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ReportTo start, I'm an extreme novice to all of this, so I apologize in advance - I know that's just what you guys love to read.... But as many in our field, something was dumped on me from above and was told I needed to implement it. The only silver lining is the people above me know even less, so I could simply say it's not possible for whatever reason. But I figured this would be a good opportunity to learn.
Management is looking to have an Outlook 365 shared calendar created for the department leads to enter details of their respective business area events so they can be advertised to the rest of the population. The problem is, the leads are notorious for skimping on the details and/or providing irrelevant information and generally not adhering to a standard format. So an MS form was created asking for all the pertinent details and the plan was to distribute the form, have them fill it out, submit it, and have it automatically create an event. No need for attendees or invite emails - this is simply to be a static notice on the calendar. I've read about difficulties involved with similar flows when dealing with shared calendars. Is this even an option? If it technically is then:
Problem #1: The form I was given to work with is essentially a bunch of dialog boxes, and clearly cannot be parsed over into a new calendar event. Can anyone guide me in creating a form that would be best suited to this function? Which fields are absolutely necessary? And beyond those fields, would it be possible to have a Description box that would contain the relevant questions/answers that we're looking for as far as other details go?
Problem #2: And here is sad truth - Power automate flows may as well be Greek to me. In a perfect world, with unlimited time, I could take a class to cover all of this. But in reality, management always wants things done yesterday. I see the Create Event V4 flow as the likely starting point. But I think the discrepancies between the form I was given and what power automate is looking for is what is really throwing me off. Perhaps with a more precisely catered form to work with, this would make a little more sense?
Has anyone done something similar? Or can provide any guidance? Thank you for your time.
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