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