Office 365 create site collection

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 is available only with the Nintex for Office 365 Enterprise Edition.

Creates site collections on SharePoint 2013 Online site.

You can use this action to automate creation of site collections as part of a project registration process. For example, teams may request site collections when they receive funding for new projects.

For more information about creating site collections using SharePoint Online, see the following Microsoft articles.

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
SharePoint admin center URL	URL of the SharePoint admin center to be used to create the site collection. Example: https://targetdomain-admin.sharepoint.com
Connection	Permissions required: to create site collections. Connection type required: SharePoint Online: Site collection 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: to create site collections. Note: As a best practice, manage credentials by updating actions to use connections.
Title	Title for the new site collection (displayed on the home page).
URL path	Type of URL path for the new site collection. The selection is appended to the tenant URL. Example: Sites Resulting URL (Sites): https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/
Site collection URL name	URL name for the new site collection. Maximum characters: 90. The URL name is appended to the URL path. Example: MySiteCollection Resulting URL (MySiteCollection): https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/MySiteCollection
Language	Language for the new site collection. Note: It is important to select the appropriate language for the site collection, because once it is chosen, it cannot be changed. SharePoint allows you to enable its multiple language interface in sites, but the primary language for the site collection will remain the one selected here.
Template	Template to use for the new site collection.
Time zone	Time zone to use for the new site collection.
Administrator	Primary site collection administrator for the new site collection. Enter an email address.
Storage quota	The number of megabytes (MB) to allocate to the new site collection.
Server resource quota	Amount of resources to allocate to the new site collection.
Store site collection URL in	Variable to store the URL of the new site collection.

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