Visual Basic 6.0
Visual Basic 6.0
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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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
' }