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 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 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 |
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| 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 |
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 |