Google Sheets API: Create or move Spreadsheet into Folder

Question

Is it possible to create a Spreadsheet in a specified Folder or do I have to use the Drive API to move it afterwards?

Answer 1

Depends on how you want to use and how do you create your Spreadsheet, it is possible to create Spreadsheet like so.

 function create_ss_in_folder(folder, name) {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.create(name);
  var id = ss.getId();
  var file = DriveApp.getFileById(id);
  var folder = get_folder_by_name(folder);
  folder.addFile(file);
  DriveApp.getRootFolder().removeFile(file);
  return id;
}

Again with not much info i do not know why would you create Spreadsheets manually when there is programmatic way to do it.

Some helpful links:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/folder

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/advanced/drive

Update:

  //Move it to desired folder
  var fileID = 'Your file ID'
  var folderID = 'Folder ID'
  var file = DriveApp.getFileById(fileID).getName()
  var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById(folderID)
  var newFile = file.makeCopy(file, folder)

  // This will remove it from root.
  DriveApp.getFileById(fileID).setTrashed(true)