There are 11,000,000 meetings in the US workforce per day on average, and the average employee has 62 meetings a month. Regardless of which industry you are in, scheduling is an essential part of everyone’s day. Meetings happen with internal teammates and/or with external clients. Leveraging the Nylas Calendar API, you have two new scheduling features to increase end user happiness: the availability and consecutive availability endpoints. These new Nylas endpoints make scheduling easier than before by surfacing shared availability among meeting attendees and enabling end-users to schedule back-to-back meetings based upon availability.
Back and forth communication when figuring out scheduling times should be a thing of the past. You users need to seamlessly streamline scheduling so they can get more time back in their day. Regardless if your users are meeting with their teammates or with clients outside of their company, time should be spent accomplishing goals instead of figuring out when everyone can meet.
These two new endpoints were designed to simplify the scheduling processes for your end-users. The availability endpoint allows your users to schedule seamlessly by finding shared availability for all meeting attendees without compromising security. End users can schedule back-to-back meetings with the consecutive availability endpoint, such as an interview with four internal stakeholders, without searching for open calendar blocks that work for all participants. These two new endpoints work with Google Workspace, Exchange, and Office 365.
You will use the /calendars/availability endpoint to see shared availability across multiple parties, both internal and external, to an organization. This endpoint gives end-users more control over their schedules by allowing features such as:
Here is a quick example of how you can find the time that two separate accounts are available to meet:
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Newsroomcurl --request POST 'https://api.nylas.com/calendars/availability' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer BEARER_AUTH' \
-d '{
"duration_minutes": 30,
"interval_minutes": 30,
"start_time": 1605794400,
"end_time": 1605826800,
"emails": [
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]",
]
}'
You can add the following object to the previous example to restrict them to times between 10AM and 2PM Central time Monday through Friday in order to set up Open Hours:
"open_hours": [
{
"days": [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ],
"timezone": "America/Chicago",
"start": "10:00",
"end": "14:00",
"object_type": "open_hours"
}
]
You will use the /calendars/availability/consecutive endpoint to find different possible itineraries for multiple consecutive meetings with one or more participants mentioned in the input. This endpoint also supports all features of the availability API, including open hours.
Here is how you can find available time slots for two consecutive meetings with three individuals:
curl --request POST 'https://api.nylas.com/calendars/availability/consecutive' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer BEARER_AUTH' \
-d '{
"duration_minutes": 30,
"start_time": 1605794400,
"end_time": 1605826800,
"interval_minutes": 10,
"emails": [
[
"[email protected]"
],
[
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]"
]
],
}'
Take a look at our docs to learn more about how to use these two new endpoints.
Availability for Every Industry
End-users need to schedule meetings across internal and external teams with less friction. The availability and consecutive endpoints allow end-users to find available time slots to meet with all participants without searching one by one.
The availability and consecutive availability endpoints are just a few features that Nylas has to improve your scheduling abilities. Learn how Nylas can help by speaking with a specialist now.
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Dominic is a Product Marketing Manager at Nylas. In his spare time, he loves to hike and go to the beach with his dog.