I'm working on Outlook add-in, In which we are providing the service for ordering the catering products during the meeting scheduling.
I want to send the order along with the meeting (for which meeting i ordered the products) so in this case i need any id i.e MeetingId So can save this meetingId and order detail in the database.
When i will open scheduled meeting from my Outlook calendar and on the behalf of that meetingId i can get the order detail from the server and i can update the order.
So i'm looking any solution, Please share your suggestion here how can i update my order inside the Add-ins from already scheduled meeting.
On the compose form you may call the Office.context.mailbox.item.saveAsync method and then get the itemId property value. There is no need to call the saveAsync method if the appointment was saved previously.
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I'm trying to query attendance for a Google Meet conference created via Google Calendars API.
I've found that the conferenceId returned by Calendar API > Events > insert it's different from the one I can use to filter in Reports API.
conferenceId from Calendar API --> ["conferenceId"]=>string(12) "xxx-xxxx-xxx"
conferenceId from Reports API{"name": "conference_id", "value": "xxxxxxx_12234XXXXXxxxxXX56"}
Does anyone knows why?
How can I query attendance based on the data returned by Calendar API > Events > insert ?
Steps to reprocuduce:
Insert calendar events (be sure to add conferenceData structure to create also the Meet conference):
https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/v3/reference/events/insert
Use the conference
List activities from Report API and check the conference_id: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reports/reference/rest/v1/activities/list
It seems that the conferenceId from the Calendar event object is different from the conference_id in the Reports (note that the name is different). The activities.list output also has another field called meeting_code, it's also under items.events.parameters:
{
"name": "meeting_code",
"value": "ASDFASFFGJ"
}
This one matches the conferenceId in a calendar event, except that it's without dashes and capitalized, so for the example "conferenceId": "asd-fasf-fgj" in a Calendar Event object you'll find "meeting_code": "ASDFASFFGJ" in the activity reports. So you can just remove the dashes and capitalize the conferenceId to match it to its corresponding meeting_code.
As to why this discrepancy exists, my guess after reading the definition of the Meet activity events is that it tracks different "conference sessions" within the same meeting code. For example, if you join the meeting asd-fasf-fgj it will create a new conference_id until everyone leaves the meeting. Then if the same meeting code is used again a different conference_id will be created to track the new session and so on.
I did some cursory testing and the logs do create a different conference_id every time I joined the same Meeting code. I didn't have multiple accounts to test so I'm not sure if two users can have matching IDs, but I may be close. I couldn't find any in-depth documentation so it would require more testing to figure out exactly how it works.
Either way, to address your immediate concern, you should be able to match the Event's conferenceId with the Report's meeting_code to track the attendance.
Reference:
Meet Activity log definition
I have been trying to automate the process of forwarding an email(with teams meeting link) using Power automate.
I have attached how my flow looks currently.
User submits the form with an email address
The flow retrieves the email address
Gets the events from the calendar
Filters to get a specific series
Forwards the email
I am struggling with steps 4 and 5 to get the specific message ID for the teams meeting.
I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know of a way.
The overall flow
The expanded 4th and 5th steps:
(https://i.stack.imgur.com/DzQ6k.png)
I tried to just copy the meeting id you will get from the Microsoft teams calendar but it didn't work.
This is how my forward section looks like:
The Second Filter Array under Apply to each 3 appears from this view to be filtering to the point there are no matches. Because that appears to be the email ID and not the meeting ID. Have you considered using a Condition instead? Then you can add the Meeting ID into the body of the email in your last step.
Background
Our Training team uses an Excel worksheet to track our online training, listing the date, customer, topic, type of training, type of meeting (Teams live event or Teams meeting), presenter, and moderator. In addition to the information in the worksheet, we create an Outlook 365 meeting for each workshop. The subject (title) of the Outlook meeting takes this format: {Customer} {Topic} {Event Type} {Meeting Type} {Start}.
Goals
Replace the Excel worksheet with an Outlook 365 view in table
layout, eliminating a time-consuming and redundant step in our process.
Minimize data entry.
