Microsoft Teams - Clone a team

Use the Microsoft Teams - Clone a team action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. to create a copy of an existing team In the context of Microsoft Teams, a team is a collection of people, content, and tools that work together for a specific goal. A team is made up of channels. based on settings you specify. You must set a new name for the cloned team.

For example, your company hosts a yearly event called "Annual Demo for Service Engineers" for 85 members and the organizer uses Microsoft Teams to centralize communication, view calendars, and pull / share files. You want to copy last year's team as a template for the same purpose this year.

Instead of creating a new team and add 85 members manually, you can use the Microsoft Teams - Clone a team action to clone the existing team and select to include apps, channels, members, settings, and tabs.

For more information about the Microsoft Teams connector, go to Microsoft Teams.

Configure the Microsoft Teams - Clone a team action

1. Add the action to the workflow and open the action configuration panel. For more information, see Add an action to the workflow.

2. Select a Connection. If you do not have a connection, see Add a connection.
3. Select the Team to clone.

Note: Team to clone drop-down list displays a maximum of up to 999 teams. If you want to select a team that is not in the list, you need to insert a variable in the Team to clone field.

4. Type a New team name for new team.
5. Select who can see or access your new team from the Privacy drop-down menu.
6. In the Setting to clone field, click Add field to clone and copy at east one setting to the new team.
7. In Output, assign a variable to store the result of the action. You can use this ID later in your workflow to reference the new tab.

Microsoft Teams - Clone a team action fields, buttons, and settings

Section	Field	Description	Variable types
(unlabeled)	Connection Credentials and other settings that enables workflows to communicate with external systems, services, or applications. It's required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.	The Microsoft Teams connection to use for cloning an existing team to create a copy of that team.	(n/a)
	Team to clone	The existing team you want to clone. Note: Team to clone drop-down list displays a maximum of up to 999 teams. If you want to select a team that is not in the list, you need to insert a variable in the Team to clone field.	Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
	New team name	The name of your new cloned team.	Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
	Description	Description for the new team.	Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
	Privacy	Defines who can see or access your new team: Private: People need permission to join. Public: Anyone in your org can join.	Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Settings to clone	Add field	Displays a list of available settings you can clone and copy to the new team: Available settings to clone Apps: An app can be a tab, connector, or bots. Tabs: In the context of Microsoft Teams, a tab is used to easily access and manage data, for example, a file, dashboard, or a URL. Settings: Configurations such as Team picture, Member permissions, Guest permissions, @mentions, Team code, and Fun stuff. Channels: A category-based collaboration space inside a team created for a purpose. Members: Collection of people who belong to a team for a specific work or purpose. Add field buttons selections Selection Description Filter options Filters the list by typing a text. / Selects or de-selects a field for adding. Select all Selects all fields. Add Adds the selected fields. Cancel Discards field selections and hides the fields available for selection.	Boolean
Output	Store team ID	Stores the result of the action in an object with the following variable: Store team ID: Text variable to store the unique ID that is generated to identify the new team. You can use this ID later in your workflow to reference the new tab.	Object