How to get today's schedule for a particular user using EWS

Aspose.Email Product Family
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What is the right way to get the calendar information for a single email address using EWS? I found ListAppointments() but that seems to get the entire directory. I would like to just find a single person with a datetime range to see what they have going on today.

Thanks,
Josh

2

Hi Josh,


Thank you for writing to Aspose Support team.

We have looked into it and couldn’t find any relevant method for listing appointments for a specific user. The ExchangeQueryBuilder could be of help to us in this regard, but it seems the search feature on From/To fields in this case is not working for some reason. Could you please share with us if you want to search by organizer or attendees?
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Thank you for the quick response. The reason I want to do this is to show the schedule of an employee on our webpage. I’d like users to see their free/busy times for today so they can quickly see what that person is doing today without having to go to outlook and create a dummy appointment just to view their schedule. Does that make sense?

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Hi Josh,


You can use the following sample code for this purpose. Please try it at your end and let us know your feedback.

Sample Code:

ExchangeQueryBuilder builder = new ExchangeQueryBuilder();

builder.InternalDate.On(DateTime.Today);

IEWSClient client = GetAsposeEWSClient1();

ExchangeMailboxInfo mi = client.GetMailboxInfo("user@domain.com");

Appointment[] appts = client.ListAppointments(mi.CalendarUri, builder.GetQuery());

Console.WriteLine(appts.Count());

foreach(Appointment app in appts)
{
Console.WriteLine(app.StartDate);

Console.WriteLine(app.EndDate);
}
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This code does work for my own email address but it fails to read appointments of other people due to privileges. I don’t need to see the internals of the appointment, only that they are busy. The public meta data is all I need(and would have access to anyway).

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Hi Josh,


You need to have access to another user’s mailbox for checking his/her calendar. There is no other way to get this information. Please let us know if we could be of any additional help to you in this regard.