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Microsoft Lists - how to move?
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!
Hello, My List is in one MS Team and I need to move it to another Team. the problem is I have Dropdowns and Attachments that have to go with it. What can I do to make sure ALL of the information gets moved? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
- HelloBenTeohJun 07, 2023Bronze Contributor
parkm23 I’d suggest having a look through your options for SharePoint actions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/sharepointonline/
You may find what you’re looking for
- parkm23Jun 06, 2023Copper Contributor
HelloBenTeoh This doesn't help me if I have to copy the attachments and add back all the functionality. I also can't use the copy of the link because I need to move the original list in full with all it's attachments and delete the original team it was in. Please advise.
- HelloBenTeohJun 04, 2023Bronze Contributor
parkm23 Hey, I haven't tried this yet but you may be able to get some pointers here: Solved: Copy attachments from one SharePoint list to anoth... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)
You'd need to combine this as part of the process of copying your items across to the new list.