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Hi. I am relatively new to using REST operations, and I am at a loss as to how to remove a user from a SharePoint permissions group by using the Flow action "Send an HTTP Request to SharePoint."

I have a list of users--who are already provisioned in our SharePoint Online collection--that will be updated monthly with names of those requiring access and those leaving the department.

The list already exists, and I have been able to handle ADDING new users to the necessary groups; but I can't figure out how to (or even whether I can) remove users. Everything I've tried so far has ended with a "Missing required query string: @target..." error, or a more-basic JSON formatting error.

Here is my untrained attempt at configuring the REST action from Flow:

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Help, please!!

(Thanks!)

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Hi @mboonie,

May you try to use the Plumsail action Remove user from SharePoint Group to remove user from a group.

https://plumsail.com/docs/actions/v1.x/flow/how-tos/sharepoint/create-sp-group-add-users.html

Besides, I have seen a blog on how to remove users from a SharePoint Group in SPFx, please check the following link for more details:

https://blog.hubfly.com/sharepoint/how-to-manage-sharepoint-groups-using-rest-api-in-sharepoint-framework-spfx

Best regards,

Mabel

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mboonie 164 on at

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Unfortunately, my company has restricted the connectors/actions that we are allowed to use, and I am unable to register Plumsail apps and features.

I saw the other link earlier, but I had trouble understanding how to map the information in the article to the "Send HTTP to SharePoint" action. In particular, I'm not sure what to do with the content beginning with "let dataToPost = JSON.stringify(..." Do I put the whole thing in the "Body"? (I just tried that--substituting my userID variable for the login name--and received the all-too-familiar "Not well formatted JSON stream." message.)

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Got it!
I took a hard look at the "How to manage SharePoint Groups..." link above and was (apparently!) finally able to map the correct bits to the HTTP REST action. (Adding a user was much simpler, but that was probably because there was an explicit example of the correct Flow action elsewhere that I was able to leverage.)
So, to possibly save others from the same stress, here is a simplified version of the way I set up my Onboarding and Off-boarding flow:

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BR1984 53 on at

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Hi Mboonie

I have try to do the same but i get error on removeByLoginName
Status code
500

{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"source": "flow-apim-europe-001-francecentral-01.azure-apim.net",
"clientRequestId": "2625e643-33cc-46a5-afa0-862a9f5569ab",
"message": "BadGateway",
"innerError": {
"status": 500,
"message": "The format of value 'application/json;\nodata=verbose' is invalid.\r\nclientRequestId: 2625e643-33cc-46a5-afa0-862a9f5569ab",
"source": "sharepointonline-ne.azconn-ne.p.azurewebsites.net"
}
}
}

Can you please spot what is missing ? the user are member of that group

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mboonie 164 on at

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If you look at either the "Headers" section of the INPUTS results (or the "Message" information in the output, which you pasted below), you'll see that there is a carriage-return getting encoded, resulting in a poorly-formed Headers input. (The carriage return is encoded as "\n" and ends up being sent as part of the header.) Thus, the header being sent is literally "application/json;\nodata=verbose", when it should be "application/json;odata=verbose".
Remove the carriage-returns and you'll likely resolve the problem.

-Boonie

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Hi All,

just a note. I tried using the solution but kept on getting errors similar to previous highlighted. Found out if i was copy pasting any of the code parts then i would get an error. When i typed out the parts then the flow would work.

hope this helps.

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Hello - Newbie here. I just wanted to know how to get the ID# in GetbyID in your Uri.

I don't know where in SharePoint site I will get the ID. Thanks in advance.

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Please help. I got an error.

{
"message": "{\"odata.error\":{\"code\":\"-2130575276, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException\",\"message\":{\"lang\":\"en-US\",\"value\":\"The user does not exist or is not unique.\"}}}\r\nclientRequestId: 31b44b28-73e5-4128-b224-620da891c1a9\r\nserviceRequestId: 59a2ea9e-f03d-0000-3fd8-97d38820f7fb",
"status": 404,
"source": "siteaddress/_api/Web/SiteGroups/GetByID(3)/Users/removeByLoginName",
"errors": []
}

not sure what is the format of loginName.

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mboonie 164 on at

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Hi, @Anonymous, and welcome.
You can get the ID/GUID of anything (lists, libraries, views, etc.) by going to it's Settings and checking the URL.
For example, if I select a list from my Site Contents and go to "List Settings" (click on the gear in the upper-right corner), you can find the list's ID in the URL that appears. For example: https://mycompany.sharepoint.com/teams/mySite/Outsourcing/_layouts/15/listedit.aspx?List=%7Bb91078c8-03ae-4289-be1d-2ecd29b3167d%7D
The ID itself is found after "List=". Some menus--and some browsers--display it differently. For example, it may appear encoded as "List=%7Bb91078c8%2D03ae%2D4289%2Dbe1d%2D2ecd29b3167d%7D" or decoded, as "List={B91078C8-03AE-4289-BE1D-2ECD29B3167D}" or even in-between, as "List=b91078c8%2D03ae%2D4289%2Dbe1d%2D2ecd29b3167d".
If it is encoded, you can certainly convert it manually (once you remember things like "%2D" is a hyphen, "%7B" is an opening curly brace, "%7D" is a closing curly brace, etc.). Or, you can use free online utilities like https://www.urlencoder.org/.
Generally, when providing an ID, you include the hyphens but not the surrounding curly braces. Thus, when prompted for an ID, the acceptable format is "B91078C8-03AE-4289-BE1D-2ECD29B3167D" (decoded, but without the curly braces.)
Note that there are some connectors where using the ID in place of selecting from the drop-down list of SharePoint Lists is a necessary "workaround." For example, the Get Items action displays your site's lists but not calendars. In these instances, selecting "Custom value" and then providing the item's ID is the only recourse.
Good luck... I hope this helps!

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mboonie 164 on at

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Ahh, I hate when that happens. That means that it was not able to resolve the email address. Usually this is because they aren't in the group from which you are trying to remove them.
A if/then simple check worked for me. I first set a variable to the email property of the user I'm working with. Then I check the length of the variable to determine whether the email of the user in question exists in the list. If there is no email, I stop the process. So, you can check with something like "if length(triggerBody()?['JBIOEmployee']?['Email']) > 0..." If it is false (i.e. there was no email), then I know not to bother with trying to remove them.

Good luck!

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