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Article Updated: Feb 10, 2022
Warning
It is best practice to avoid item level permissions in SharePoint.
Built-in Action
There is a Power Automate action to change item permissions in SharePoint:
The problem is that it only shows “View” and “Edit” (actually I think it’s contribute) items.
Under the covers, it uses the ID of the Permission level (or Role Definition) in SharePoint.
Roles Definition IDs in SharePoint
To get the Role Definition IDs in SharePoint you can use this:
[Site URL]/_api/web/roledefinitionsThen parse the XML to get the Role IDs.
Or… You can use this table to get the common IDs:
| Role Definition Name | Role Definition Id |
| Full Control | 1073741829 |
| Design | 1073741828 |
| Edit | 1073741830 |
| Contribute | 1073741827 |
| Read | 1073741826 |
| View Only | 1073741924 |
Use the Role Definition ID in the Action
Once you have the Role Definition ID, you can send the ID into the action using the format:
role:[Role Definition ID]Note: You will need to use the “custom value” setting.
Example:
When you run the flow, the item gets the permission defined by the ID you used:
I thought this was a neat little workaround/hack.
Mike Hatheway 