Do more with Flow Send an HTTP Request to SharePoint and Site Designs

[Alan Marshall]

I've been using Site Designs and Scripts to provision SharePoint sites with pre-set document libraries, lists and themes but there are still lots of provisioning things that are missing to create a complete site template.

This is where "Send an HTTP Request to SharePoint" Flow action comes in. 

As part of the Site Script, I can call a Flow to complete further actions including calling out to some PnP code in Azure.  In this Flow, I can now use this new action to call any SharePoint API request; my first experiment was with creating a Folder in the base document library which worked great.

Next steps are to see if adding content types and other typical configurations work.  And then I need to ask myself if I should do this in Flow or custom code.

[#2]

Great info thanks for sharing!

[#3]

Hello Alan,

After constructing such a request do you know how to get the output of the request as input to the next flow step?

Thanks

[#4]

I added a request to retrieve items from a list. Then as a next step I added data operation "Parse JSON" where I provided a sample json response to create the schema and then I was able to add a "Apply to each" to do some business logic. Not sure if there was a better way.

[#5]

For getting the output, I've used the following with a variable

body('Get_Item_Content_Type')['d']['ContentTypeId']

"Get_Item_Content_Type"

This is the name of the action "Send HTTP Request..."

[#6]

Hi @Alan Marshall ,

Were you able to figure out how to add content types to a list or library with this method?  I am trying to figure that out now.

VR,

Brian