Delete Site Collection in SharePoint Online And Office 365 Using Nintex Workflows

Welcome to an article on how to delete site collections in SharePoint Online and Office 365 using Nintex Workflows. This article will display the action “Office 365 delete site collection” and how to use it while developing the workflow.

This action assists in deleting a site collection using workflow. Let’s see the implementation of this functionality.

• Create a list, Dev Testing.
• Click on the List tab on the Top ribbon and click on Nintex Workflow.
  
• You will see the following screen, to create a new workflow.
• Click on “Create new workflow”.
  
• You will come to the design phase of the Nintex workflow.
• Add the action, “Office 365 delete site collection” either by right clicks on the workflow or by dragging and dropping from the left toolbox.
  
• Now let’s configure it.
• When you double-click on the action the following screen opens up.
  

Configure

• Site CollectionURL: Provide the site collection URL you want to delete.
• Username: Specify the username of the person who is the admin and has access to run the workflow.
• Password: Specify the password.
• Now we have configured our workflow, let’s go and publish it to use it.
• Click on Publish on the left corner of the ribbon of Nintex Designer.
  
• You will see the screen below.
  
• Give your workflow a name.
• Description
• Choose your task list where it should store the tasks, It will be Workflow Tasks by default.
• Choose your history list where it should store the history logs, It will be Workflow History by default.
• Start Options.
  • You can either start your workflow manually.
  • Or you can start your workflow automatically when an item is created.
  • Or you can start your workflow automatically when an item is modified.
• Click on Publish.
• Your workflow will get published.

So in this article, we saw how to delete a site collection in SharePoint Online and Office 365 using Nintex Workflows. This action will help us to delete a site collection after configuration when the workflow executes. We will see more new articles on the actions of Nintex Workflows in the other parts of the article. Till then, keep learning.