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I'm taking an email that includes event details (including one required attendee) in its body and I create an Outlook event with those details. I can receive many emails for the same event, each with a different required attendee. If I get a new required attendee for an event that had already been created, I want to updated the existing event with the new additional attendee. If the event has not been created, I want to created it for the first time.

When I create an event I use the Outlook Create Event(V2) action. My original plan was to use the subject and start time that I set for my events to determine if there is already an event that exists with those parameters.

I can not figure out how to check if the event already exists and how to get the event id if it does exist.

Please help 😞

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v-yamao-msft on at

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Hi @thor101,

How do you specify the subject of the event? Does it come from the event details?

I assume that your flow is triggered by When an email arrives. Before adding a Condition, use the action Get events to get all the existing events. Then use the Condition to check if the email body contains the subject, if yes, do nothing, update the event, if no, create a new event.

Hope this could be a reference for you. Please take a try with it on your side.

Best regards,

Mabel Mao

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Hey, @thor101!

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thor101 4 on at

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You are right that my flow is triggered by When An Email Arrives. I get the subject of the event from that email's body. I get all of the details for the event from the body of the email.
I also have a Get Events action that does not return anything in the array when I pass it the same subject that I get from the email that triggered the flow (even if there is another event on my calander that matched the subject). So I'm not able to check if there's another email that matches the subject.

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