Create Event after Find meeting times (V2)

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Hi,

Confused on how to bring in the available times to create an event from the "Find meeting times (V2)" piece. Any insight on how to enter the start and end time would be appreciated. Also, is there a way to buffer the event 30-minutes before and 30-minutes after while checking availability?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi @ez1138 !
I believe a valid date time input format is ISO 8601 referenced in UTC timeZone (yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ)

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Hi, appreciate the reply. What would the syntax be to add in to the start and end?

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Hi again!
See the following example:
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Hi, not sure what you're referring to. I was referring to the syntax to pull the field from the "Find meeting times" versus adding in anything manually.

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Hi again @ez1138, and sorry for the misunderstanding!
If you configure 'Find meeting times (V2)' action block with a suggested time period, it wil provide back the first 5 free timeslots. So assuming you wanna make reservation just for the first free slot, I would recommend you to delete the 'Apply to each' action block with its current contents, and use this approach instead, beased on the following WDL expressions:
first(outputs('Find_meeting_times_(V2)')?['body/meetingTimeSuggestions'])?['meetingTimeSlot/start/dateTime']
as input for startTime and...
first(outputs('Find_meeting_times_(V2)')?['body/meetingTimeSuggestions'])?['meetingTimeSlot/start/dateTime']
as input for endTime.

So your flow should look like this:
Please also be careful when handling TimeZone value, depending on your current location you may need to adapt startTime and endTime; so I would suggest to perform some tests with some colleagues first
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Awesome. That works great but I do see the issue with the time zone. I'm CST (Central Time). For the input, it's pulling UTC. Where can I change that? I see where I can for "Create Event" but not from where it's finding meeting availability.

          "meetingTimeSlot": {
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2023-08-29T18:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "UTC"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2023-08-29T18:30:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "UTC"
                    }
                }
            },

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Weird anomaly. Even though there's an event, it's creating an event on top of an event when one is there. Basically, it doesn't look like it sees available times. Weird.

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@ez1138
You can manipulate dates in ISO 8601 format and adapt them to different timezones by means of the WDL function convertTimeZone() or by means of its equivalent action block, that is available as part of the DateTime connector.
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Hi, not sure what/how to do that. I just created an event, it still shows UTC. It's right before 12pm and it created it at 5PM. Weird.

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@ez1138
Find meeting times (v2) outputs are referenced to UTC.
This means, either you assign its outputs without time zone conversion to 'Create event' 'StartTime', 'End time' inputs and select as TimeZone input 'UTC', or...
...transform its outputs to Central time, assign them to Create event' 'StartTime' 'End time' inputs and select as TimeZone input Central Time.
Hope this makes sense

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