Clone team action allows to create a copy of an existing Microsoft team with the specified configuration options. You can select what to include in the copy: apps, channels, members and tabs.
Example of Clone team action configuration on the current site
Note: Execution of Clone team action could take up to 30 min.
For more information about Action Builder read Action Builder introduction article.
Note 1: In order to use the Clone team action in Scheduled/Triggered Actions skybow 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. Learn more about skybow M365 Connectors
Note 2: When you deploy the solution to another SharePoint tenant, it requires approval of skybow Teams Connector on the deployment tenant as well.
To configure the action Clone team additional properties should be specified:
Configuration
| Property | Required | Type | Description |
| Source team | yes | String | Name or Id of the source team you want to clone. |
| Team name | yes | String | Name of the new team. |
| ../sites/ | no | String | The name of the team used to build a the site url. |
| Description | yes | String | Description of the new team. |
| Mail nickname | yes | String | Mailnickname for the new team. |
| Team owner | yes | String | Specify 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. |
| Make team private | no | Boolean |
You can set the privacy of the team:
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| Clone apps | no | Boolean | Copies Microsoft Teams apps that are installed in the team. |
| Clone channels | no | Boolean |
Copies the channel structure (but not the messages in the channel). Note: Only Standard type is cloned (not private, not shared) |
| Clone channel folders | no | Boolean |
Copies folders in the channel. The option is available if the Clone channels option is 'yes'. |
| Clone members | no | Boolean | Copies the members of the group. |
| Clone tabs | no | Boolean |
Copies the tabs within channels. |
Availability
| Modern Forms | List Actions | Scheduled/Triggered Actions |
| - | - | ✓ |
Output
| Output Parameter | Type | Description |
| TeamID | String | Returns the Id of the team as output parameter and can be used in subsequent actions. |
| TeamName | String | Returns the Name of the team. |
| TeamDescription | String | Returns the description of the team. |
| TeamUrl | String | Returns the full URL to the created team in Microsoft Teams. |
| SiteUrl | String | Return the URL to the SharePoint site. |