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Bookings: Drawing free/available data from multiple calendars...
I am using Office 365 (online) and MS Bookings. Inside Office 365 (online), I have my primary organization calendar (me@org.com) and it syncs just fine with Bookings by blocking time and only sh...
Is it possible to use MS connector, existing or custom, to sync an Outlook calendar in an external organisation with bookings to avoid double booking?
jasoninmel the settings are a bit finicky, but I've added a personal calendar to Outlook and bookings respects the busy times of the personal (Gmail) calendar. I recall playing with it for almost an hour before I got it to work the away I wanted it to, and I'm pretty sure I had to do the settings from the Web app. Sorry I don't have more specifics right now, but it is possible for a single calendar. Since Google can send up html for bundled calendars, it's also possible for bundles of Gmail calendars.
Thanks jdwatson, my requirement is bit different. I want to add Outlook calendar of users from external organisations (in a different tenant) to MS bookings so that they won't be overbooked. My understanding is that adding personal calendar works for non outlook calendars, is that correct?
Suggestion made by Microsoft is have bookings and resources (people, places, assets, etc) to be in the same tenant. This is not practical for us as we want to build a booking solution that can be used by other organisations.
jasoninmel This might work, though it's janky: google calendars can import an unlimited number of calendars and then "bundle" them together into a single html calendar. I use something like this for a church set of calendars (like 12 of them) and then serve them all up as a single html calendar link for folks to subscribe to.