calendar: getSchedule

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get the free/busy availability information for a collection of users, distributions lists, or resources (rooms or equipment) for a specified time period.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Calendars.ReadBasic Calendars.Read, Calendars.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Calendars.ReadBasic Calendars.Read, Calendars.ReadWrite

HTTP request

POST /me/calendar/getSchedule
POST /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/calendar/getSchedule

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization string Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type string Nature of the data in the body of an entity, which is application/json. Required.
Prefer: outlook.timezone string Use this to specify the time zone for start and end times in the response. If not specified, those time values are returned in UTC. Optional.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Property Type Description
availabilityViewInterval Int32 Represents the duration of a time slot in an availabilityView in the response. The default is 30 minutes, minimum is 5, maximum is 1440. Optional.
endTime dateTimeTimeZone The date, time, and time zone that the period ends.
schedules String collection A collection of SMTP addresses of users, distribution lists, or resources to get availability information for.
startTime dateTimeTimeZone The date, time, and time zone that the period starts.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of scheduleInformation objects for each object in the schedules parameter.

Note: When the user's calendar has a time slot that contains more than 1000 entries, a 5006 response code with the message "The result set contains too many calendar entries. The allowed size is 1000; the actual size is ..." will be returned. For details, see KB 2962513.

Examples

Request

The following example gets the availability information for two users for the specified date, time, and time zone.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/calendar/getSchedule
Prefer: outlook.timezone="Pacific Standard Time"
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "schedules": ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"],
    "startTime": {
        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T09:00:00",
        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
    },
    "endTime": {
        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T18:00:00",
        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
    },
    "availabilityViewInterval": 60
}

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(microsoft.graph.scheduleInformation)",
    "value": [
        {
            "scheduleId": "[email protected]",
            "availabilityView": "000220000",
            "scheduleItems": [
                {
                    "isPrivate": false,
                    "status": "busy",
                    "subject": "Let's go for lunch",
                    "location": "Harry's Bar",
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T12:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T14:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "workingHours": {
                "daysOfWeek": [
                    "monday",
                    "tuesday",
                    "wednesday",
                    "thursday",
                    "friday"
                ],
                "startTime": "08:00:00.0000000",
                "endTime": "17:00:00.0000000",
                "timeZone": {
                    "name": "Pacific Standard Time"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "scheduleId": "[email protected]",
            "availabilityView": "200220010",
            "scheduleItems": [
                {
                    "status": "busy",
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T08:30:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T09:30:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "status": "busy",
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T12:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T14:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "status": "tentative",
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T12:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T13:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "status": "busy",
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T13:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T14:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "status": "tentative",
                    "start": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T16:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    },
                    "end": {
                        "dateTime": "2019-03-15T17:00:00.0000000",
                        "timeZone": "Pacific Standard Time"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "workingHours": {
                "daysOfWeek": [
                    "monday",
                    "tuesday",
                    "wednesday",
                    "thursday",
                    "friday"
                ],
                "startTime": "08:00:00.0000000",
                "endTime": "17:00:00.0000000",
                "timeZone": {
                    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.customTimeZone",
                    "bias": 480,
                    "name": "Customized Time Zone",
                    "standardOffset": {
                        "time": "02:00:00.0000000",
                        "dayOccurrence": 1,
                        "dayOfWeek": "sunday",
                        "month": 11,
                        "year": 0
                    },
                    "daylightOffset": {
                        "daylightBias": -60,
                        "time": "02:00:00.0000000",
                        "dayOccurrence": 2,
                        "dayOfWeek": "sunday",
                        "month": 3,
                        "year": 0
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}