Update group action allows to manage a Microsoft 365 group, update the group name or description, change the security and visibility options, etc.
Example of Update group action configuration on the current site
For more information about Action Builder read Action Builder introduction article.
Note 1: In order to use the Update group action in Scheduled/Triggered Actions skybow Groups 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 Groups Connector on the deployment tenant as well.
To configure the action Update group additional properties should be specified:
Configuration
| Property | Required | Type | Description |
| Group to update | yes | String | Specify the Id or the name of the group should be updated. |
| Group name | no | String | Specify a new name of the group. |
| Group description | no | String | You can specify description for the group. |
| Group mail nickname | no | String | Specify new nickname of the group email address. |
| Visibility | no | String |
Specifies the visibility of a Microsoft 365 group. The possible values are: Private, Public or Custom value (expression based value, the result should return one of the valid option). |
| Enable security | no | Boolean | You can specifies whether the group is a security group. |
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Hide group from address lists
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no | Boolean | Specify whether to hide the group from the global address list |
| Hide group from Outlook clients | no | Boolean | Specify whether to hide the group from the Outlook clients |
| Allow to add guests | no | Boolean | Specify whether to allow to add guests to the group |
Availability
| Modern Forms | List Actions | Scheduled/Triggered Actions |
| - | - | ✓ |
Output
| Output Parameter | Type | Description |
| GroupID | String | Returns the Id of the group as output parameter and can be used in subsequent actions. |
| GroupName | String | Returns the name of the group |
| GroupDesc | String | Returns description of the group |
| GroupVisibility | Boolean | Returns true or false |
| GroupSecurityEnabled | Boolean | Returns true or false |
| GroupMailNickname | String | Returns the mail nickname of the group |