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Outlook Plugin

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What it is responsible for

The Outlook Plugin manages calendar-event synchronization with Microsoft Outlook by creating and updating appointments, representing dates with timezone information, organizers or recipients, recurrence patterns, and event-property enums. It also addresses Microsoft Graph HTTP 429 ApplicationThrottled failures during calendar synchronization: matchingPamsCalendarWithOutlookCalendar had made rapid sequential Graph calls and exceeded the MailboxConcurrency limit. The documented change adds a 500ms delay between API calls and uses executeWithRateLimit to control call timing. Its calendar models also cover simplified event creation, retrieval responses, retrieval query parameters, date formatting, all-day events, and recurring weekly meetings.

Notable members

  • matchingPamsCalendarWithOutlookCalendar synchronizes Pams and Outlook calendars; its rapid sequential Graph calls motivated rate limiting.
  • executeWithRateLimit manages API-call timing, including documented delay between calls.
  • Calendar models calendar events for creating or updating appointments and recurrence.

483 entities in Outlook_plugin. Nothing else in this repository depends on it.

What it is made of

Its 483 entities sit in 13 files under Outlook_plugin: 470 doc comments, 12 markdown docs and 1 function.

Where work enters

  • Microsoft Graph API 429 Error FixOutlook_plugin/429_ERROR_FIX_README.md:1
  • Deployment Readiness Checklist for Pams Outlook Add-inOutlook_plugin/DEPLOYMENT_CHECKLIST.md:1
  • Pams Outlook Add-in Deployment GuideOutlook_plugin/DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md:1
  • Docker Hub Rate Limit FixOutlook_plugin/DOCKER_RATE_LIMIT_FIX.md:1

How this code is named

These conventions cover most of the codebase. Learning them is faster than reading an index — each one lets you find any member of its family without looking it up.

PatternWhereCountExamples
check*exported symbols14checkConfirmation, checkExistingAuth, checkIfAttachmentExist, checkPermissionToCreate
*.service.tsacross the repository6auth.service.ts, account.service.ts, contact.service.ts, activity.service.ts
*.model.tsacross the repository6auth.model.ts, account.model.ts, contact.model.ts, activity.model.ts
matching*exported symbols5matchingPamsCalendarWithOutlookCalendar, matchingPamsCalendarWithOutlookCalendar()

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