Handle EWS folder structure updates in EBO

[FredrikAlmgren]

I made a SmartConnector-connector for a booking system, which shows my bookings in EWS. I haven't worked with the EBO side of it much yet, I thought I would check in here if you have solved similar problems already.

So the function is that each event has a start and stop time (EWS datetime) which will control a heating setting in specific rooms.

When i host the EWS objects in EBO, they don't seem to update the folder structure when the EWS server does. How can i handle the varying number of bookings in a nice way? I rather not create placeholder folders like event1, event2 etc.

Also, I would need to handle changed or deleted events. Is there a nice way to find the EWS objects that aren't updated, if I add an "updated"-timestamp for example?

[ardak · Accepted solution]

Hej Fredrik,

You are correct, EBO will not update(rediscover) your EWS server. This means that dynamic structures like the one you are describing can't be used.

I guess there are several ways of tackling this limitation, but the easiest that comes to mind is maybe representing every room as a string value. This way, you could store a JSON representation that could get updated, and your bookings would be a list in the JSON value.. something like this:

{

    "roomName" : 101,

    "floor" : 1,

    "bookings" : [

        {

            "id": "AF2D2135123255CA",

            "startTime" : "2015-05-16T05:50:06.7199222-04:00",

            "stopTime" : "2015-05-16T05:50:06.7199222-04:00",

            "bookedBy" : "Fredrik"

        },

        {

            "id": "AF2D2135123255CA",

            "startTime" : "2016-05-16T05:50:06.7199222-04:00",

            "stopTime" : "2017-05-16T05:50:06.7199222-04:00",

            "bookedBy" : "Armend"

        }

    ]

}

Then you could have a script program parsing them and doing whatever you need to do in EBO.

Hope this helps,

Armend