Action: Create channel

Action: Create channel

Create channel action allows automatically create a Standard, Private or Shared channel in ‎
Microsoft Teams.

Example of Create channel action configuration on the current site


For more information about Action Builder read Action Builder introduction
 article.

Note 1: In order to use the Create channel action in Scheduled/Triggered Actions Teamsware Teams Connector has to be approved by a tenant administrator and site has to be added to Approved sites list before this action can be used.
Note 2: When you deploy the solution to another SharePoint tenant, it requires approval of Teamsware Teams Connector on the deployment tenant as well.

To configure the action Create channel additional properties should be specified:

Configuration

Property

Required

Type

Description

Team

yes

String

Id or name of the team add channel to

Channel name

yes

String

Name of the channel should be created

Description

yes

String

Description of the channel

Membership type

yes

String
  • Standard - Everyone on the team has access
  • Private - Specific teammates have access
  • Shared - People you choose from your org or other orgs have access
  • Custom value - expression based value (standard, private or shared)

Channel owner

yes

String

An email address or an expression to be evaluated as an email address to be used as the owner of the team. Support only single value. Note: This option available for Private, Shared or Custom value options

Automatically show this channel in everyone's channel list

no

Boolean
  • Yes - Automatically show this channel in everyone's channel list
  • No - Channel is hidden
  • Custom Value - expression based value (the result should return true of false)

Note: This option available for Standard membership type or with Custom value option


Availability

Modern Forms

List Actions

Scheduled/Triggered Actions

-

-

✓

 

Output

Output Parameter

Type

Description

ChannelID

String

Returns the Id of the created channel as output parameter and can be used in subsequent actions.

ChannelName

String

Returns the name of the channel

ChannelDescription

String

Returns the description of the channel

ChannelUrl

String

Returns the full URL to the created channel in Microsoft Teams

 



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