Following up on this thread, since it was not addressed and continues to be an issue:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4633152/new-outlook-calendar-invite-categories-not-applyin
Here is the step-by-step failure scenario:
- In Outlook, there's a category setup called "Team" that has the color blue.
- Receive a calendar invite.
- Automatically categorize the invite using Power Automate rules:
- URI: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages/@{triggerOutputs()?['body/id']}
- Method: PATCH
- Content-Type: application/json
- Body: { "categories": ["Team"] }
- Calendar invite appears with "Team"/blue category in Outlook inbox.
- Accept the Calendar invite.
- In Outlook Calendar, invite no longer shows as blue/"Team".
Here's how this used to work in old Outlook:
- In Outlook, there's a category setup called "Team" that has the color blue.
- Receive a calendar invite.
- Automatically categorize the invite using Email Rules:
- From: (team member email)
- Assign it to the "Team" category
- Calendar invite appears with "Team"/blue category in Outlook inbox.
- Accept the Calendar invite.
- In Outlook Calendar, invite shows as blue/"Team".
In all previous outlook versions since the dawn of categorization, when you categorize the invite email, the corresponding invite in the calendar also takes the same categorization.
Currently, the only way to categorize the event in the calendar is to go to the calendar and change the category from the calendar. This is extremely cumbersome, especially when the event is on a different day/week/month.
This situation is completely unacceptable, Microsoft. In a massively meeting driven environment, this is a huge burden. Categorizations are broken.
Please address this. This is a huge user experience issue.
