* This topic applies to Nintex Workflow Enterprise Edition only.

This workflow action creates a calendar appointment or meeting request in Microsoft Exchange.

To use the workflow action:

Alternatively

• Left-clicking the pearl, mouse-over Insert Action and then the Categories to reveal the actions, click the required action from the list.

To change the settings used by the action:

• On the action’s title click the down arrow to activate a drop-down
• Select Configure; OR
• Double-click the action's icon.

For more information on the other options in the drop-down, please refer to the Getting started with the Nintex Workflow designer.

Options for this action

Ribbon Option: Action 

Microsoft Exchange connection details

This action connects to Microsoft Exchange Server using the Exchange web services.

• Enter the URL to the Exchange web service.
• Enter the username and password of an account that has rights to create appointments in the mailbox of the user specified in the For field.

Editor mode

• Appointment: use the Nintex Workflow UI to build the appointment.
• Advanced: edit the appointment XML manually. Use the Advanced mode to set appointment options not listed in the Appointment mode (UI). See the Microsoft Exchange Web Services SDK for more details.

Appointment details

This section defines the appointment to be created. When the action runs, the calendar appointment will be created in the calendar of the user specified in the For field.

No meeting request will be sent to this user. The account credentials specified above must have write access to this user's mailbox. 

For more details on using Insert Reference please refer to Inserting reference fields.  

Note: Dates specified in the Start Date and End Date fields will be treated as local time according to the time zone specified in the team site regional settings.

This section allows the addition of additional meeting attendees. These users will receive meeting requests.