Microsoft Teams - Create a team

Use the Microsoft Teams - Create a team action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. to create a new 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. in your Microsoft Teams portal.

For example, you want a new team created whenever a user submits a Nintex - Form. By using variables, you can capture data entered in the online form such as team name and description. You can insert these variables in the Microsoft Teams - Create a team action to give your new team a name and a description.

To add members to the new team, you can use the Microsoft Teams - Add member to a team action.

Important: If you want to create a plan for the team, you must add yourself as a member of the team before you create the plan. Use the Microsoft Teams - Add member to a team action to add members to the team.

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

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Configure the Microsoft Teams - Create 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. Type a Team name for the new team, or insert a variable in the Team name field.
  4. Type a Description to describe what the team is about.
  5. Select who can see or access your new team from the Privacy drop-down menu.
  6. Expand and select Guest settings.
  7. Expand and select Member settings.
  8. Expand and select Messaging settings.
  9. Expand and select Fun settings.
  10. In Output, assign variables to store the properties of the new team.

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

Section

Field

Description

Variable types
 

Connection Credentials and other settings 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 creating a new team.

(n/a)
  Team name Name for your new team. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
  Description

Describes what the team is about.

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
Guest settings Allow create/update channels

Allow guests to create or update channels In the context of Microsoft Teams, a channel can be defined as a category-based collaboration space inside a team created for a specific purpose.. For more information on user roles, see Assign role permissions in Microsoft Teams documentation.

Boolean
  Allow delete channels Allow guests to delete channels. Boolean
Member settings Allow create/update channels Allow members to create or update channels. Boolean
  Allow delete channels Allow members to delete channels. Boolean
  Allow add/remove apps Allow members to add or remove apps In the context of Microsoft Teams, an app can be a tab, connector, or bots.. Boolean
  Allow add/update/remove tabs

Allow members to add, update, or remove tabs In the context of Microsoft Teams, a tab is used to easily access and manage data such as file, dashboard, or URL..

Boolean
  Allow create/update/remove connectors

Allow members to create, update, or remove connectors.

In the context of Microsoft Teams, a connector is any service connected directly into a channel. A connector can deliver content from Microsoft platforms such as Office 365 or Azure DevOps Services, or any other third-party applications such Twitter, Bing, and more.

Boolean
Messaging settings Allow members to edit messages Allow members to edit sent messages. Boolean
  Allow members to delete messages Allow members to delete sent messages. Boolean
  Allow owners to delete messages Allow owners to delete sent messages. Boolean
  Allow team mentions Allow @team mentions to notify everyone on that team. Boolean
  Allow channel mentions Allow @channel mentions to notify or get the attention of everyone who has made that channel their favorite. Boolean
Fun settings Allow Giphy Allow Giphy messages when posting in the new team. Boolean
  Giphy rating

Defines how you want to filter out inappropriate content:

  • Moderate: Allows content rated G (General Admission) by Giphy.
  • Strict: Allows content rated Y (Young Audiences) by Giphy.
 Boolean
  Allow sticker and memes Allow stickers and memes when posting messages in the new team. Boolean
  Allow custom memes Allow memes to be uploaded when posting messages. Boolean
Output Output

Object returned by the action. Stores the properties of the new team in variables.

  • Classification: (Text) The classification of the created team.

  • Created date: (DateTime) The date and time of when the team is created.

  • Created options: (Collection) The options set for the team during creation.

  • Description: (Text) The description of the created team.

  • Display name: (Text) The display name of the created team.

  • Expiration date: (DateTime) The date and time of when the team is set to expire.

  • Id: (Text) The unique ID generated to identify the created team.

  • Mail: (Text) The mail address for the created team.

  • Mail enabled: (Boolean) Specifies whether mail is enabled for the created team.

  • Mail nickname: (Text) The mail nickname of the craeted team.

  • Preferred language: (Text) The preferred language of the created team.

  • Proxy addresses: (Collection) Email addresses for the team that direct to the same mailbox.

  • Renewed date: (DateTime) Date and time that the team is last renewed.

  • Resource provisioning options: (Collection) Specifies the resources that are provisioned as part of team creation, that are not normally part of default team creation. Possible value is Team.

  • Security enabled: (Boolean) Specifies whether the created team has security enabled.

  • Theme: (Text) The color theme of the created team.

  • Visibilityy: (Text) Specifies the visibility of the created team. Possible values are Private, Public.

 Object