Microsoft Outlook Calendar Integration

With the Microsoft Outlook calendar integration, you will be able to add your Outlook calendar events to Simpplr as tiles to bring wider visibility into company events. 

Enabling Outlook Calendar

A new option for Outlook Calendar has been added in Manage > Application > Integrations > Calendar integration, which App managers can check and enable the calendar at the app level.

Note:

The user who enables the integration at the application level must be an Application manager. The first person to connect their account must be the Microsoft/Outlook global admin user, as consent from the admin is needed to complete the integration. Without this connection, other users in the organization won't be able to connect their profiles.
  • The App manager can add multiple domain names (Max limit = 10). More on multi-domain support below.
  • At least one domain must be added to enable the integration for other users.
  • Once enabled, all users will now have the option to connect their accounts.

Accept the permissions being requested by Simpplr in order to use the integration.

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User connection

Like other integrations, in order to utilize the Outlook Calendar features, users will need to connect their accounts in their profile settings. 

  • Users connection is successful only when the domain used is one of the listed domains at app level.
  • If a user attempts to connect a calendar that's not added as part of the Domains list in Manage > Application, they'll receive an error suggesting the domain is not supported.

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Outlook Events listing

Once user level connection is complete, users will be able to view the Outlook calendar events in a separate tab under Events listing.

 

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Adding Outlook Calendar tile

Calendar tiles are a great way for the users to have a quick view of their upcoming meetings included on their dashboard. Once Outlook calendar is enabled at app level and user connection is also done, a new option of adding Outlook calendar can be used to add the tiles on home/site dashboard. Based on the app management governance settings, App managers/Site managers/End users can add tiles to their dashboard.

  • If the Home dashboard is app manager controlled, only app managers can add Outlook calendar tiles to home dashboard for all users.
  • If the Home dashboard is user-controlled, end users can also add calendar tiles to their dashboard.
  • Site managers/owners can always add calendar tiles to the Site dashboard for the sites they manage.

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Calendar visibility and expected functionality

Shared calendars: When adding a shared calendar to your Simpplr tiles, it should be visible to all users whom it's shared with, unless the calendar got renamed after adding as a tile, or someone's access to it was removed via Microsoft. Note if a calendar is shared across multiple domains, it still will not be visible to users in Simpplr if they're connected to a different domain than that of the calendar owner/source domain.

Personal calendars: The events from a personal calendar, if added as a tile, would be visible to only those who have access from within Microsoft. 

Public calendars and corporate calendars: These are not supported by this integration. 

 

Multi-domain calendar support

If a calendar is shared across multiple domains, it will not be visible to users in Simpplr if they're connected to a different domain than that of the calendar owner/source domain.

When a user from one domain, Jim.Smith@smallcompany.com, shares calendar to user from another domain, Jane.Doe@bigcompany.com, then the calendars returned from Graph API for Jane.Doe for  will have the result of "owner = null". In Outlook calendar, Simpplr does not have a unique calendar ID for a shared calendar across users, therefore we are relying on the owner name and calendar name for shared calendars. Since in cross domain calendars, we get "owner = null" from the API, our shared calendar logic will not be supported in shared calendars across domains.

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  • Hi Jason!

    It makes sense for site managers and content managers to connect their Outlook Calendar so that they can create an Outlook Calendar tile, but is there a reason for regular members to connect their Outlook Calendar to their profile?

    If I missed it in the knowledge base, please feel free to just link me that page.

    Thanks! :)

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  • Hey Aileen. It would make sense for an End user to connect their Outlook calendar if they had control over their own home dashboard layout. App managers can enable each individual user to customize their home dashboard, which gives them permission to add any tile they'd like. So they could technically add their own calendar as a tile, but only they'd see it. 

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  • Thank you for the clarification Matthew!

    I'll gear this toward site owner/site/content managers since they are the only ones who have access to a dashboard in our environment. (besides app manager and sysadmin)

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