Is there an API or TaskLauncher to create calendar appointments/tasks in WP7 Mango? I see that there is now readonly access to appointments, but how can I programatically create new ones?
You can't add new appointments through a third-party application (using the public SDK). Appointment aggregation (listing) is pretty much the extent of its integration with your application.
You can control the user's Windows Live calendar and those appointments will show up. There is no API support but it's not hard to capture traffic with Fiddler while you manipulate the calendar using the Windows Live Mail client. This is how I reverse engineered the SkyDrive interface for direct control not involving a browser. I can help you with getting a WL token if you like.
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can Oauth be used in script lab(custom made) for authentication and can it be used to access and fetch outlook contacts ?
if yes then how is it possible ?
Outlook web add-ins work under the context of currently selected item in Outlook. So, the ScriptLab add-in was developed for playing with APIs for the current item (OfficeJS) and getting sample pieces of code. If you need to access other items/contacts I'd suggest using MS Graph API instead or EWS (discontinued with a time) as well as Outlook REST API.
We would like to create a google Calendar add-on/plugin/extension that will let us push the event to our cloud hosted application when creating or editing an event in Google calendar.
We have a cloud hosted application that our clients use. One of the features in our application is events. Our clients would like to have this feature wherein they can push any event from their Google Calendar to our application. We have been trying and searching but while its possible to create such add-ons for gmail and google docs, we cannot find anything for calendar. It will help if someone can point us to a way by which we can achieve this. Thanks.
I'm currently working on a project where I'm sending and updating Appointsments. I would like to do this without the use of ActiveX since I don't want to be limited to IE. I've been googeling for quite some time now, but I couldn't find anything that helped, so here's my question. Is there any way I can access or update appointments without the use of ActiveX.
We also have access to the OutlookWebApp, so maybe there's an interface there. Would be great if someone had an idea. Thanks in advance and
Greetings Chris
You can use Exchange Web Services (web or desktop app) or the EWS Managed API (desktop app only) to access data in Exchange Mailboxes: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj162981.aspx.
If you are working with Office 365 mailboxes you can use the Outlook REST or Microsoft Graph APIs: https://dev.outlook.com/
If your solution requires a UI in Outlook Online (OWA) then you can access contextual data (i.e. the current email or appointment) with an Outlook Add-in (you can use EWS requests from it as well): https://dev.outlook.com/reference/add-ins/
I am about to build a simple webapp that has several tasks, each of which has got a due date.
I would like this webapp to automatically sync with Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar - 2-way integration would be a plus.
The webapp is built on a LAMP server.
What's the cleverest way I can go about this from a point of view of limiting the workload as much as possible?
And also, is that even possible? I wasn't able to find an API for Outlook or Apple Calendar.
Is CalDev the answer? Is there any product/software that will do that automatically, so that I need only to sync with it and it will do the rest?
Thanks.
You could do the following:
Synchronize your proprietary calendar with Google Calendar (make this your "master calendar") using the GCal API; if your application can produce a valid ICS file then you can import it directly to Google Calendar. As this feature is discontinued by Google you can use some online WebDAV based import/export service (I use for this Synqya)
Use the WebDAV access to the Google Calendar to synchronize Outlook and Apple Calendar with it using their calendar subscription features (this would be one way sync). If you need secured access to GCal and 2-way sync, it will involve further steps.
A recent Ars Technica article rekindled my interest in WebOS so I was looking at the Services API (because I'm interested in building a replacement calendar app). I discovered the following text at the top of the calendar services API documentation:
Note: To prevent unauthorized use of
private user data, this API provides
access only to records created by your
application; that is, you cannot
access records owned by another
application.
What is the point of even having an API if you can't access data created by other applications? At that point there would be no reason for me to use their API rather than building the data storage myself. Am I missing something? Can any WebOS developers weigh in on this?
P.S. If they named their os "WebOS" you would think they'd know something about sane URLs. Check out that ridiculous calendar api doc url!!
The reason for the limited access is because of security, but not just that. Some services have agreements that limit how their data can be used. For example, having an API that would let a random webOS app access your Facebook calendar data would be working around the FaceBook terms of service that control how that data can be used. The same applies to LinkedIn, Google Calendar, and any other service from which the system is pulling information.
If you just need to post an occasional event, there's a better API to use that lets you cross-launch the calendar app with data that the user can accept into their own calendar. That way, you don't create your own bucket, but the user has to manually accept the event.
The reason to use the calendar APIs is to expose your own data to the user of the device. FlightView, for example, uses it to publish a calendar to the user of upcoming flights that he or she is interested in, and if those get rescheduled, it can automatically change them. The Fandango app uses this to push movie times for theaters the user likes into their calendar view. There's lots of possibilities.