Outlook Calendar Delete action

[Ricardo_da_Cost]

What is the proposed idea/solution?

There are two actions: Create and Update. Add a third option: Delete.

How does is solve the user problems?

When my client enters a follow-up date and the event_id doesn't exist, an outlook calendar event is created. Changing the date, updates the calendar event. 

Now the kicker, surely clearing the date field should delete the calendar event. It's natural to remove calendar entries.

I know Make.com has the module but that means having to open an account, building the scenario, etc, etc.

How was this validated?

It's not there 🙂

Who is the target audience?

Anyone using the Outlook Calendar actions.

[TheTimeSavingCo]

+1

I ended up making the automation move the calendar event to the year 2000 as a workaround heh

[Ricardo_da_Cost]

Lol! I did a similiar thing, just my date is 01/01/2024 🙂

told my client, ‘this is not pretty but it works’

[ScottWorld]

Yes, I agree that this would be a very nice feature to have in Airtable.

Although one thing to note is that Airtable has yet to allow deletion of ANYTHING in their automations. There is no ability to delete ANYTHING (unless you write your own Javascripts).

However, in the meantime, you can very easily get the ability to delete Outlook calendar events by using Make's Outlook automations and Make's Airtable automations.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld