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RyanHuffman
Qrew Cadet
4 years ago

Pipeline(s) for Individual Outlook Calendars

I have users who would like to sync their personal scheduling (event) calendar in our app to their Outlook calendars and it seems like a pipeline is the way to go but because of the way Outlook connec...
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BlakeHarrison
Qrew Captain
Currently, Pipelines doesn't support shared calendars in Outlook. If you need the Pipeline to create the event automatically, you'll have to connect to each Outlook account individually. Alternatively, you could connect to a single 'administrator' Outlook account and have the Pipeline setup to sync events from Quickbase, with the appropriate employees added as Attendees. Your users would need to accept those, but it would certainly be less maintenance.

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Blake Harrison
bharrison@datablender.io
DataBlender - Quickbase Solution Provider
Atlanta GA
404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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RyanHuffman's avatar
RyanHuffman
Qrew Cadet
4 years ago

Thanks Blake! 

So in your alternative scenario, I would technically be sending meeting invites to staff rather than simply syncing their personal calendars to QB, correct? How much flexibility does that give me with updating information in terms of both general event info and staffing changes? (i.e. if someone was assigned to an event and accepted the calendar invite but is later removed from the event, can I send a "cancellation" to just that user so they can remove the event from their calendar?)



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Ryan Huffman
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    BlakeHarrison
    Qrew Captain
    4 years ago
    I have not done that, so I'm not 100% sure, but the connector does let you make updates to events, so I would assume it would act just like a calendar event managed by a person.

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    Blake Harrison
    bharrison@datablender.io
    DataBlender - Quickbase Solution Provider
    Atlanta GA
    404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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