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Hi all,

I'm working on a chatbot that makes a booking for you. In one of my flows I want to create an Outlook event with the details of that booking in the persons's agenda. I am using the action Create event (V4) to do that, which needs a Calendar ID of the persons's agenda.

I tried using Get calendars, and using that Calendar ID to create the event, but the action Get Calendars returns MY calendars.

Is there a way to get the Calendar ID of the person running the flow/chatting with the chatbot instead of the owner of the flow?

Part of my flow:

Thanks in advance!

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Ed Gonzales 4,531 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@Lvdk

Hi there. I'm not totally certain, but I think this is a security thing to keep things focused on what you normally have access to.

One approach you might consider is to create an ICS file which you could (probably?) present in the chat for download. Here's a video from @aprildunnam on how to create the file:

Keep us posted, good luck!

-Ed

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Hi @Lvdk ,

If you want to get the calendarID of the other user's calendar in the flow, you should create the connection with the special person's account for get calendars action and Create event action:

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Alice

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Hi @edgonzales,

Thanks! I've managed to do it via the ICS file. It's still too bad we can't directly add it to the calendar of the person, but for now this, I think, is the best way to do it.
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Hi @Lvdk, could you show me how you fixed it? I am currently working on a car reservation application, where I use Create Event (V4) and the mandatory assistant is the car that I want to reserve, and so far everything is going well, the only problem is that the reservation always comes out in my name so make another user, and they are always done in my calendar and in the car's calendar, the idea is that it be done in the calendar of the person who created the event and in the car's calendar.

Cheers