I have been playing around with the Graph API to access the shared calendars and events within an organization.
I can successfully query my organization users and the calendar/events for any of those users. What I would like to do now is to generate a URL allowing you to jump to an outlook web session (eg - https://outlook.office365.com/calendar/) directly to a particular user's calendar (that you have access to).
I can see that Events have a 'WebLink' property that allows you to do this with a calendar event, but I can't find any documentation that indicates how you could jump to a calendar the same way.
I did find some old stuff implying that the old school OWA used to allow this but those url's don't look like they work anymore.
I also tried to pull apart the URL's provided when you 'share' you calendar with an external email address and it sends them a 'click here to add the calendar, or here to see a web view' etc email. That looked kind of promising because it actually DOES provide a direct link to a web version of the calendar; but it it includes a few fields in the URLthat I can't figure out (more than likely the external user auth) so I can't reverse engineer it to build one with the info I have available in the Graph API.
URL was of the form:
https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/<userid>#<domain>/<52CharacterHex_ProbablyAHashedTokenForTheExternalUsersAuth>/<WindowsUserSID_ProbablyToRepresentTheExternalUserOrProxyAccessEntity>/reachcalendar.html
Anyone else got any ideas on how I can launch a web session of another uses calendar (that I have access to)? Ultimately what I am doing is creating a small management dashboard (using a summary built via Graph API data) that shows an overview of a collection of user's calendars but allows you to jump into the any individual user's full calendar if more info is required.
Publish to the web. follow this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-your-calendar-in-outlook-on-the-web-7ecef8ae-139c-40d9-bae2-a23977ee58d5
basically
OWA -> Settings
Calendar -> Shared Calendars
Publish a Calendar -> copy HTML
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I can see their calendars on the web when I sign on, can I retrieve this from API? I hope to be able to build an intelligent meeting assistant.
As seen in the Calendar Resource API docs right now:
The Google Data Calendar Resource API is now deprecated and is scheduled for sunset in January 2017. Apps should instead use the Directory API's Calendar Resource object.
As for the suggested Directory API, I think you could specifically use the resources.calendars.get which is described in the docs as (with parameters):
Retrieves a calendar resource.
Parameters:
calendarResourceId - The unique ID of the calendar resource to retrieve.
customer - The unique ID for the customer's Google account. As an account administrator, you can also use the my_customer alias to represent your account's customer ID.
-- where I think you can specify the user to get that specific calendar from.
All,
I was wondering if there is any way that you know of to automatically populate a Calendar in Office 365/Outlook based on what other users enter to their calendar.
The HR manager wants to have a calendar that shows when employees are out of office all in one place. Having a shared out of office calendar people can "invite" makes sense, however he believes people will forget to do this and it wouldn't be effective!
I've so far found no obvious way of doing this.
Thanks in advance.
The closest built-in feature to a global or master calendar is not a single calendar, but the ability to overlay multiple calendars in Outlook's Calendar module. External calendars would of course have to be shared/delegated to you first, but you would at least have a central point to view appointments from multiple people using this method.
However, if you prefer a single Calendar but need appointments from other Calendars in it, then you're definitely looking at synchronization - but you can't synchronize multiple calendars in Outlook natively. For that you'll need to look at a custom solution (such as an add-in) or third-party tools:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sharing/more-tools-and-utilities-for-sharing-data/
You could develop an app or a service that uses Outlook Calendar REST API.
Your service would poll the employees calendars, compare their status with a local database and create new events on your shared calendar using again the Outlook API.
I want to create a one page site that will use Facebook Connect and allow my friends to reserve a spot for an upcoming event. Using there Facebook ID I would like my friends to pay(reserve) a spot and then show their Facebook picture in the spot they reserved. Sort of like Meetup.com when you RSVP except its a one page site and for a one time event. Can I build this only using front-end technologies or do I need a backend?
The answer is yes, you will need a back end system to store the paid registrants, print out a list of paid users to have at the door of the event to make sure they paid, store the user id to be able to display their picture, etc. etc. etc.
I'm working on a service that needs to be able to read items from users' calendars. It needs to work whether the user is using Google Calendar, Exchange, Hotmail/Live, iCal, etc...
I want to do this (effectively):
calendar = Login(emailaddress, password); // Works for #hotmail.com, #gmail.com...
// For every item in the users' calendar extract the location of the meeting
for each (item in calendar)
location = item.Location;
I figure someone must have built some code that abstracts away the varied ways you login to these services and access the objects. But I haven't found anything yet. Any pointers would be appreciated. I don't really care what it's written in (Ruby, Python, C#, Java) as long as I can wrap it.
UPDATE: I've been able to get something working against the Google Calendar using the Google Calendar API. In the process I came across CalDAV and the fact that Google, Yahoo, and Apple support it. I'm going to focus on CalDAV for now, and then probably plumb in Hotmail/Live and Exchange later. I really only need the calendar event times and location so this should not be too challenging.
UPDATE 2: I have discovered DDay.iCal. I'd like to use this as my top level abstraction within my app. But I still have not found anything that will help me connect to, and interact with each of the popular mail systems. Nor have I found any code that shows how to layer DDay.ICal over CalDAV (which, theoretically, would give me Google, Yahoo, and Apple). Anyone?
There is a calendar REST API for Hotmail which is available in beta form as part of the developer preview of the Live SDK. This is also a beta interactive SDK for the REST API which you can try out at http://beta.isdk.dev.live.com. Just try out the query "/me/calendars"
I'm attempting to iterate through all User Profiles in SharePoint 2010 from a Silverlight application that will be added to a SharePoint page. Based on what I've learned, the User Profile Service is different than the SharePoint Website's store of a list of users who are "members" of the site or have ever visited it. To get that list of users, see this question.
I know about the asmx web service that SharePoint 2010 provides at mysite.com/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx, but that doesn't seem to have anything like a GetAllUserProfiles method. The closest it looks like I can get is by iterating through all users with successive calls to the GetUserProfileByIndex method, but that's far from optimal.
Is there a way to access User Profiles via a built-in Sharepoint 2010 REST-ful service, such as what's provided for site links at mysite.com/_vti_bin/listdata.svc/Links? If not, what approach do you recommend to get all existing User Profiles in SharePoint 2010?
EDIT:
The purpose of this is to provide summary profile information in the Silverlight control. For example, showing the User Profiles that have the most "Interests" set in their profile. This task is only possible by iterating through all User Profiles.
Are you sure you want to do this through a web service? Getting all links for a user means 20 simple urls. Getting all user profiles means 20,000 large complex objects.
Iterating through all profiles is something I have done in import code, but outside of that I can't think of a scenario where it wouldn't make more sense to use search - especially when user interaction is involved.