Add-in for Outlook that syncs your WFM schedule into your calendar, with optional filtering of segments.
- .NET Framework 4.5
- Outlook 2013 / Outlook 2016
- Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime
- Corpnet connectivity to resolve https://wfm
- Exit Outlook.
- Install the add-in by clicking here. Future updates are automatic with ClickOnce technology.
- Launch Outlook and locate the new WFM for Outlook tab in the ribbon.
- Configure Meeting Options to determine how synced segments appear on your calendar.
- Click the Sync Now button to do an immediate pull from WFM.
The default settings are:
- Exclusive sync mode meaning all segments will be synced unless they are excluded inside the Segment Filter
- Research, Shift, and Meal segments are excluded
- Sync happens every 8 hours
- Each sync pulls the next 28 days of your schedule
- New meetings are prepended with "WFM: " and tagged with a yellow category
The sync logic is very basic:
- Delete all future WFM events from your calendar.
- Recreate them based on your WFM schedule.
- If you get error 0x8007007E, please ensure you've installed the Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime.
- Each time WFM for Outlook does a sync, it maintains a sync log at
%APPDATA%\WFM For Outlook\sync.log
. Look in here to potentially spot what the issue is. Reach out to mahuynh@microsoft.com and attach your sync log for in-depth issues.