Updating the RSVP status from Outlook calendar responses?

Gurer Burchill
Gurer Burchill
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We record a lot of meetings as events on Raiser's Edge. I was wondering if there is a functionality in syncing Raiser's Edge and Outlook so that the RSVP responses people give to the calendar event get automatically registered on RE alongside the date of the action.

I currently do this manually - going to each participant and updating their RSVP status. Please tell me there is a better way!!

Thank you in advance!

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  • Austen Brown
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    @Gurer Burchill - Depending on what's available within O365 APIs and Power Automate connector for Outlook, this may be possible. You'd definitely have to do some investigating to know for sure, and then potentially build a PA flow to take the information back into RE.

  • Faith Murray
    Faith Murray
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    @Gurer Burchill
    If you are needing to record this in Events, would it be possible to change up the workflow? Could you offer the initial RSVP as an Event form in NXT rather than an Outlook invitation? If you are needing certain functionalities from Outlook, such as Attachments and Reminders, could you move that down the process - perhaps as a follow-up email to those who have already RSVP'd? It would seem easier, to me, to pull an email list from NXT for a follow-up email, than to have to manually update participant registrants one at a time.

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