Do 1 and 2 in such a way that I can distribute the solution to our Training team without involving a request to systems admins or requiring our team to do any heavy lifting code- or configuration-wise.
Problem
I've tried two methods and am getting stuck at the same spot: I can't figure out how to set the meeting request subject equal to the information entered by the user.
Progress
Method 1: Outlook form or template
I modified P.2 in an appointment request in Outlook 365 to be a data entry form for the custom fields Customer, Topic, EventType, MeetingType, Presenter, and Moderator. Another custom field, TrainingEvent, is a read-only Boolean set to Yes when the appointment is created. I use this field to filter non-training events out of the new calendar view. Another custom field, EventID, has an initial value that concatenates the other fields in the order we need for the meeting subject. I saved the modified request as both a form and an Outlook template to test each method.
Both work fine, right up to the point of setting the actual meeting subject equal to the EventID. That is, when I submit the request the meeting is created and all the fields are populated with what I entered. The subject remains empty. I can't find any guidance, using VBA or otherwise, on how to populate the subject based on user entry at runtime.
Method 2: Microsoft Forms + Automate
So I tried another way: I created a form in Microsoft Forms to collect the same data, then ran it through Microsoft Automate modifying an existing template that creates an Outlook 365 event when a form is submitted. Same result: The event is created with all my entered data, but the subject remains empty.
Obviously, I could just ask our team to enter all the separate fields and also the subject, but that defeats goal #2.
What am I missing? This feels like it should be such an easy problem to solve.
I found the answer. I added the Subject field to my custom P.2 (data entry form). In the field properties on the Value tab, I changed "Property to use" from Value to Text and set the initial value to the concatenated field EventID. Voila!
We have a service which syncs our calender with an exhange calender. In the synchronisation process we use the unique ids to identify the appointments. Now we have a customer, which has non-unique UniqueIds.
I used the EwsEditor (https://github.com/dseph/EwsEditor) to inspect the elements and yes, both appointments (same user, same month, same UniqueId, but a different appointment) have exact the same UniqueId.
Both appointments are not created with our software. They are manually created by the user via Outlook.
Is there a reason why the exchange creates appointments/meetings with the same Ids?
Are you saying that an Id has been reused (if so that's possible as it will still be unique). Or are you saying that you have two id's in the same calendar that are the same if so are you sure your not confusing recurring appointments or that fact that the UnqiueId's are base64 encoded so this means the Id's are case sensitive.
That said using the UniqueId for calendar appointment isn't a great idea and you would be better using the GOID property like PidLidCleanGlobalObjectId https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/outlook/mapi/pidlidcleanglobalobjectid-canonical-property
I'm working in a component that syncs our own appointment data with the ones in a selected calendar folder in Outlook.
The first time when our appointments sync to Outlook, the ID of our appointment is stored in the user properties of the newly created Outlook appointment.
Therefore, before syncing each appointment to Outlook, our code has to check if there is already an appointment in Outlook that has their ID. The code is currently looping through the Folder.Items collection and look into the UserProperties of each one of them, this is obviously very slow.
I found this stackoverflow question, which suggests that I can query the MAPITable to filter out appointments that has no user properties first.
However, as more and more appointments are synced to Outlook overtime, the filtered result would become pretty big too.
Does anybody know if there is any faster way to go through user properties of all appointments in an Outlook folde?
I had a similar problem of filtering Appointments using a UserProperty say 'MyUserProperty' of olText type. I used a DASL query which filtered the Folder Items using UserProperty.
string myPropertyValue = "SomeID";
filter = "#SQL=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/string/{00020329-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/MyUserProperty/0x0000001F\" = '" + myPropertyValue + "' ";
filteredAppointment = myFolderItems.Find(filter);
MSDN Documentation : Filtering a Custom Field
Use the Find/FindNext or Restrict methods of the Items class instead of integrating over all items in the folder.
Take a look at the following articles which illustrate how to use them:
How To: Retrieve Outlook calendar items using Find and FindNext methods
How To: Use Restrict method in Outlook to get calendar items