Odoo Office 365 Calendar Connector
Ksolves Office 365 Calendar offers a two way synchronization to sync your schedules, meetings and events in Odoo and Office 365 accounts through a simple click. Combined with Ksolves Office 365 Base features, it provides a way to comprehensively manage your schedules and recurrent meetings without any miss.
PROBLEM:
Since Office 365 Calendar is widely used in the business environment, its connection to Odoo becomes a must. A user had to thrive for maintaining schedules, meetings and events at two places i.e. Odoo calendar and Outlook calendar.
SOLUTION:
Ksolves Office 365 Calendar provides a bidirectional synchronization to manage your schedules and recurrent meetings in Odoo and Office 365 account. The user can select which way to sync through a simple click and can even configure and restrict syncing options.
PROBLEM:
After syncing, the user at times wish to see the status, sync time, direction in which sync happened etc to ensure that nothing is missed out.
SOLUTION:
Ksolves Office 365 Calendar gives the feature of detailed logs with multiple fields for all the syncing operations done along with the Advanced search and filter mechanisms for logs analysis.
PROBLEM:
User may wish to sync only latest events.
SOLUTION:
Ksolves Office 365 Calendar gives the feature to sync events X days old only.
PROBLEM:
If user wish to continue syncing events where it was left before.
SOLUTION:
Ksolves Office 365 Calendar gives the feature to continue syncing from the last synced event where he left. User can manage the syncing and keep track of how many records have been successfully processed in Jobs menu.
Features
- Support for recurring items in Office 365 and Odoo
- Easily sync new items in Office 365 to Odoo and vice versa
- Ability to select which way to sync through a simple click
- Manageable through a single console along with other Ksolves Office 365 apps
- User can sync according to their choice with the help of filters.
- Makes use of powerful features of Office 365 Base
- Configure and restrict syncing options
- Detailed logs available for syncing operations done
- Advanced search and filter mechanisms for logs analysis
- Ability to sync only latest events.
- Ability to continue the sync process where you left last time.
Setup
Authentication
Click on Azure Active Directory > App registrations > New Registration
Now, you will be asked to enter name, redirect uri for you App. Redirect uri must be http://your-base-url/office365/callback ( this will be used for authentication ) and now click Register
Now, Go to Certificate & secret and create a new client secret. Copy the value of the Client Secret ( this will be used for authentication ).
Go to Overview and copy value of Application ID ( this will be used for authentication ).
Click on View API Permissions > Microsoft Graph > Delegated Permissions and choose required permissions and then click on Add permissions at the bottom, as shown below
Provide ReadWrite permission for Calendar
This is how the permissions will look like:
Once you installed the Office 365 Calendar module, now go to Settings > Users & Companies > your-admin-account. In Access Rights set ‘Office365 Rights’ to ‘Office365 Manager’ and refresh the page. (Only manager has the right to authenticate the connector, other users will just sync their record)
Access Rights must be given according to the User access. Manager level access can access Office 365 settings and authentication.
User with office365 User can only allowed for syncing.
Go to Users & Companies > Office365 Settings and set Client ID, Client Secret and Redirect URL ( all these are already generated from the azure portal just paste them here ) and click save.
Manager level access(Odoo Admin) can access the office 365 utilities from settings as well as from the side menu.
Click on the Generate Token button as shown below -
Users will be asked to give permission to read and write to Microsoft Calendar. Click on the Yes button in order to proceed further.
Click on the office365 menu > Logs menu , It will display as Token generated successfully.
Office 365 Contacts Features and Working
If you wish to sync only latest events, then you need to input the days in order to sync those events.
Further, if you wish to filter your events then you can choose a domain filter to view your results. This is only applicable from Odoo to Office 365.
If you wish to sync deleted meetings as well you can choose the below checkbox.
You can also sync meeting from a perticular category using below feature.
Next you can choose appropriate syncing direction.
Syncing Odoo - Outlook Contacts
Job Processes Working
For any unsuccessful job, you can see how many records are processed and the corresponding reasons for the failures.
Syncing will resume from the last record processed, and if you want to sync all over again you can delete the entry and start syncing.
Automatic Syncing
To activate cron follow the following steps -
Go to Settings, and then Activate the developer mode
Now go to Technical > Scheduled Actions
You will see two crons 'Run Office 365 Calendar Import Cron' and 'Run Office 365 Calendar Export Cron' for importing and exporting respectively.
If you wish to export Odoo calendar events to Microsoft calendar automatically, click on Run Office 365 Calendar Export Cron.
You can activate the cron by clicking the Off button, as shown below
If you wish to import Microsoft calendar events to Odoo calendar automatically, click on Run Office 365 Calender Import Cron.
You can activate the cron by clicking the Off button, as shown below
Now syncing for all the users will be performed after the given interval.
In order to switch the permission, chose the permissions as per you choice.
Note: You must provide both Read and ReadWrite permission for your apps.
This is how the permissions will look like:
Access Rights must be given according to the User access. Manager level access can access Office 365 settings and authentication.
User with office365 User can only allowed for syncing.
You will be asked to give permission for the apps you have installed with this base module. Click on the Yes button in order to proceed further.
Click on the office365 menu > Logs menu , It will display as Token generated successfully.
If you wish to sync only latest events, then you need to input the days in order to sync those events.
Further, if you wish to filter your events then you can choose a domain filter to view your results. This is only applicable from Odoo to Office 365.
If you wish to sync deleted meetings as well you can choose the below checkbox.
You can also sync meeting from a perticular category using below feature.
Next you can choose appropriate syncing direction.
Go to Settings, and then Activate the developer mode.
You will see two crons 'Run Office 365 Import Cron' and 'Run Office 365 Export Cron' for importing and exporting respectively.
If you wish to export Odoo calendar events to Microsoft calendar automatically, click on 'Run Office 365 Export Cron'.
You can activate the cron by clicking the Off button, as shown below
If you wish to import Microsoft calendar events to Odoo calendar automatically, click on 'Run Office 365 Import Cron'.
You can activate the cron by clicking the Off button, as shown below
Now syncing for all the users will be performed after the given interval.
Our Releases
Latest Release 1.1.6
■ Fix - Issue while exporting meeting with negative timezone.
Latest Release 1.1.6
■ Fix - Issue while exporting meeting with negative timezone.
Latest Release 1.1.6
■ Fix - Issue while exporting meeting with negative timezone.
Latest Release 1.1.5
■ Fix - Cannot update private meeting of users using cron.
Latest Release 1.1.4
■ Enhancement - Realtime syncing optimized.
Latest Release 1.1.3
■ Fix - Meeting is not imported if Show as is set other than free or busy.
Latest Release 1.1.2
■ Enhancement - Code Improvement
Latest Release 1.1.1
■ Enhancement - Syncing recurring events with no end date
■ Fix - User able to sync meetings that he is not attending
■ Fix - Portal user able to sync while syncing through cron
Latest Release 1.0.1
■ Fix - Created separate cron for importing and exporting calendar events.
Frequently Asked Question
Yes, our app works with Odoo Enterprise as well as Community.
Please drop email at sales@ksolves.com or raise a ticket through Odoo store itself.
Yes, we do provide free support for 90 days for any queries or any bug/issue fixing.
No, multi-company is not supported.
Ksolves will provide FREE 90 days support for any doubt, queries, and bug fixing (excluding data recovery) or any type of issues related to this module. This is applicable from the date of purchase.
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