Can outlook notify a user when an event is created in their calendar?

[thecomputerguy]

I have a client who has access to two of her sales people's calendar to create events in them for sales meetings. She wants to know if there is a way for Outlook to send out a notification that an event has been created for them in their calendar.

Currently they do not know they have calendar events until they manually look inside their calendar because there is no notification.

I told her the only two ways I can think of would be to send them an email when she creates an event so they know, or create the event in a different calendar like make an appointments@company.com and then invite them them to the event as attendees.

Any other ways?

 

[nerd2u]

Pretty sure you can have it send out an email when the event is created

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[thecomputerguy]

Pretty sure you can have it send out an email when the event is created

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Yeah but she is adding events directly into the calendar, not creating events and inviting attendees, so no email goes out.

 

[nerd2u]

Perhaps this could work

https://www.slipstick.com/developer/send-email-when-you-add-appointment-to-calendar/

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[HCHTech]

Would IFTTT or Zapier be a possible solution?

 

[seedubya]

Yeah but she is adding events directly into the calendar, not creating events and inviting attendees, so no email goes out.

This is what she needs to do, though. Create a separate "Sales Appointments" calendar, create the events thereon and invite the sales people as attendees. They get the email notifying them of the meeting and voila! No need to re-invent the wheel, here.

 

[nerd2u]

How hard is it for them to simply check their calendar a couple times a day or for her to give them a ring if it's urgent or same day.

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[thecomputerguy]

This is what she needs to do, though. Create a separate "Sales Appointments" calendar, create the events thereon and invite the sales people as attendees. They get the email notifying them of the meeting and voila! No need to re-invent the wheel, here.

I agree completely.

 

[thecomputerguy]

How hard is it for them to simply check their calendar a couple times a day or for her to give them a ring if it's urgent or same day.

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I also agree completely... some clients just want their job done for them.