Doodle Outlook Connector

Access calendars and contacts

Start and answer meeting requests directly in the calendar interface. Your answers are automatically synched with your calendar.

Works for Outlook 2007 and 2010 on Windows.

A free user-account is required to connect your calendar. Open account

Installation

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    Get the setup by clicking on "Download Connector" and run it.

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    A free user-account is required to connect your calendar. Open account

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    If the required "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime" fails to install, try to install it directly from here. Then re-run the Doodle Outlook Connector installation.

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    Restart Outlook after a complete installation of the connector.

Usage

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    After the Outlook restart, you will be prompted to log into Doodle.

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    After a successful log-in, you can select calendars which you want to connect with Doodle.

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    Once the initial synchronisation is done, click on "Schedule event" in the Doodle toolbar. Create a test poll. On the wizard step 2 you should see your synchronized calendars (make sure you are logged in).

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    Open your test poll. Above the poll table you find a "Calendar View" tab. Click on it. Now you will see your connected calendars again as well as your proposed dates/times on which you can now vote.

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    Go back to Outlook. Click on "Sync" in the Doodle toolbar. Your participation should now appear as tentative appointments in your calendar.

Insights

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    You control whether contact or appointment details are synched with Doodle.

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    We only sync the last 30 days and the next 90 days.

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    Contact information will not be re-synched unless you go through the "Settings" dialog again.

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    Connector updates, when available, will automatically be installed upon the next Outlook restart.

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    The connector can be removed at any time via the Control Panel (Add/Remove Programs).

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