{"id":756,"date":"2019-01-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/advanced-flow-of-the-week-role-based-security-in-powerapps-using-flow-sharepoint-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:05:23","slug":"advanced-flow-of-the-week-role-based-security-in-powerapps-using-flow-sharepoint-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/advanced-flow-of-the-week-role-based-security-in-powerapps-using-flow-sharepoint-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced | Flow of The Week: Role Based Security in PowerApps using Flow & SharePoint Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s up Flow Fans!?<\/p>\n

Our FOTW This week comes from Geetha Sivasailam.<\/p>\n

Geetha is a Collaboration & Custom App Dev consultant with Artis Consulting (http:\/\/www.artisconsulting.com\/<\/a>\u00a0) a Microsoft Partner, delivering business solutions leveraging O365, Microsoft Business Applications, Custom App Dev implementations and various emerging technologies.\u00a0 She is a Power Platform enthusiast and is passionate about enabling others to expand their possibilities and act more effectively with emerging tools, trends and technologies. Follow her on twitter (https:\/\/twitter.com\/GSiVed<\/a>\u00a0) or on her Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

With no further adieu, here is her post!<\/p>\n

<\/b>Enabling role based security in PowerApps controlled by SharePoint Security Groups has been a common customer ask.\u00a0For example, can you make an Admin screen that is visible only to users who belong to a specific SharePoint Security Group? Yes, you can and this is where Microsoft Flow comes to the rescue!<\/span>
\nThis blog post is an attempt to share an approach for finding out the SharePoint Group membership of a signed in user and\u00a0make certain features or screens of an app available to them.<\/span>
\nPrerequisites<\/span><\/b><\/b>
\nCreate a SharePoint security group with members that you would want to use for role based security in your PowerApps App and navigate to the group settings .<\/span>
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\nAnd enable \u201cEveryone\u201d access to view the members of this group\"\"
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\nWe will be creating a Flow to check group membership using a SharePoint HTTP REST call. Users triggering the Flow from your app may not necessarily have admin privileges to read group membership details. To enable all users to read group membership it is necessary to allow \u201cEveryone\u201d to view\u00a0members of the security group.<\/span>
\nSteps<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n