Create Calendar Event with Microsoft Outlook Calendar API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Create Calendar Event with the Microsoft Outlook Calendar API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Create Calendar Event action
1. Connect your Microsoft Outlook Calendar account
2. Configure Subject
3. Optional- Select a Content Type
4. Optional- Configure Content
5. Select a Time Zone
6. Configure Start
7. Configure End
8. Configure Attendees
9. Optional- Configure Location
10. Optional- Configure Is Online Meeting
11. Optional- Configure Expand
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

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Create Calendar Event on Microsoft Outlook Calendar

Description:Create an event in the user's default calendar. [See the documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-events)

Version:0.0.6

Key:microsoft_outlook_calendar-create-calendar-event

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Code#

import microsoftOutlook from "../../microsoft_outlook_calendar.app.mjs";

export default {
  type: "action",
  key: "microsoft_outlook_calendar-create-calendar-event",
  version: "0.0.6",
  name: "Create Calendar Event",
  description: "Create an event in the user's default calendar. [See the documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-events)",
  props: {
    microsoftOutlook,
    subject: {
      label: "Subject",
      description: "Subject of the event",
      type: "string",
    },
    contentType: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "contentType",
      ],
    },
    content: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "content",
      ],
      description: "Content",
    },
    timeZone: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "timeZone",
      ],
    },
    start: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "start",
      ],
    },
    end: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "end",
      ],
    },
    attendees: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "attendees",
      ],
    },
    location: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "location",
      ],
    },
    isOnlineMeeting: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "isOnlineMeeting",
      ],
    },
    expand: {
      propDefinition: [
        microsoftOutlook,
        "expand",
      ],
      description: "Additional event details, [See object definition](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/event)",
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    //RegExp to check time strings(yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss)
    const re = /^(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)T(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)$/;
    if (!re.test(this.start) || !re.test(this.start)) {
      throw new Error("Please provide both start and end props in 'yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss'");
    }
    const data = {
      subject: this.subject,
      body: {
        contentType: this.contentType ?? "HTML",
        content: this.content,
      },
      start: {
        dateTime: this.start,
        timeZone: this.timeZone,
      },
      end: {
        dateTime: this.end,
        timeZone: this.timeZone,
      },
      location: {
        displayName: this.location,
      },
      attendees: this.attendees.map((at) => ({
        emailAddress: {
          address: at,
        },
      })),
      isOnlineMeeting: this.isOnlineMeeting,
      ...this.expand,
    };
    const response = await this.microsoftOutlook.createCalendarEvent({
      $,
      data,
    });
    $.export("$summary", "Calendar event has been created.");
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Microsoft Outlook Calendar	`microsoftOutlook`	`app`	This component uses the Microsoft Outlook Calendar app.
Subject	`subject`	`string`	Subject of the event
Content Type	`contentType`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`texthtml`
Content	`content`	`string`	Content
Time Zone	`timeZone`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Start	`start`	`string`	Start date-time (yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss) e.g. '2022-04-15T11:20:00'
End	`end`	`string`	End date-time (yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss) e.g. '2022-04-15T13:30:00'
Attendees	`attendees`	`string[]`	Array of email addresses
Location	`location`	`string`	Location of the event
Is Online Meeting	`isOnlineMeeting`	`boolean`	If it is online meeting or not
Expand	`expand`	`object`	Additional event details, See object definition

Authentication#

Microsoft Outlook Calendar uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Microsoft Outlook Calendar account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Microsoft Outlook Calendar and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Microsoft Outlook Calendar API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

User.Reademailoffline_accessopenidprofileCalendars.ReadWrite

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