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I wanted to use the Find meeting times action, but I need it to only reply with suggestions with a free room to be booked.

The findMeetingTimes documention talks about a locationConstraint, but that doesn't seem to be available on the action available on Power Automate?

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Expiscornovus 33,891 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @FF-29041017-0,

That looks like a limitation of the current connector action. You might request this as a feature/idea on

https://ideas.powerautomate.com

In the meantime, as a workaround, you could use the HTTP action and use the Graph API payload and use that locationConstraint:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-findmeetingtimes?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http#request

Be aware, that is only allowed in a delegated scenario (you would need a token).

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Hi @FF-29041017-0,

As @Expiscornovus mentioned, this seems to be a limitation of the current connector action. And yes, while you can use the Send an HTTP request action from the HTTP connector to call the Graph API directly and pass the locationConstraint parameter, you would need to generate an OAuth access token for the delegated request to go through.

An alternative approach, however, is to use the "Send an HTTP request" action under the Outlook 365 connector. This is different from the "Send an HTTP request" action under the HTTP connector, as this utilizes your existing connection reference to Outlook, and you wouldn't necessarily need an OAuth delegated access token in this case.

I have already used the Send an HTTP request action from the Outlook 365 connector to make Graph API calls, and it works without needing a token. Sharing a screenshot for reference.

In this screenshot, I made the Graph request to the /me/events endpoint, but you can use that to make the call to /me/findMeetingTimes endpoint as a POST request. You can format the request body as it is shown in the Microsoft documentation example: user: findMeetingTimes - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn

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Expiscornovus 33,891 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @sumit_artesian,

That action unfortunately doesn't support the findMeetingTimes as a 2nd segment.

So, it wouldn't be possible to use that action.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365/#send-an-http-request

"Construct a Microsoft Graph REST API request to invoke. These segments are supported: 1st segment: /me, /users/<userId> 2nd segment: messages, mailFolders, events, calendar, calendars, outlook, inferenceClassification"

That's why I suggested to use the HTTP action instead.

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Hi @Expiscornovus,

Wow, I had no idea. Thank you for the clarification. Much appreciated.

@FF-29041017-0, it seems the only possible option is to generate a delegated token and use the Send an HTTP request action from the HTTP connector.

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@FF-29041017-0

The Find meeting times action in Microsoft Power Automate doesn’t include the locationConstraint option. However, the Microsoft Graph API does support it, allowing you to return only time slots where a meeting room is available.

So if you need room-based filtering, the only workable approach is to call Graph API using the HTTP action

Vishnu WR

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Francisco Ferreira 4 on at

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Thank you all for the answers. In the end, the only option is really to open a feature request so that the connector supports it...

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