Pipeline(s) for Individual Outlook Calendars

Question

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 connects to QB, I'm having a hard time visualizing how each individual calendar would sync independently. It seems like I would need to set up a separate pipeline for each user connected to their Outlook accounts but that seems like a lot to set up/ask of non-technical users.

Alternatively, I'm thinking I could set up shared Outlook calendars for each individual user and create a pipeline to sync each individually, which at least keeps the management and admin aspects in my hands--plus I don't think I would need to connect everyone's calendars to the Outlook channel. That feels clunky (?) but I just don't see another way.

Has anyone used the Outlook channel to sync to user calendars independently? Any advice or tips would be appreciated!

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Ryan Huffman
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MarkShnierYou · Answer

I don't have an answer but I am working on a similar situation. In my case it is gmail but I believe it is the same concept. My client has access to a Gmail account and that account has access to a whole bunch of different individual user calendars. I have found that in the Pipeline you can search for a calendar, and then having found the calendar you could do an update on the calendar.

So I don't have this totally working yet but if you can arrange it so one outlook calendar user ID has admin access to multiple calendars in outlook then you would only need to have one pipeline connection to that master calendar account and it should be able to make changes in the individual calendars.

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
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http://QuickBaseCoach.com
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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