Create Countdown timer to that connects to Outlook Calendar events

[kuhooedson]

Hi. I want to accomplish the following - is it possible? Ideally Microsoft would enable this with a simple feature in their Countdown Timer Web Part that allowed users to select events from their Outlook/Group/channel calendar.

1. Connect to Outlook: In PowerApps, establish a connection to the Outlook service using the Outlook connector.
2. Use the Outlook connector's functions to fetch the necessary details of the specific event I want to create a countdown timer for.
3. Create a visually appealing user interface for my Timer. 
4. Publish the PowerApp and add it to my SharePoint Site Home Page.

[cdwhite · Accepted solution]

Hi @kuhooedson,

What you want is achievable.

The first step is to add a Timer control to your app. Update the Duration property with the relevant number for your countdown duration. The default is set to 60000, which equals 6 seconds.

The Timer control has a property called OnTimerEnd, which can run your designated code against the Outlook connector when the timer has finished running.

To create a visually appealing countdown, you could add a label control to the screen with the following Power Fx:

Text(
    Time(0,0,(Timer1.Duration - Timer1.Value) / 1000
    ),
    "ss"
) & " seconds remaining"

If you want to extend to minutes or hours, you can extend the 'ss' formatting in the about to "mm:ss" or "hh:mm:ss".

If the timer needs to start more than once in the same app setting, you can do so with a local or global variable, for example:

UpdateContext({cvStartTimer: false});UpdateContext({cvStartTimer: true});

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[developerAJ]

its achievable but make sure that you are like hardcode the even id. if you just get events and filter it may not work because outlook events will be different for different users . when i open the app it will use my connection and get all meetings in my calendar 

[kuhooedson]

@cdwhite : First, thank you so much for replying to my request for information and second, please accept my apologies for taking this long to thank you. I have been trying to follow your guidance as well as conducting more research to try and learn PowerApps. It has become apparent that I don't possess the PowerApps knowledge that I need to create this flow.  I will continue to try and learn PowerApps so I can create the flow.