mailfolder and its contents to another mailfolder.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp

'  Use your previously obtained access token here:
http.AuthToken = "MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN"

'  This example will copy /Inbox/abc/subFolderA and its contents to /Inbox/xyz
'  We'll need the folder ids for both source and destination folders..

'  Get the folder IDs from the folder map created by this example 
Dim htFolderMap As New ChilkatHashtable
Dim sbMap As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = sbMap.LoadFile("qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml","utf-8")
success = htFolderMap.AddFromXmlSb(sbMap)

'  Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
Dim srcFolderId As String
srcFolderId = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/abc/subFolderA")
If (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "Folder ID not found"
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim dstFolderId As String
dstFolderId = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/xyz")
If (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "Destination folder ID not found"
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Create a JSON request body with this content:
'  
'  		{
'  		  "DestinationId": "destinationId-value"
'  		}

Dim jsonRequestBody As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = jsonRequestBody.UpdateString("DestinationId",dstFolderId)

success = http.SetUrlVar("src_folder_id",srcFolderId)

'  Copy the source folder to the new location
Dim resp As New ChilkatHttpResponse
success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy",jsonRequestBody,"application/json",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  A 201 response indicates success.
If (resp.StatusCode = 201) Then
    Debug.Print "Folder copied."
Else
    Debug.Print "Response status code = " & resp.StatusCode
    Debug.Print "Error: Folder not copied."
End If

'  Show the response in both cases..
Dim jsonResponse As New ChilkatJsonObject
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
success = jsonResponse.Load(resp.BodyStr)
Debug.Print jsonResponse.Emit()

'  A sample successful JSON response looks like this:

'  	{
'  	  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#mailFolder",
'  	  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailFolder",
'  	  "id": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAM6JqMAAAAA=",
'  	  "displayName": "subFolderA",
'  	  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAL8huwEAAAA=",
'  	  "childFolderCount": 1,
'  	  "unreadItemCount": 0,
'  	  "totalItemCount": 0
'  	}