Office 365 Calendar Sync

Centerbase offers direct integration with Office 365’s calendar. Only Microsoft hosted O365 will sync with the Centerbase Calendar. Third-party hosted or on-premise Office is not supported.

This will also allow users to have their email synced with Centerbase as described in this article here.

Each user will need to log in with their Office 365 account under the User settings > Office 365 tab. Clicking the Connect button will bring up an external O365 login authorization page. The user then can push their Centerbase calendar to their Office 365 account using the "Push my calendar to 365" button.

Note: Mass pushing existing entries from Centerbase to Office 365 is a one-way push. Centerbase cannot currently pull the entire user’s calendar into Centerbase for prior existing entries. If events from an Office 365 account must be brought into Centerbase, they must be imported using the import tool.

The integration supports both one-way sync (push new events from Centerbase to O365) or two-way (push new events from Centerbase to O365 or from O365 to Centerbase). Either way, once the entry has been synced, it will remain in sync between the two systems when modifications or deletions occur.

Any user in the Scheduled For section of the activity in Centerbase will show a green check in the lower right-hand side of their record denoting that they are connected to 365. Centerbase will push the calendar entry to their 365 calendars for these users.

In the System Settings > Office 365 section, administrators may adjust the System-Wide O365 sync settings listed below:

1. Always Push Appointments to Outlook: Should Activities by default push from Centerbase to O365 calendar upon save. Users may always deselect on a per activity basis.
2. Always Push Tasks to Outlook: Should Tasks by default push from Centerbase to O365 calendar upon saving. Users may always deselect on a per-task basis.
3. Use Organizer for Activities: Activities in Centerbase have the ability to sync with O365 as meetings, which is handled via the 'Organizer'. When creating an activity, if the creator is connected to Outlook, they will be the default Organizer. When the activity is saved and pushed to Outlook, the non-organizer attendees will receive invites from the organizer about the new/updated meeting in their outlook calendar. Invites for an appointment sent from the Organizer will also show its status, indicating whether the end-user has accepted the invitation or not yet.
4. When Deleting: If the user is restricted from deleting an activity, deleting the activity from 0365 will remove the user from the Scheduled For section.
5. Use Organizer for Activities: See the article on Activity Organizer. 
6. When Editing: If the user is restricted from editing an activity, then editing the activity from 0365 will remove the user from the Scheduled For section and create a newly edited version on the user’s calendar.
7. Create New from Office: Allow two-way syncing of new activities. Refer to the next setting for information on requirements to create activities from O365.
8. Create New Prefix: Leaving this option blank means all events created in O365 will push to Centerbase. Placing a text prefix here means that only events created with that prefix will push to Centerbase.