# Creating a dashboard within a folder using a API Call (i.e)

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/creating-a-dashboard-within-a-folder-using-a-api-call-i-e/24239>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 27, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/creating-a-dashboard-within-a-folder-using-a-api-call-i-e/24239 "2019-12-27T05:17:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![chaithuam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@chaithuam](https://community.grafana.com/u/chaithuam)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/creating-a-dashboard-within-a-folder-using-a-api-call-i-e/24239/1 "2019-12-27T05:17:24Z")

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Hello Grafana community,

What I am trying:

- there is a folder named **“my\_folder”** , I want to create a dashboard named **“my\_dashboard”** inside **"my\_folder"**
- from the grafana docs the only way to create is by using the **folderId** corresponding to **“my\_folder”** in the Create/Update Dashboard API call below

```auto
{
  "dashboard": {
    "id": null,
    "uid": null,
    "title": "Production Overview",
    "tags": ["templated"],
    "timezone": "browser",
    "schemaVersion": 16,
    "version": 0
  },
  "folderId": 0,
  "overwrite": false
}

```

Question:

- Is this the recommended way to create a dashboard within an already existing folder ?
- Is there another way to do it ? am I missing something really obvious here ?

Thank you 🙂

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**Author:** ![jangaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jangaraj/32/39197_2.png) [@jangaraj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jangaraj)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/creating-a-dashboard-within-a-folder-using-a-api-call-i-e/24239/2 "2019-12-27T06:46:16Z")

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- Yes
- [https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/)