Getting Started with Microsoft Graph and the Calendar API

Key Takeaways

hello everyone thank you for joining us once again on we're going to talk about the calendar API today with Victoria hi Gina thank you everyone for watching so Victoria how about you tell us about some of the use cases of the calendar API so sure so the calendar API is really open from so many use cases when we think about what calendar can provide to a user is we have an enterprise scenarios and then we also have consumer scenarios so we really give you the flexibility to create anything that you that you would want ok so what are some of those scenarios that developers are using today with the calendar API ice sure so you can imagine you have a marketing team and maybe your marketing team has specific events that are very important for that month with our calendar API so you can actually set the importance of those those events and so your entire marketing team can see it maybe in May maybe in April these are the really crucial events that you need to attend so you've mentioned marking calendar events is important creating those what are some of the other capabilities that the calendar API is offer yes you can also set categories for your events so if you want to set a different color for your events you can also think about a scenario where you might have a soccer team or a football team and you're running the different leagues so you might want one color for soccer one color for football and you might want to send your team different email invites for for each calendar that's great and then I know also that you're working on some new capabilities for the calendar API that's sure yes so that's our most exciting one there that I'm excited about our places API and that will let you have more room more details about rooms so we've been asked many times oh I want to know if a room has audio if it has video if it has display can you please tell me more about that room maybe what floor what capacity and so our places API will really give you all that information so you can go off and create any solution that you would like and maybe you can integrate it into SharePoint or you can have your own app for room booking that's great so it's a little bit of a tidbit of what's coming next on the calendar API but how about you show us a demo of the capabilities that are available today sure so we have some examples readily available today and some of the examples here are my events for the next week get all the events in my calendar maybe schedule a meeting or also track changes to on my events another use case that we really get from customers is that they would like to organize their calendar better and so we have a way to do that by creating calendar groups and here I will show you how you can create a calendar group so as you see I add calendar groups to my Explorer and then I create a post and have a little cheat sheet here to help me so now I can run my query as you can see summer sport league has been added so what does that look like in my calendar so let's go ahead and refresh and now we can see here's my summer sport league as you can see it'd be a wonderful way for you to group your calendar accordingly and keep it more organized now maybe you want to add a category for your events and you want to have a different color for it so this is the call that you would do for that so I'm going to go ahead and create a category that's called football games so now this color preset 24 it corresponds to a color that we have a list off on online so now when I run this query I can see that football games was added to one of my categories and so what does that look like in my calendar and I go to my settings general my categories so now you can see football games which is like a dark purple and that that was all easily created through the graph Explorer and it instantly comes up something else that you can do is also set the importance of events in your calendar you might want to do this because you want your team to be aware of what the important events are for every day or maybe it's just for the month you want to make sure that everyone participates or not all the important events so we can go ahead and add events here and change the response change the request and now I create a game one with the importance of high so it went it went ahead and created that and you can see here how the importance is set to high so what does that look like in my calendar i go back and i refresh it actually already came up i see here game 1 and as you can see the importance level isn't shown but you can add that to your application or the website that you're creating so you could create a filter query and just get all of the events based on which ones are high important yes definitely well thank you Victoria for showing us all of these demos and thank you everyone for joining us today to learn more about the calendar api's and remember if you want to learn more about these and other API is available through Microsoft graph 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