Open PowerShell and make sure that you have the latest SharePoint Online Management Shell installed.Ĭonnect to your tenant using Connect-SPOService. This generates the HTTP Post URL that you will need to copy for your site script triggerFlow action.Ĭhoose the first step in your flow ('When an HTTP request is received') and copy the URL. When you are done your action should look something like this:Ĭhoose Save. For example: 'Contoso Travel: New Project Site Created'.įor each field in your list form, add the corresponding element from the Dynamic Content picker. Select the 'Site Directory' list you created in the previous step.Įnter a value for the Title field - this will be the same value for each list item. Search for Create item, and select SharePoint - Create item.Įnter the site address where the list above was created. NOTE: The Request trigger is now PREMIUM and will therefore require additional licensing.Įnter the following JSON as your request body: Search for Request, and then choose Request - When a HTTP Request is received. Go to the Power Automate site, sign in, and choose * + Automated-from blank at the top of the page.Ĭhoose Search connectors and triggers to select your trigger

In order to capture the site creation event and create the corresponding list item, you need to create a flow - which can then be referenced in your site design's site script: Select a site collection to host your list. You need to first set up the list that will be used to record all the sites created using this site design. You'll first create the SharePoint list and then it will be referenced in your Power Automate flow - which will be triggered by the site design applied after the site is created. The steps in this article illustrate the following components: Whenever a site is created using this site design, details of the site are captured and written to a SharePoint list. This article describes how to build a simple site directory using a site design and Power Automate. Power Automate flows can also be used for business automation - in this case, used with site designs to track the creation of sites! One of the script actions - triggerFlow - can be used to call custom solutions to apply configurations we don't support natively. Site designs are a powerful extensibility mechanism for customizing - and standardizing - the look and feel of your site collections.

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