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Free/Busy URL for Outlook

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enhancement Feature: Scheduling
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Hi,

I tried to search for a long time for an answer to this but without success. I need a freebusy url (for all user calendar that are not shared by someone else) to allow Outlook to access this information (by user full Name) when trying to organize a meeting.

The obtained freebusy informations will need to be like this :

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 16.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VFREEBUSY
ORGANIZER:someone@somedomaine.com
DTSTAMP:20210103T235558Z
DTSTART:20201227T230000Z
DTEND:20210228T230000Z
FREEBUSY:20210105T070000Z/20210105T073000Z
FREEBUSY:20210106T070000Z/20210106T073000Z
FREEBUSY:20210107T070000Z/20210107T073000Z
END:VFREEBUSY
END:VCALENDAR

and obtain it using an URL like :

https://somedomaine.com/nextcloud/freebusy.php/%NAME%

My questions are :

Is there already such URL but perhaps not compatible with Outlook? If then I will try to understand how it works and adapt it if my programmers skills are good enough.

Is there a way, using an API to get such information or perhaps the full calendar of a user, as an admin to create such URL?

Is there already something on Nextcloud and if yes, can I please receive the URL and perhaps the way to enable it.

Thanks in advance for your time and answers.

Best regards.

Blaise Drayer

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Research direction

The issue names no implementation files or tests. Start by checking existing Nextcloud Calendar free/busy, calendar-sharing, and CalDAV endpoints against the requested Outlook VFREEBUSY response, then define the intended URL or API behavior for unshared user calendars and how Outlook access would be verified.

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Assessment

Domain
api
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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