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How to build a flow to schedule moving of calendar items to a different list?

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Hi,

 

I have come across an O365 issue. The problem is, Office 365 limits the threshold for SharePoint calendars to 5000 items. If this limit is exceeded the '"Connect to Outlook" from SharePoint does not work. Users would like to leverage Outlook desktop to access the SharePoint calendars but it errors saying that the threshold view limit is exceeded, I spoke to Microsoft and they are saying that unfortuantely there is now workaround for this in 0365.

 

I have SharePoint calendars containing more than 30k (Contains data from year 2011 till date) items so for those, i am looking to build a flow that should run each time the threshold limit exceeds 5000 count and start deleting items from the past years like 2011 and onwards and move it to a different calendar (A new calendar will be created to keep the data) and maintain the 5000 item count on the present list. This way users can leverage Desktop outlook to open SharePoint calendars and keep the threshoold count to 5000 or below.

 

Is there a way to accomplish this via Flow? Can someone please help me out building one? Thanks in advance.

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  • v-yuazh-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    Office 365 limits the threshold for SharePoint calendars to 5000 items, the flow "Get items" action of sharepoint connector have the 100 items limit, so you couldn't use microsoft flow to achieve your needs to moving of calendar items to a different list when the item's account is more than 5000.

     

    I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in Microsoft Flow currently.

     

    If you would like this limit to be increased in Microsoft Flow, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

     

     

    Best regards,

    Alice

     

  • GabrielStJohn Profile Picture
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    Hello, @Anonymous!

     

    If you have already posted your idea to the Flow Community Ideas Forum then you need to post the URL to your idea’s thread as a reply to this thread and then "Accept as Solution" on that reply so other users may vote for your Flow Idea and identify the information easily.

     

    Thank You!

    -Gabriel
    Flow Community Manager

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