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Andre Siregar
Sep 21, 2020Brass Contributor
Microsoft Lists - how to move?
Is there a way to move a List, e.g. from my personal space to an Office365 Group? There does not seem to be a way to do this other than using workaround of export & import to Excel. However,...
HelloBenTeoh
Mar 02, 2023Bronze Contributor
An option is to use Power Automate to migrate your data across. This is a basic run down of what you need to do.
Note: For some fields (e.g. multi choice drop downs etc, images etc) you'll need to add some extra functionality in but this should get you started.
Step 1: Create your new list, based on your original list
This will replicate the columns for you.
In Microsoft Lists
- Select New list
- Select From existing list
- Select My lists in the "Select a team or site" column
- Select the list you want to copy
- Select Next
- Enter the name, description, color and icon of the new list. (If you want to use the same name, it will initially have an error saying "List already exist")
- In the 'Save to' dropdown, select the location for your new list (once changed, the error will disappear)
Step 2: Set up your flow in Power Automate
- Select Create
- Select Manually trigger a flow
- Add the action Get Items (SharePoint)
- For Site Address, select Enter custom value
- You will need to copy/paste your personal list location. You can get this by opening your original list. From the url, copy everything in https://[your-domain].sharepoint.com/personal/[username_domain]
- For List Name, select original list
- For Site Address, select Enter custom value
- Add the action Create Item (SharePoint) - this will also create an Apply to each action for you
- For Site Address, select the site of the new list
- For List name, select the new list
- For each of the fields, select the matching field in the list that pops up under Get Items
- Save and test!
Grant Taylor
Mar 03, 2023Brass Contributor
Thank you! (Had a couple of columns that claimed to be read-only, and pictures didn't come, but MUCH better than totally recreating the list. Thank you very much!
- Grant TaylorMar 03, 2023Brass ContributorNo, links, as it turns out.
- spepper2165Mar 03, 2023Copper ContributorDid your list contain uploaded attachments?