Small Tips and Tricks : Power Platform – Power Automate – simple Power Automate to get site group Id from group display name

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Today new small tip and trick. Today’s tip regarding Power Automate.

Details / Background

• We were automating the process of adding selected user to given group for our organization users
• Here we maintained one list in our SharePoint online site with following schema
  • User – Person and Group – only Persons are allowed
  • Group – Person and Group – only Groups are allowed
• Here respective selected User in a list will get added to given selected Group from list
• We need groupid to add user to respective group
• To get group id we need to get all groups and find our group which is added in list and get group id
• So here small tip – how to get site group Id from group display name in Power Automate

Detailed steps – Power Automate

• For demo purpose we will create – “Instant cloud flow“, so that we could trigger it manually as

• After creating “Instant cloud flow” we have an manual trigger as

• As we select “Manually trigger a flow“, we are ready to edit the flow

• Next step is too add an action – “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint“. We have very good article on calling SharePoint REST API from Power Automate – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/07/12/power-platform-power-automate-calling-sharepoint-rest-api/
• search for text “http” and select action – “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint“

• Once we added an action – “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint“, we are read to use the REST API to get all the sitegroups
• To get group Id we need group display name
• For our SharePoint site we have following groups as

• Here for demo purpose we will use hard-coded group for now – ‘Demo Members’
• REST API to get all the site groups with filter on “LoginName” (group display name) – _api/web/sitegroups?$filter=LoginName eq ‘Demo Members’&$select=Id&top=1

_api/web/sitegroups?$filter=LoginName eq '<Group Name>'&$select=Id&top=1

• Following our respective action – “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint“

• We are ready to test the flow
• Test the flow
• As flow get executed successfully, the above action returns the group id as

• Next, we could use either “Select” or “Compose” action to get the respective group Id from an output of action – “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint“
• We have a separate article to get / know the Group Membership ID, please have a look – Microsoft 365 : SharePoint Online – Get the Group Membership ID from UI / Fetching all the users of SharePoint group using REST API

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