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Vladimir Iliev
Vladimir Iliev

Reputation: 1887

Modifying single occurrence from recurring series is not reflected in the data read from the Rest API

When you create occurring event in Office365 Outlook and modify any single occurrence (edit occurrence) the change is never reflected in the data consumed from the REST API. Both recurrence exception is not created (new event) and series master has no single field changed.

Expected behavior is the SeriesMaster to contain list of exceptions (for example by dates), and each exception to be created as new separate event with link to the recurrence head (e.g.: SeriesMasterId). 

{
    "@odata.id ": "https: //outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Users('----')",
    "@odata.etag": "----",
    "Id": "----",
    "ChangeKey": "----",
    "Categories": [],
    "DateTimeCreated": "2015-05-27T13:36:11.9330924Z",
    "DateTimeLastModified": "2015-05-27T13:44:16.2212804Z",
    "Subject": "EVRY DAY INTERVAL WITH EXCEPTIONS",
    "BodyPreview": "",
    "Body": {
        "ContentType": "HTML",
        "Content": "Example content"
    },
    "Importance": "Normal",
    "HasAttachments": false,
    "Start": "2015-04-28T00:00:00Z",
    "StartTimeZone": "UTC",
    "End": "2015-04-29T00:00:00Z",
    "EndTimeZone": "UTC",
    "Reminder": null,
    "Location": {
        "DisplayName": "",
        "Address": {
            "Street": "",
            "City": "",
            "State": "",
            "CountryOrRegion": "",
            "PostalCode": ""
        },
        "Coordinates": {
            "Accuracy": "NaN",
            "Altitude": "NaN",
            "AltitudeAccuracy": "NaN",
            "Latitude": "NaN",
            "Longitude": "NaN"
        }
    },
    "ResponseStatus": {
        "Response": "Organizer",
        "Time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    },
    "ShowAs": "Free",
    "IsAllDay": true,
    "IsCancelled": false,
    "IsOrganizer": true,
    "ResponseRequested": true,
    "Type": "SeriesMaster",
    "SeriesMasterId": null,
    "Attendees": [],
    "Recurrence": {
        "Pattern": {
            "Type": "Daily",
            "Interval": 2,
            "Month": 0,
            "Index": "First",
            "FirstDayOfWeek": "Sunday",
            "DayOfMonth": 0
        },
        "Range": {
            "Type": "NoEnd",
            "StartDate": "2015-04-28T00:00:00+03:00",
            "EndDate": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "NumberOfOccurrences": 0
        }
    },
    "Organizer": {
        "EmailAddress": {
            "Address": "----",
            "Name": "----"
        }
    },
    "iCalUId": "----",
    "WebLink": "----"
}

Can anyone shred some light on this? Currently the whole Recurrence object consumed from the Rest API looks (apologize for that) incomplete and useless (but I'm hitting a road blocks on each step).

Also is there any place where I can directly report issues to the dev team of the API?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1097

Answers (1)

Jason Johnston
Jason Johnston

Reputation: 17702

Exceptions and occurrences aren't actually exposed in the Recurrence object. In order to see individual occurrences or exceptions, you need to use the CalendarView endpoint. This causes Exchange to expand recurring events for the time window specified, and it returns individual occurrences or exceptions. This is necessary because the individual occurrences/exceptions do not exist on the calendar as actual events, they are derived from the series master. If you just do a GET on /Me/Events, you never see them!

For example, I created a recurring event on my calendar, then I modified one occurrence to be at a different time (which makes it an exception).

Doing a GET on /Me/Events:

{
  "@odata.context": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/$metadata#Me/Events",
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Users('[email protected]')/Events('AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OABGAAAAAABp4MZ-5xP3TJnNAPmjsRslBwAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAAAAAENAAAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAC5xYC1AAA=')",
      "@odata.etag": "W/\"KDwUqsV0Dk+rbhNKcQjK7QAAucdOPw==\"",
      "Id": "AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OABGAAAAAABp4MZ-5xP3TJnNAPmjsRslBwAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAAAAAENAAAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAC5xYC1AAA=",
      "ChangeKey": "KDwUqsV0Dk+rbhNKcQjK7QAAucdOPw==",
      "Categories": [],
      "DateTimeCreated": "2015-05-28T13:39:06.310974Z",
      "DateTimeLastModified": "2015-05-28T13:39:21.0300106Z",
      "Subject": "Exception test",
      "BodyPreview": "​",
      "Body": {
        "ContentType": "HTML",
        "Content": "<html>\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<style type=\"text/css\" style=\"display:none;\"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>\r\n</head>\r\n<body dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\r\n<p>​<br>\r\n</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n"
      },
      "Importance": "Normal",
      "HasAttachments": false,
      "Start": "2015-05-28T20:00:00Z",
      "StartTimeZone": "Eastern Standard Time",
      "End": "2015-05-28T20:30:00Z",
      "EndTimeZone": "Eastern Standard Time",
      "Reminder": 15,
      "Location": {
        "DisplayName": "My Office",
        "Address": {
          "Street": "",
          "City": "",
          "State": "",
          "CountryOrRegion": "",
          "PostalCode": ""
        },
        "Coordinates": {
          "Accuracy": "NaN",
          "Altitude": "NaN",
          "AltitudeAccuracy": "NaN",
          "Latitude": "NaN",
          "Longitude": "NaN"
        }
      },
      "ResponseStatus": {
        "Response": "Organizer",
        "Time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
      },
      "ShowAs": "Busy",
      "IsAllDay": false,
      "IsCancelled": false,
      "IsOrganizer": true,
      "ResponseRequested": true,
      "Type": "SeriesMaster",
      "SeriesMasterId": null,
      "Attendees": [],
      "Recurrence": {
        "Pattern": {
          "Type": "Daily",
          "Interval": 1,
          "Month": 0,
          "Index": "First",
          "FirstDayOfWeek": "Sunday",
          "DayOfMonth": 0
        },
        "Range": {
          "Type": "EndDate",
          "StartDate": "2015-05-28T00:00:00-04:00",
          "EndDate": "2015-06-04T00:00:00-04:00",
          "NumberOfOccurrences": 0
        }
      },
      "Organizer": {
        "EmailAddress": {
          "Address": "[email protected]",
          "Name": "Jason Johnston"
        }
      },
      "iCalUId": "040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000006CACEEAA4B99D0010000000000000000100000009478C61D36C90847B5F3C126ACB0A17E",
      "WebLink": "https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?ItemID=AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OABGAAAAAABp4MZ%2F5xP3TJnNAPmjsRslBwAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAAAAAENAAAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAC5xYC1AAA%3D&exvsurl=1&viewmodel=ICalendarItemDetailsViewModelFactory"
    }
  ]
}

Doing a GET on /Me/CalendarView for the day on which the exception falls (note the "Type": "Exception" field):

GET /Me/CalendarView?startDateTime=2015-05-30T04:00:00Z&endDateTime=2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

{
  "@odata.id": "https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Users('[email protected]')/Events('AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OAFRAAgI0miCtL1AAEYAAAAAaeDGf_cT90yZzQD5o7EbJQcAKDwUqsV0Dk_rbhNKcQjK7QAAAAABDQAAKDwUqsV0Dk_rbhNKcQjK7QAAucWAtQAAEA==')",
  "@odata.etag": "W/\"KDwUqsV0Dk+rbhNKcQjK7QAAucdOPw==\"",
  "Id": "AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OAFRAAgI0miCtL1AAEYAAAAAaeDGf_cT90yZzQD5o7EbJQcAKDwUqsV0Dk_rbhNKcQjK7QAAAAABDQAAKDwUqsV0Dk_rbhNKcQjK7QAAucWAtQAAEA==",
  "ChangeKey": "KDwUqsV0Dk+rbhNKcQjK7QAAucdOPw==",
  "Categories": [],
  "DateTimeCreated": "2015-05-28T13:39:20.9676251Z",
  "DateTimeLastModified": "2015-05-28T13:39:20.9676252Z",
  "Subject": "Exception test",
  "BodyPreview": "​",
  "Body": {
    "ContentType": "HTML",
    "Content": "<html>\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<style type=\"text/css\" style=\"display:none;\"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>\r\n</head>\r\n<body dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\r\n<p>​<br>\r\n</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n"
  },
  "Importance": "Normal",
  "HasAttachments": false,
  "Start": "2015-05-30T20:30:00Z",
  "StartTimeZone": "Eastern Standard Time",
  "End": "2015-05-30T21:00:00Z",
  "EndTimeZone": "Eastern Standard Time",
  "Reminder": 15,
  "Location": {
    "DisplayName": "My Office",
    "Address": {
      "Street": "",
      "City": "",
      "State": "",
      "CountryOrRegion": "",
      "PostalCode": ""
    },
    "Coordinates": {
      "Accuracy": "NaN",
      "Altitude": "NaN",
      "AltitudeAccuracy": "NaN",
      "Latitude": "NaN",
      "Longitude": "NaN"
    }
  },
  "ResponseStatus": {
    "Response": "Organizer",
    "Time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "ShowAs": "Busy",
  "IsAllDay": false,
  "IsCancelled": false,
  "IsOrganizer": true,
  "ResponseRequested": true,
  "Type": "Exception",
  "SeriesMasterId": "AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OABGAAAAAABp4MZ-5xP3TJnNAPmjsRslBwAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAAAAAENAAAoPBSqxXQOT6tuE0pxCMrtAAC5xYC1AAA=",
  "Attendees": [],
  "Recurrence": null,
  "Organizer": {
    "EmailAddress": {
      "Address": "[email protected]",
      "Name": "Jason Johnston"
    }
  },
  "iCalUId": "040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00807DF051E6CACEEAA4B99D0010000000000000000100000009478C61D36C90847B5F3C126ACB0A17E",
  "WebLink": "https://outlook.office365.com/owa/?ItemID=AAMkADRmMDExYzhjLWYyNGMtNDZmMC1iZDU4LTRkMjk4YTdjMjU5OAFRAAgI0miCtL1AAEYAAAAAaeDGf%2BcT90yZzQD5o7EbJQcAKDwUqsV0Dk%2BrbhNKcQjK7QAAAAABDQAAKDwUqsV0Dk%2BrbhNKcQjK7QAAucWAtQAAEA%3D%3D&exvsurl=1&viewmodel=ICalendarItemDetailsViewModelFactory"
}

Also, this is a great forum for reporting issues directly to us. As long as your tagging with outlook-restapi, we'll see it! :)

Upvotes: 4

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