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How do you make a calendar event repeat every year?

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I'm building a flow to add birthdays to a M365 Group calendar. I'm not seeing a way for PowerAutomate to make these reoccur every year.

SUPER simple request that should be available out of the box but I'm betting it's either not at all possible or would take a day of building a child flow just to tik a box in Outlook calendar 🫤

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@anthonys123

I am confused in Create event (V4) there is a setting as below:
I hope that helps. I assume you are okay with the rest of the flow.

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Andrew

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Well poop. That is not present in a M365 Group Event.

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For anyone looking to create a repeating event, like a birthday or anniversary, or holiday, I've found a solution that's working for me.

I was able to create an event using Create O365 Group Event. I then went to the calendar and manually set that event to repeat every year. Using Graph API, I could find this event and see the relevant values needed to make it repeat: "recurrence" and "range".

Using the O365 Group Send HTTP Request action, I could PATCH the event with these desired values.

{ "recurrence": { "pattern": { "type": "absoluteYearly", "interval": 1, "month": "@{outputs('ComposeMonth')}", "dayOfMonth": "@{outputs('ComposeDay')}", "firstDayOfWeek": "sunday", "index": "first" }, "range": { "type": "noEnd", "startDate": "@{triggerBody()?['text']}", "endDate": "0001-01-01", "recurrenceTimeZone": "Eastern Standard Time", "numberOfOccurrences": 0 } } }

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