Aloha-oe to TravelTime

Per the fine, fine folks in Redmond:

Upcoming, we will be retiring the preview program enabling REST API access to on-premises mailboxes for Hybrid Exchange organizations.

Note: This will impact those who write code against Exchange mailboxes.

Key points

• Timing: Beginning early March 2023, we will begin to return errors for any requests made for mailboxes that remain on-premises.
• Action: Use Microsoft Graph for Exchange Online and Exchange Web Services (EWS) for Exchange Server on-premises
• Roll-out: tenant level

SO WHAT THIS MEANS FOR TRAVEL TIME,

Travel Time uses REST API so it's going to start giving you return errors.

Sorry, folks, we had some fun making it and we hope you had some useful times with it.

Travel Time for Outlook / OWA

OK folks, we have an updated version of our Travel Time add-in for you.

Documentation

• Uses Outlook API (destined for decomissioning in November 2022 but who are we kidding?  It'll go way beyond that!) and Office JavaScript.
• Will work with OWA or Outlook 2016/2019 on Windows 10 and needs an Office 365 account .  Need other platforms, please let us know.
• It’s not (yet) in the Microsoft Store, so you’ll need to side-load the application.  This link tells you how if you do not know.

Privacy and Permissions

We hate spyware. Sumatra’s Travel Time Outlook addin does do not collect ANY of your calendar information, passwords, usernames, etc.   Only you know what you’re using this for.  We will rely on you to let us know what you think.  

This applications runs only on your machine, and only if you are logged into Office 365. You do not need your administrator to modify your company’s server permissions.  BUT, this add-in requires read-write access to your mailbox (otherwise we can’t create new appointments).

You will need to side-load with this address:

 https: // sumatra.com/tt/ SumatraTravelTimeManifest.xml

Travel Time for Outlook / OWA

What can we say?  We're market-driven.

We didn't get much response the first time we did a travel time add-in for Outlook / OWA, but in the last few months our volume on this has improved so we re-wrote the code.

Our thinking is that we'll keep the version we currently have available for free (it's based on version 1.4 of the Outlook JavaScript API) while we work on a more full-featured version for the enterprise..

Want to try it out -- contact us.

 

Travel Time for Outlook -- our first pass -- we want your feedback

We spend a lot of time making calendar data go into Office 365 / Microsoft Exchange.

So when one of us (Russ) needed to do all sorts of travelling for a community project he was on he immediately started wondering:  WHY is there no good way to add travel time to an appointment or meeting in Outlook?

February 2021 We've gotten three requests about this over the last few weeks.  If you're a corporate entity that's interested, drop us a line infoATsumatraDOTCOM.  We're in a soft re-opening of the code.

Of course since he runs the development group at Sumatra he was in a position to do something about it and over the past few months has been engaged in the admirable engineering tradition of skunk works projects.

Truth be told, EVERY project at Sumatra is skunk works, but no matter.

Herewith we invite you to try out our first pass at Travel Time for Outlook.  It's not as full-featured as we envision but it's as functional as other offerings we see people wanting to charge money for.  And we'll let you use this for free.

What this looks like on Office 365:

It's a small icon

Pressing that gives you these options:

Saving it gives you this:

So far pretty simple and we've got our directions for extending it.  But we're listeners.

You'll have to contact us for the URL to install from, but as long as you're willing to provide feedback we're game.

How to install this:

• Sign in to Office 365: https://outlook.office.com/owa/
• Pick the “gear” icon and select Manage Add-ins

• Choose Add-ins, My add-ins, Custom add-ins, Add a custom add-in, Add from URL

• Contact us infoATsumatraDOTCOM for the URL to use.
• Accept the warning, etc.., then close
• Go to your calendar. Create or open an event
• Select the Travel Time icon

Now you get to add travel and/or return time.

There's a lot more work to be done but this is a start and we'd welcome your input on how you're using it.