I can’t believe this doesn’t have more votes.

Hey James, I think you are probably looking for this one: https://changemap.co/hellocode/exist/task/1457-outlookoutlookcom/

Any progress on an Office 365 Email integration? Much needed and I’m jealous there is already a gmail integration :-)

Integrations get added based on popularity. As you can see from the list, this is currently not near the top :) But of course we do have an API! So anyone with the means can write an integration themselves, which would save you waiting for us to get around to it.

Hi Josh,

Do you have an example of an existing integration that someone has written against Exist and a third party? I’m intrigued to know where that integration code would run and who would host it…?

Alex.

You’d run and host it yourself for your own use. Some examples in the forum: https://forum.exist.io/t/import-scripts-and-open-source-integrations-list/32/6

This would be a game changer for me and make the subscription worth much more than $6 a month. I’d probably pay $30 if there was good integration with Microsoft 365

What sort of data are people looking for from this integration? Documents created each day?

@josh Personally, I’d just be looking for parity with gmail.

@josh I’d be interested in the To-Do (formerly exchange tasks) integration.

Does office 365 provide email? I thought that was part of Outlook, which is a separate suggestion: https://changemap.co/hellocode/exist/task/1457-outlookoutlookcom/

Which is also a separate suggestion https://changemap.co/hellocode/exist/task/1793-microsoft-to-do/

You can use the reply links to reply to people.

Ah, I didn’t realize the two were considered separate entities here. It seems Microsoft categorizes all of it under the same API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/overview

Since O365 encompasses Mail, Calendar, Teams, Documents, etc., I’m not sure what the distinction would be between this suggestion and any other suggestion specifically mentioning one of its encompassed services. Regardless, I’ll add my vote to the outlook suggestion. Thanks!

Aha! Thanks for that, I asked because I thought it was a bit murky myself. Might make more sense to remove this suggestion then and just collect votes on the individual services.

What about getting support or a way for Power Automate (formerly Flow) to work? https://flow.microsoft.com/

With this, we could then write our own flows to track/count/automate anything we wanted happening in O365 into Exist, and hopefully that’s a lot less work to develop and maintain.

Aha, so this is like a Microsoft-only version of IFTTT? That could do the trick, I’ll look into it. Cheers 🙂

Oh, this is an extra paid product, not a part of Office 365? That lowers the viability, I’m not keen on making people pay extra.

It is included with your O365 corporate subscription as far as I can tell, and free to personal users up to a certain amount of flows. I’ve already written a custom connector for Exist and I have it counting inbound emails already. I will have outbound working soon. I’m not a developer - I am sure you could do a far better job than what I’ve hacked together, but it does work and AFAIK it does not cost anything extra (if you are already on the Microsoft platform).

Next on my plan is to track Planner and To-Do tasks and update that productivity metric.

I’ll have to have a play with it then, it’s promising that you’ve already got something working! Is there a way to share flows, so I can get an idea of how you’re doing it?

Here you go, snag the swagger “Custom Connector” definition and an example (but highly complex) flow I am using to count my in/out.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Atm_YKcHyswDkJUe9gT8q9fldtrghw?e=XTlZwM

I am sure there’s a far, far better way to do this than how I’ve hacked it together.

Also, as an additional plug, it appears as though it’s free to certify a connector once it is built: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/custom-connectors/submit-certification.

Having this completed could open Exist.io to a huge realm of potential data inputs.

Thanks Nolan! I’ll have a look at this in the new year.