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I am completely new to Power Automate and have kind of been coerced here because of Windows pushing New Outlook. I have a bunch of student project teams that I need to send meeting invites to for recurring meetings.

I've been able to set up everything in Excel, and setup the connection to the data using the List rows present in a table.

For each row I then send the data through a Compose step to setup a recurrence pattern and range for a Create event (V4) step. My compose function looks like this:

json(concat(
    '{',
        '"pattern": {',
            '"type": "', toLower(item()?['RecurrenceType']), '",',
            '"interval": ', string(item()?['RecurrenceInterval']), ',',
            '"daysOfWeek": ["', toLower(item()?['Day']), '"]',
        '},',
        '"range": {',
            '"type": "numbered",',
            '"startDate": "', item()?['StartDate'], '",',
            '"recurrenceTimeZone": "Eastern Standard Time",',
            '"numberOfOccurrences": ', string(int(item()?['Occurrences'])),
        '}',
    '}'
))
 
... and I have every reason to believe that it is working well.  Here are the input parameters that the Create event (V4) is receiving:
 
{"table":"AQMkAGJlNWY1NjdjLWZjNzEtNGVhMC05NTA5LTc5ZWUBOTAzNTc1YQBGAAADOpg_jYqyHk_DH4xPcaZKGAcAIU8ywwmESU2a5Z9ouk1m5wAAAgEGAAAAIU8ywwmESU2a5Z9ouk1m5wAAAhnKAAAA","item/subject":"MECH 460 - Project Team 1","item/start":"2026-01-13T14:00:00.000Z","item/end":"2026-01-13T14:30:00.000Z","item/timeZone":"(UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)","item/requiredAttendees":"xxxxxx@gmail.com","item/optionalAttendees":"yyyyyy@zzzzzz.ca","item/location":"A real location","item/importance":"normal","item/isAllDay":false,"item/recurrence":{"pattern":{"type":"weekly","interval":2,"daysOfWeek":["tuesday"]},"range":{"type":"numbered","startDate":"2026-01-13T14:00:00.000Z","recurrenceTimeZone":"Eastern Standard Time","numberOfOccurrences":3}},"item/reminderMinutesBeforeStart":30,"item/isReminderOn":true,"item/showAs":"busy","item/responseRequested":true,"item/sensitivity":"normal"} 
 
However, I appear to be doing something wrong in the Create event V4. I have pointed to the outputs of the previous Compose step.  An invite is sent but the recurrence doesn't happen and my recipient account is adjusting timezones because it states that the email wasn't configured to UTC timezones.



Here is the output of the body of the Create event (V4).
 
{"subject":"Project Team 1","start":"2026-01-13T14:00:00.0000000","end":"2026-01-13T14:30:00.0000000","startWithTimeZone":"2026-01-13T14:00:00+00:00","endWithTimeZone":"2026-01-13T14:30:00+00:00","body":"","isHtml":true,"responseType":"organizer","responseTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00","id":"AQMkAGJlNWY1NjdjLWZjNzEtNGVhMC05NTA5LTc5ZWUBOTAzNTc1YQBGAAADOpg_jYqyHk_DH4xPcaZKGAcAIU8ywwmESU2a5Z9ouk1m5wAAAgENAAAAIU8ywwmESU2a5Z9ouk1m5wAEG6IAzAAAAA==","createdDateTime":"2026-01-12T02:10:42.3747128+00:00","lastModifiedDateTime":"2026-01-12T02:10:42.8696243+00:00","organizer":"aaaaaa@zzzzzz.ca","timeZone":"UTC","seriesMasterId":null,"iCalUId":"040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000D91D78A76883DC01000000000000000010000000312DCEAB2B13FC448B509FADDEF466B7","categories":[],"webLink":"https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?itemid=AQMkAGJlNWY1NjdjLWZjNzEtNGVhMC05NTA5LTc5ZWUBOTAzNTc1YQBGAAADOpg%2BjYqyHk%2BDH4xPcaZKGAcAIU8ywwmESU2a5Z9ouk1m5wAAAgENAAAAIU8ywwmESU2a5Z9ouk1m5wAEG6IAzAAAAA%3D%3D&exvsurl=1&path=/calendar/item","requiredAttendees":"xxxxxx@gmail.com;","optionalAttendees":"yyyyyy@zzzzzz.ca;","resourceAttendees":"","location":"A real location","importance":"normal","isAllDay":false,"recurrence":"none","selectedDaysOfWeek":null,"recurrenceEnd":null,"numberOfOccurences":null,"reminderMinutesBeforeStart":30,"isReminderOn":true,"showAs":"busy","responseRequested":true,"sensitivity":"normal"}
 
I've been spending hours upon hours on this trying to stretch myself and learn something new but I've hit a wall.

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Hi,

Could you please share a screenshot of your Create event (V4) action configuration?

I am referring to the Microsoft documentation here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365/#create-event-(v4)

Based on the documentation and the available advanced parameters for this action, I do not see any input field or JSON placeholder where the custom recurrence JSON you built can be directly pasted or mapped.

From the screenshots of the action configuration, it appears that recurrence is expected to be defined using the built-in fields such as Recurrence, Selected days of week, Number of occurrences, and Recurrence end date, rather than by supplying a custom JSON object.

Could you confirm where exactly the output of your Compose action is being passed into the Create event (V4) step?