The Outlook Calendar integration allows users to sync their daily calendar events from Outlook to their Rocket.Chat workspace. It also provides quick action buttons to interact with the events, for example —Joining a meeting.
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To access the Outlook calendar on your workspace,
- Navigate to Administration > Workspace > Settings > Outlook Calendar.
- Toggle ON Enable.
- Click Save Changes.
- Navigate to a room and click the kebab menu at the room header. Select Outlook Calendar. A sidebar is displayed with the title "Outlook Calendar."
To use Outlook,
- From the Outlook sidebar, click the Login button to sync your calendar to the workspace.
- Fill in your Outlook login details and click Submit.
- Then, all your events for the current date are fetched and synced to your workspace. Click an event to see more details about it. If the event has a conference call, click the Join button beside it to join the call.
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To disable Outlook event notifications,
- From the Outlook sidebar, click the Calendar Settings button.
- You can disable or enable Event notifications based on your preference.
To refresh the sync,
- Click the Sync button at the bottom of the sidebar.
- While submitting the login form, check the Remember my credentials option so that you can synchronize multiple times in the future without adding credentials again.
To remove your credentials from the workspace,
- Click the Calendar Settings button.
- Click the Disable button for Outlook authentication.