How to COPY SharePoint Pages & Templates

Since we can't yet move pages or page templates between SharePoint Online sites in the UI, we have to get creative. In this tutorial, we go step-by-step how to create a Power Automate flow to move any pages from one library to another.

Here's the expression we use to split the page filename from the path:
last(split(variables('pagePath'),'/'))

0:00 Intro
2:40 Creating the Power Automate flow
12:00 Testing the flow
12:42 Setting "run" permission for the flow
14:20 Creating a template
15:20 Running the flow
16:36 Using the page template

[Consy]

THANK YOU!!! I didn't realize I couldn't copy a page in SP Online until (of course) I desperately needed it! I was elated to find your step-by-step video, it worked perfectly (with some tweaks for my scenario). I've never seen any videos from you before, but I subscribed based on this one - very much appreciated! 👏🏽👏🏽

[JodyStrausser]

Great video! I'm new to SharePoint and this saved me a lot of work. Thank you so much for your work on this.

[rawanmusa]

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you!!!

[datayoda]

Keep up the good work Christine. I just found your site and it is awesome. Thanks for all you do.

[andytuke]

From my testing, if you simply go into Site Pages and create a folder called Templates (I'm doing this via the flow first), then copy the file into there it isn't identified as a template. If you do what's shown here, and create a template yourself so it creates the folder then it is. I'm guessing there's something in the background being set to enable templates or similar

[susewho]

Great video and easy to follow - it worked for me! thanks for this.

[AnyaHayes-prsq]

Thank you. Just in case anyone has the same problem I had. When I clicked 'create a flow, ' it automatically loaded with the 'manual' connector instead of the 'For a selected file' connector. When I created the flow this way, it deleted my information in the manual connector. I had to delete the manual connector and use the 'For a selected file' connector, even though after I saved it this way, it changed 'For a selected file' to 'Manual, ' that way my information was saved.

[nandonando]

Thanks a million for this. It's 2024, yet copying a page between sites is so freaking complicated. Wake up MS!

[cfrith]

I follow each step, and every time I hit save, it switches back to "manual" from "for a selected file".

[jarynb]

Is it possible to create a flow that can be used to copy pages from multiple sites instead of just the one initially set? Or do you have to change the flow each time for a new site?

[jamesodriscoll]

By doing this method does the person that owns the template get an alert if I copy the template onto a different SharePoint owner?

[vrushalipatil]

How have you created a measure for ticket submitted?

[nicholesaland]

I've tried it a few times and it doesn't work for me for some reason, despite following each step.

[TimSmith]

This i̶s̶ ̶g̶̶̶o̶̶̶i̶̶̶n̶̶̶g̶̶̶ ̶̶̶t̶̶̶o̶̶̶ sorry, has already saved me plenty of time. I can also use this to keep a Site for templates in development and then roll them out when I get the green light. Many thanks for sharing