Clone channel action allows to create a copy of an existing channel from Microsoft team with the specified configuration options. You can select what to include in the copy: members, tabs and folders.
Example of Clone channel action configuration on the current site
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Note 1: In order to use the Clone 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 Clone channel additional properties should be specified:
Configuration
| Property | Required | Type | Description |
| Source team | yes | String | Name or Id of the team you want to clone channel from. |
| Source channel | yes | String | Name or Id of the team you want to clone channel from. |
| Target Team | yes | String | Name or Id of the team you want to clone channel to. |
| New channel name | no | String | Name for the created channel |
| Channel owner | no | String | Id or email of a user |
| Clone members | no | Boolean | Copies the members of the group |
| Clone tabs | no | Boolean | Copies the tabs within channel |
| Clone folders | no | Boolean | Copies the folders from the channel |
Availability
| Modern Forms | List Actions | Scheduled/Triggered Actions |
| - | - | ✓ |
Output
| Output Parameter | Type | Description |
| ChannelID | String | Returns the Id of the channel as output parameter and can be used in subsequent actions. |
| ChannelName | String | Returns the updated name of the channel |
| ChannelDescription | String | Returns the updated description of the channel |
| ChannelUrl | String | Returns the full URL to the channel in Microsoft Teams |