Disable alerts for tasks created via Outlook integration
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Currently, tasks created via the Outlook integration automatically have a 15-minute reminder set. It would be nice if this could be changed or disabled altogether :).
(if this is already possible or an issue on my end, please let me know :))
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Chris
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Thanks Chris, I appreciate your response! :)
I did some more testing with multiple calendars but never managed to disable the 15 min. reminder, even though I have reminders for new events set to disabled by default. Some searching on the web led me to the event resource type in Microsoft's Graph API (which I assume you are using?): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/event?view=graph-rest-1.0
This resource type has a property reminderMinutesBeforeStart which appears to default to 15 minutes if reminders are enabled for the event (at least, if I'm to believe the Exchange documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/exchange-server/exchange-10/ms528128(v=exchg.10), which I believe documents the underlying workings of the Graph API to some extent). Not sure if this helps, but that's the direction a quick search steered me towards.
Are you perhaps able to reproduce my findings (i.e. create an event in Ellie and observe that the event in Outlook has a 15 min. reminder set, regardless of any settings in your Outlook account)?
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wow really appreciate you taking the time to look through this!
I did a bit more digging and you are correct, looks like it does indeed not use the users setting by default and defaults to 15 mins
Ran a little test, reminderMinutesBeforeStart was correct and modifying it gives me more control (adding this for my future self: isReminderOn seems to be needed to disable it)
I was hoping I could easily pull the users settings but looks a bit more complicated because I don't have the scope permissions I need to do it (and I realized coding a flow to get more permission will take some time) so I think the best route is for me to add a setting in Ellie itself so users can specify this
Working on a few other things right now but I'll add this to my backlog to work on soon :)
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Thanks, I really appreciate your in-depth response! :)
Looking forward to the new setting being added to Ellie.
Thanks again for your commitment!
Chris
Hey! It actually should respect whatever settings you have set on your Outlook account. Do you have 15 mins set on Outlook? :)
If not, can totally take a look!