How to create Microsoft Team via Microsoft Graph API with Owners specified by User Email rather than User ID? - microsoft-graph-api

Question

Desired Behaviour
Create a Microsoft Team, with specified Owners and Members, in a Power Automate Flow using the HTTP connector to make requests to the Microsoft Graph API.
Actual Behaviour
This code shows how you can create a Microsoft Team whilst specifying it's Owners by User ID.
{
"template#odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teamsTemplates('standard')",
"displayName": "My Sample Team",
"description": "My Sample Team’s Description",
"members": [
{
"#odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
"roles": [
"owner"
],
"user#odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('0040b377-61d8-43db-94f5-81374122dc7e')"
}]
}
Source
For reference, the Graph API docs entry for Get a user (which is used to specify the Owner in the code above), specifies the endpoint syntax as:
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}
Currently, I do not have access to users' id or userPrincipalName.
What I've Tried
I am using a Power Automate Flow with the SharePoint For a selected item trigger.
The list includes two columns of type Person where Owners and Members are specified.
In order to get a list of Owners, I am using the SharePoint connector's Get item action on the selected item and then using an Apply to each control to iterate over each columns' values.
Below is the Raw Output of Get Item - the Owners column array is TeamOwner_x002f_s.
You can see that each object only has DisplayName and Email and not User ID or userPrincipalName:
{
"statusCode": 200,
"headers": {
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"Vary": "Origin,Accept-Encoding",
"X-SharePointHealthScore": "1",
"X-MS-SPConnector": "1",
"X-SP-SERVERSTATE": "ReadOnly=0",
"DATASERVICEVERSION": "3.0",
"SPClientServiceRequestDuration": "68",
"SPRequestGuid": "letters-and-numbers",
"request-id": "letters-and-numbers",
"MS-CV": "letters-and-numbers.0",
"Strict-Transport-Security": "max-age=31536000",
"X-FRAME-OPTIONS": "SAMEORIGIN",
"Content-Security-Policy": "frame-ancestors 'self' teams.microsoft.com *.teams.microsoft.com *.skype.com *.teams.microsoft.us local.teams.office.com *.powerapps.com *.yammer.com *.officeapps.live.com *.office.com *.stream.azure-test.net *.microsoftstream.com;",
"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices": "numbers-and-dots",
"X-Content-Type-Options": "nosniff",
"X-MS-InvokeApp": "1; RequireReadOnly",
"Timing-Allow-Origin": "*",
"x-ms-apihub-cached-response": "false",
"Cache-Control": "max-age=0, private",
"Date": "Sun, 04 Jul 2021 06:42:53 GMT",
"P3P": "CP=\"SOME CODES HERE\"",
"X-AspNet-Version": "4.0.30319",
"X-Powered-By": "ASP.NET",
"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
"Expires": "Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:42:54 GMT",
"Last-Modified": "Sun, 04 Jul 2021 06:42:54 GMT",
"Content-Length": "3938"
},
"body": {
"#odata.etag": "\"2\"",
"ItemInternalId": "1",
"ID": 1,
"Title": "View",
"Year": {
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 2,
"Value": "2023"
},
"Year#Id": 2,
"ProgramType": {
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 0,
"Value": "Program Type 01"
},
"ProgramType#Id": 0,
"ProgramName": {
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 1,
"Value": "02"
},
"ProgramName#Id": 1,
"TeamOwner_x002f_s": [
{
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"DisplayName": "User Name 1",
"Email": "user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Picture": "https://my-tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/ExampleTeam/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
},
{
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_2#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"DisplayName": "User Name 2",
"Email": "user_2#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Picture": "https://my-tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/ExampleTeam/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=user_2#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
}
],
"TeamOwner_x002f_s#odata.type": "#Collection(Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser)",
"TeamOwner_x002f_s#Claims": [
"i:0#.f|membership|user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"i:0#.f|membership|user_2#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com"
],
"TeamOwner_x002f_s#Claims#odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
"Team_x0020_Member_x002f_s": [
{
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_3#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"DisplayName": "User Name 3",
"Email": "user_3#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Picture": "https://my-tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/ExampleTeam/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=user_3#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
}
],
"Team_x0020_Member_x002f_s#odata.type": "#Collection(Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser)",
"Team_x0020_Member_x002f_s#Claims": [
"i:0#.f|membership|user_3#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com"
],
"Team_x0020_Member_x002f_s#Claims#odata.type": "#Collection(String)",
"Status": {
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 0,
"Value": "Details Added"
},
"Status#Id": 0,
"Modified": "2021-07-04T03:57:16Z",
"Created": "2021-07-04T03:51:18Z",
"Author": {
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"DisplayName": "User Name 1",
"Email": "user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Picture": "https://my-tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/ExampleTeam/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
},
"Author#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Editor": {
"#odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"DisplayName": "User Name 1",
"Email": "user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Picture": "https://my-tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/ExampleTeam/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
},
"Editor#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com",
"{Identifier}": "Lists%252fMy%2bList%2bName%252f1_.000",
"{IsFolder}": false,
"{Thumbnail}": {
"Large": null,
"Medium": null,
"Small": null
},
"{Link}": "https://my-tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/ExampleTeam/_layouts/15/listform.aspx?PageType=4&ListId=list-id-here&ID=1&ContentTypeID=content-type-id-here",
"{Name}": "View",
"{FilenameWithExtension}": "View",
"{Path}": "Lists/My List Name/",
"{FullPath}": "Lists/My List Name/1_.000",
"{VersionNumber}": "2.0"
}
}
Question
Is it possible to specify Team members by Email in the Graph API request?
Or do I need to somehow get the User ID of each user specified (and if so, what is the best way to do that)?
Update
I tried this HTTP connector GET request in the hopes it would return User ID for each Person:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/site-id-here/lists/list-id-here/items/item-id-here?expand=fields(select=TeamOwner%5Fx002f%5Fs)
But it returned even less information:
"fields": {
"#odata.etag": "\"letters-and-numbers,2\"",
"TeamOwner_x002f_s": [{
"LookupId": 9,
"LookupValue": "User Name 1",
"Email": "user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com"
},
{
"LookupId": 27,
"LookupValue": "User Name 2",
"Email": "user_2#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com"
}
]
}
API docs reference for this approach
Get specific column values of a listItem
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items/{item-id}?expand=fields(select=Column1,Column2)

Answer 1

You can get the user information from Microsoft Graph itself, what you can try out is List Users with filter parameter.
like this:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$filter(mail eq 'user_1#my-tenant.onmicrosoft.com')
OR
You can list all users and do a mail/displayName search(Ctrl+F) on results at graph explorer.
By these you will be able to get userPrincipalName as well as id.
Permission required:-
One of the following permissions is required to call this API.
Delegated (work or school account) - User.ReadBasic.All,
User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All,
Directory.ReadWrite.All, Directory.AccessAsUser.All
Delegated
(personal Microsoft account) - Not supported.
Application - User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.Read.All,
Directory.ReadWrite.All
Thanks.