Using the MS Office 365 Update Events activity
Use the Update Events activity to update events in MS Office 365.
Use this task to update events in the MS Office 365 instance. The call to this activity is a synchronous call where the input data is sent to the activity for processing and the response is sent back to the orchestration.
To configure the MS Office 365 Update Events activity:
- In an active orchestration, open the Activities tab and expand the MS Office 365 folder contents.
- Drag the Update Events activity icon onto the orchestration. The MS Office 365 Update Events checklist is displayed.
- In the checklist, click Summary.
- Review the contents of the Activity Name field, and make the required changes.
- In the checklist, click Pick Endpoint.
- Click Browse and use the Project Explorer dialog box to select the relevant MS Office 365 endpoint.
- To make required changes to the selected endpoint configuration, click Edit to access the options in a separate window. Any changes you make globally affects all uses of the endpoint in active orchestrations.
Note: Additional configuration is not required for this activity.
- Select Map Inputs in the checklist. The XML schemas generated from the selected object of the Update Events activity are displayed as nodes under the request input parameter in the To Activity panel.
- Create a map between the orchestration variables and the input parameter of the activity.
Mandatory Fields: The activity has following mandatory field:
- event_id: This is used to set the ID of the event to update the record at MS Office 365.
Optional Fields: The activity has following optional fields:
- event parameter having following fields:
- Subject: This is used to set the subject of the event.
- Body parameter having following fields:
- Content: Add contents of the text as per the content type in base-64 format.
- Content Type: Having text and HTML values.
- Importance parameter having following fields in which user can set the importance level:
- Low
- Normal
- High
- Attendees parameter having EmailAddress and Type fields which have following fields:
EmailAddress has following fields:
- Address: email address of attendees.
- Name: name of the attendees.
Type has Required, Optional, and Resource values which are set for attendees.
- Start: start time of the event.
- End: end time of the event.
- Attachments: User can add multiple attachments for single events.
- Categories: User can categorize the event as Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Red, and Yellow category.
- Location parameter having following field:
- DisplayName: location of the event.
- IsAllDay: This is the Boolean field which is used to generate event all day if value is True. If value is False, the event is not generated all day.
- IsCancelled: This is the Boolean field which is used to cancel generated event when value is True. If value is False, then event is not cancelled.
- IsOrganizer: This is the Boolean field which accepts True or False value. If event is generated by organizer, this field has True value else the value is False.
- Organizer parameter having following field:
- EmailAddress: email address of organizer.
- Recurrence parameter having Pattern field in which user can define the event generation pattern.
- ResponseRequested: This is a Boolean parameter which accepts True or False value. If value is True, a response is requested from attendees and if value is False, no response is received.
- Type: User can able to generate event as per the type selected.
Note: Values must be provided at run time for any mandatory elements of the input structure. A value can be provided by specifying a default value for element or by linking the element with an input node. During run time if no value is provided for a mandatory element, the activity throws an exception, which is reported by the Web Management Console. If a value is not provided at run time for an optional input parameter, no exception is thrown during run time.
- Select Map Outputs in the checklist. The XML schema generated to hold the response of the activity is displayed as nodes under the response output parameter in the From Activity panel.
- Create a map between the output parameters and orchestration variables.
User has configured the MS Office 365 Update Events activity.
Note: User can also add more than one object as input to this activity. To add more than one object as input, right-click the object in the To Activity pane of Map Inputs, and select Expand Occurrences. Only multiple objects of the same type are supported.