Exchange Online cancel calendar item

Cancels a calendar item in Exchange Online.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
Calendar item ID

Specify the ID of the calendar item to cancel.

Cancellation message

Specify the cancellation message in either plain text or rich text. Rich text supports HTML text formatting and does not include tables and images.

Use the Rich Text editor to display formatted text, pictures, hyperlinks and HTML in a workflow action. Click in the email body area to enter or edit content.

  • Due to some security enhancements done to the rich text editor some HTML tags are no longer supported. For more information, see HTML tags not supported .
  • If no font is specified, then font is inherited from the platform used. For example, if an email is sent using Outlook, then its default font is used (typically Times New Roman).

Authorizing user

Important: Due to Microsoft deprecating basic authentication, the Username and Password fields in the configuration of this action has been replaced with the new Authorizing user field. If you have existing workflows using the old version of the action, you must add the action to your workflow again and reconfigure it. Existing workflows with the old version of the action will continue to run till basic authentication is deprecated by Microsoft. After it's deprecated the action will fail at execution if you don't replace and reconfigure the action.

Specify an email address to receive the authorization request for the action. External email addresses can be used.

Exchange version

Specify the version of Exchange Online.

User to impersonate

Specify a user to impersonate. This setting allows an account with the appropriate permission to cancel an item from another user’s calendar.

Cancellation successful

Specify a Boolean variable to store whether or not the cancellation was successful. Returns "Yes" if the item was canceled successfully.

For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.