Data sources

Office 365 Calendar

The Microsoft Calendar data source lets you access a calendar that is hosted on Microsoft 365. Only calendars hosted on Microsoft 365 / Outlook.com are supported – SharePoint calendars or local Exchange calendars are not. Sign-in uses modern Microsoft authentication (Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth) with a choice between a multi-tenant and a single-tenant application.

Setting up the data source

Right-click [Data] or click the […] button and choose [Add data source]. Switch to the [Office 365] category (1) and select the [Calendar] data source (2).

Add Microsoft Calendar data source

Configure the connection

Give the data source a name, then set up the [Connection]. Picking the authorization method, signing in with [Authorize] and reusing an existing connection work the same for all Office 365 data sources and are described once here: Office 365 connection.

Specify details

By default the data source reads the signed-in user’s default calendar. Enable [Specific Calendar] (3) to instead choose a particular calendar of the account. Enable [Select timeframe] (4) to restrict the entries to a date range; otherwise a default range around the current date is used. With [Timezone] you set the time zone the start and end times are converted to.

The [Date format] field (5) contains the pattern used to format the date and time of each entry in the resulting table (default HH:mm:ss dd.MM.yyyy). If you want to process the main part of a calendar entry (the so-called body) as HTML formatting instead of plain text, enable the [Content as HTML] checkbox.

Load data

Click [Load data] to display the preview. The result is a list containing one line per calendar entry, with the columns [Subject], [Start], [End] and [Body] (the subjects are blanked out in this screenshot).

Microsoft Calendar preview

Click [OK] to create the data source. It then appears in the Explorer under [Data] and can be linked to controls like any other data source.

Under the following link you can find additional information in the form of a YouTube video:

Viewing the Microsoft Outlook Calendar in Peakboard.

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