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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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VBScript
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

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

set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

' 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 
set htFolderMap = CreateObject("Chilkat.Hashtable")
set sbMap = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbMap.LoadFile("qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml","utf-8")
success = htFolderMap.AddFromXmlSb(sbMap)

' Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
srcFolderId = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/abc/subFolderA")
If (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Folder ID not found")
    WScript.Quit
End If

dstFolderId = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/xyz")
If (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Destination folder ID not found")
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

set jsonRequestBody = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonRequestBody.UpdateString("DestinationId",dstFolderId)

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

' Copy the source folder to the new location
set resp = CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy",jsonRequestBody,"application/json",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

' Show the response in both cases..
set jsonResponse = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = 0
success = jsonResponse.Load(resp.BodyStr)
outFile.WriteLine(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
' 	}

outFile.Close