How to Create a Spreadsheet in a particular folder via App Script

Question

Can anybody help me out,

I want to create a Spreadsheet through App Script in a particular folder. How to do that.

Presently I am doing as follow:

Answer 1

You can create a spreadSheet and then add it to the folder.

function createSpreadSheetInFolder(name,folder){
    var ss = SpreadsheetApp.create(name);
    var id = ss.getId();
    var file = DriveApp.getFileById(id);
    folder.addFile(file);
    return ss;
}
folderId='your_folder_id'
name='my_new_ss'
folder=DriveApp.getFolderById(folderId)
createSpreadSheetInFolder(name,folder)

By using the folder.addFile method there's no need to use a temp file (no need to duplicate and remove file). Pretty straightforward !

Answer 2

  folder = DriveApp.getFolderById("FOLDER_ID")
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.create("SPREADSHEET_NAME")
  DriveApp.getFileById(ss.getId()).moveTo(folder);

You may use the above code to achieve the same without using advanced drive services

Answer 3

As suggested by @Joshua, it's possible to create a Spreadsheet (in a specific folder) with the Advanced Drive Service:

var name = 'your-spreadsheet-name'
var folderId = 'your-folder-id'
var resource = {
  title: name,
  mimeType: MimeType.GOOGLE_SHEETS,
  parents: [{ id: folderId }]
}
var fileJson = Drive.Files.insert(resource)
var fileId = fileJson.id

No need to move files around with this method !