How to Create a SharePoint Group via Power Automate

SharePoint Groups are one of the most fundamental tools in SharePoint. They give you the opportunity to add and remove users to a group which in turn gives you the opportunity to define permissions and roles within the group.

 

Here you will learn how to create a SharePoint Group using PowerAutomate so that you can take full advantage of its strengths within SharePoint. This Power Automate flow will allow you to create a new SharePoint group on a specific site of your choosing.

 

Solution:

Your first step in creating this flow is to start by building the flow with the manual trigger action and naming your flow something like, “CreateSharepointGroup”

Next you will be making the next action card a “Send a HTTPs request to SharePoint”.

Use the below image of the flow as a template of what your flow should look like.

//Copiable Code for the above HTTP request

Headers:

Accept ---- application/json;odata=verbose
Content-Type ---- application/json;odata=verbose

Body:
{
 "_metadata":{
"type":"SP.Group"
},
"Title":"My new SP group",
"Description":"SP group created by Power Automate flow"
}

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