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Invite employee A to calendar event of employee B, after A replies to the event

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Posted on by JustinBieb

Hi there,

I am stuck trying to solve the following:

Employee A replies (right-click -> Reply) to an event in the main calendar of employee B (permission-level: view details).
I would then like to create a Flow that adds employee A to that particular event after employee B receives the e-mail (or use a better trigger if there is one?).
Getting user A to auto-accept within that Flow would be a bonus.

I'm just starting out with Office 365 and Flow and especially have trouble finding the ID of the event in the data of the reply/e-mail (if present at all), so I can use a Change Event Action in the Outlook 365 Connector.

Thanks for any advice,
JB

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Hi @JustinBieb,

According to the description of your situation, I'd like to suggest that you could use a Flow like below to achieve what you need:

When employeeB creates an event in the calendar, flow will send an approval email to A. After A approves the event, flow will update the same event. You could get the ID field from the dynamic content of trigger "When a new event is created".

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Mona

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JustinBieb 15 on at

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Hi Mona,

Thank you for your (fast) reply.
It turns out the functionality I was looking for is already implemented in Outlook online.

If employee A forwards an event in the main calendar of B to himself (instead of replying to), A is added to the event and auto-accepts: exactly what I need! I just never considered this option as it feels somewhat counter-intuitive; changing the settings of an event in a calendar with a read-only permission-level, and assumed I would need Flow as a workaround. It motivated me to take a better look at the Azure Logic Apps though, and I'm sure I'm going to use more of it in the future (and to investigate the already present options more thouroughly -.-).

Cheers,
JB

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