CreateFolder - Resource Management - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Creates a folder.

Operation description

Note A maximum of five levels of folders can be created under the root folder.

In this example, a folder named rdFolder is created under the root folder.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
resourcemanager:CreateFolder	create	Folder `acs:resourcemanager::{#accountId}:folder/{#ResourceDirectoryPath}`	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
ParentFolderId	string	No	The ID of the parent folder.	r-b1****
FolderName	string	Yes	The name of the folder. The name must be 1 to 24 characters in length and can contain letters, digits, underscores (_), periods (.),and hyphens (-).	rdFolder

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	C2CBCA30-C8DD-423E-B4AD-4FB694C9180C
Folder	object	The information of the folder.
FolderId	string	The ID of the folder.	fd-u8B321****
CreateTime	string	The time when the folder was created.	2019-02-19T09:34:50.757Z
ParentFolderId	string	The ID of the parent folder.	r-b1****
FolderName	string	The name of the folder.	rdFolder

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "C2CBCA30-C8DD-423E-B4AD-4FB694C9180C",
  "Folder": {
    "FolderId": "fd-u8B321****",
    "CreateTime": "2019-02-19T09:34:50.757Z",
    "ParentFolderId": "r-b1****",
    "FolderName": "rdFolder"
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	InvalidParameter.ParentFolderId	The ParentFolderId is invalid.	The specified ID of the parent folder is invalid. The ID must either be a 6-character string that starts with r- or a 10-character string that starts with fd-. The ID can contain letters and digits.
400	MissingParameter.Folder.Name	You must specify the resource folder name.	The specified name of the resource directory is invalid. You must specify a valid resource directory name.
400	InvalidParameter.Folder.Name	The Name of folder is invalid.	The Name of folder is invalid. The name must only contain letters, digits, underscores (_), periods (.), and hyphens (-).
400	InvalidParameter.Folder.Name.Length	The Name of folder exceeds the length limit.	The length of the specified folder name exceeds the limit. The name must be 1 to 24 characters in length.
400	InvalidParameter.Folder.Name.AlreadyUsed	The name already exists under the same parent. Please change to another name.	The name already exists under the same parent. Please change to another one.
404	EntityNotExists.ResourceDirectory	The resource directory for the account is not enabled. We recommend that you first enable the resource directory for the account.	The resource directory for the account is not enabled. We recommend that you first enable the resource directory for the account.
404	EntityNotExists.Folder	The resource directory folder does not exist.	The specified resource directory does not exist. We recommend that you first create a resource directory.
409	LimitExceeded.Folder.Depth	The folder depth exceeds the limit of 5.	The depth of folder levels exceeds the limit. You can create a maximum of 5 levels, excluding the root directory.
409	QuotaExceeded.Folder.Count	The number of folders exceeds the quota.	The number of folders exceeds the quota.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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