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Sending Calendar Items directly from Alteryx (not as an attached ICS file)

Hi all,

 

I think it would be great if Alteryx could send calendar invites in Outlook (and perhaps other calendaring systems) like it sends emails.

 

Currently the only way to accomplish this is to send it as an attached ICS file on a regular email.  

 

In my use case, rather than auto-populating a Shared Mailbox/calendar, someone has to go into the inbox, the email has to be opened then the ICS has to be clicked on to interact with.  

 

There are ways in Outlook to send an item like this but have it appear automatically without the end user ever seeing the actual invite.  (Our Company adds holidays and other important dates in this manner)

 

So basically I want this functionality available in Alteryx to do the same.  I have posted about it before in the discussions threads, but basically right now we enter our time in HR system, then have to manually enter the same info on our personal calendar in Outlook and any team calendar whether it be a SharePoint calendar, a group calendar in Outlook etc.

 

If Alteryx had the ability to send these types of invites, employees could enter the info in our HR system then Alteryx can get the data feed and automatically populate the other calendar (whichever type it may be).

 

Hopefully this gets some likes.  

 

 

3 Comments
davidhe
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Great idea @DanielG !

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Ham
5 - Atom

Need this ASAP