ms_team: Microsoft Teams team

In Microsoft365R: Interface to the 'Microsoft 365' Suite of Cloud Services

Microsoft Teams team

Description

Class representing a team in Microsoft Teams.

Format

An R6 object of class ms_team, inheriting from ms_object.

Fields

• token: The token used to authenticate with the Graph host.

• tenant: The Azure Active Directory tenant for this team.

• type: Always "team" for a team object.

• properties: The team properties.

Methods

• new(...): Initialize a new team object. Do not call this directly; see 'Initialization' below.

• delete(confirm=TRUE): Delete a team. By default, ask for confirmation first.

• update(...): Update the team metadata in Microsoft Graph.

• do_operation(...): Carry out an arbitrary operation on the team.

• sync_fields(): Synchronise the R object with the team metadata in Microsoft Graph.

• list_channels(filter=NULL, n=Inf): List the channels for this team.

• get_channel(channel_name, channel_id): Retrieve a channel. If the name and ID are not specified, returns the primary channel.

• create_channel(channel_name, description, membership): Create a new channel. Optionally, you can specify a short text description of the channel, and the type of membership: either standard or private (invitation-only).

• delete_channel(channel_name, channel_id, confirm=TRUE): Delete a channel; by default, ask for confirmation first. You cannot delete the primary channel of a team. Note that Teams keeps track of all channels ever created, even if you delete them (you can see the deleted channels by going to the "Manage team" pane for a team, then the "Channels" tab, and expanding the "Deleted" entry); therefore, try not to create and delete channels unnecessarily.

• list_drives(filter=NULL, n=Inf): List the drives (shared document libraries) associated with this team.

• get_drive(drive_name, drive_id): Retrieve a shared document library for this team. If the name and ID are not specified, this returns the default document library.

• get_sharepoint_site(): Get the SharePoint site associated with the team.

• get_group(): Retrieve the Microsoft 365 group associated with the team.

• list_members(filter=NULL, n=Inf): Retrieves the members of the team, as a list of ms_team_member objects.

• get_member(name, email, id): Retrieve a specific member of the channel, as a ms_team_member object. Supply only one of the member name, email address or ID.

Initialization

Creating new objects of this class should be done via the get_team and list_teams methods of the ms_graph, az_user or az_group classes. Calling the new() method for this class only constructs the R object; it does not call the Microsoft Graph API to retrieve or create the actual team.

List methods

All ⁠list_*⁠ methods have filter and n arguments to limit the number of results. The former should be an OData expression as a string to filter the result set on. The latter should be a number setting the maximum number of (filtered) results to return. The default values are filter=NULL and n=Inf. If n=NULL, the ms_graph_pager iterator object is returned instead to allow manual iteration over the results.

Support in the underlying Graph API for OData queries is patchy. Not all endpoints that return lists of objects support filtering, and if they do, they may not allow all of the defined operators. If your filtering expression results in an error, you can carry out the operation without filtering and then filter the results on the client side.

See Also

ms_graph, az_group, ms_channel, ms_site, ms_drive

Microsoft Graph overview, Microsoft Teams API reference

Examples

## Not run: 

myteam <- get_team("my team")
myteam$list_channels()
myteam$get_channel()
myteam$get_drive()

myteam$create_channel("Test channel", description="A channel for testing")
myteam$delete_channel("Test channel")

# team members
myteam$list_members()
myteam$get_member("Jane Smith")
myteam$get_member(email="[e-mail]")


## End(Not run)

Microsoft365R documentation built on May 31, 2023, 6:10 p.m.