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SimonMarkEdwards
Apr 01, 2021Copper Contributor
Sharepoint button to run a Power Automate flow.
I am pulling my hair out here. (Well, what little I have left!) I am very new to Sharepoint Online / O365. But I have sucessfully used Power Automate to create a flow, which collects file metada...
RobElliott
Apr 01, 2021Silver Contributor
SimonMarkEdwards it's not a url you need, it's the ID of the flow. You get this from the main screen of the flow as follows:
If your button is in a document library or the Site Pages library then the trigger in your flow needs to be "For a selected file". If the button is in a list then the trigger should be "For a selected item".
You then need a single line of text column in your list/library and format it with the JSON below. You'll see the ID on the actionsParams line; you'll need to change this to your flow's ID and also change the header text and run flow button text to whatever you want and also change the txtContent line (the text on the button). And of course you change the style to however you want it to look. You'll notice that I've got the visibility as conditional based on another column (set to Yes in the flow):
{
"$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
"elmType": "button",
"txtContent": "Publish to Teams",
"customRowAction": {
"action": "executeFlow",
"actionParams": "{\"id\": \"021ec4e0-8f85-46b3-a557-a4456960a4eb\",\"headerText\":\"All Things REI\",\"runFlowButtonText\":\"Publish Now\"}"
},
"style": {
"background-color": "#008082",
"color": "white",
"border-radius": "0 15px",
"visibility": "=if(([$PublishedToTeams] == 'Yes'),'hidden','visible')"
}
}
The end result of the above formatting looks like this. Click the button and flow will start:
I hope that has prevented you going bald.
Rob
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Monty Evans
Jan 30, 2024Copper Contributor
RobElliott This is some great information. How do you pass in extra parameters to the flow? Like an ID or something like that? Items in the list that might be needed to run the flow...
Thanks,
Monty