Office 365 add user to group

Adds a user to an existing group in SharePoint Online with permissions to control access to sites and content.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
Destination site URL

URL of the site or site collection of the group in SharePoint Online for the user addition.

User

Login name or email address for the user to be added.

Group

Name of the group for the user addition.

Sharepoint Online URL

URL of the SharePoint Online website domain. Example: http://targetdomain.sharepoint.com.

Connection
  • Permissions required: Admin rights to add users to the specified group in the specified site.
  • Connection type required: SharePoint Online: Site & user administration. For more information about Connection types, see Connection types and Connector actions.
Username / Password

(Displayed for legacy actions not yet updated.) Unmanaged credentials.

  • Permissions required: Admin rights to add users to the specified group in the specified site.

Note: As a best practice, manage credentials by updating actions to use connections.

User addition successful

Boolean variable to store operation result. Returns "Yes" if the user is successfully added to the SharePoint group.

For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.