Outlook Calendar Integration

Is there a way to sync your outlook calendar with a task? eg. A discovery meeting for a client is set up in outlook, but I would also like it to link to a task for the day. This way notes and attachments can be added in Wrike, but the client will only see it in outlook.

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Paul Roston

I would also like an Outlook calendar integration!!

Husain AlSaffar

We would like to get the Outlook Calendar integration ASAP

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hey guys, please check out our Wrike for Outlook integration 🙂 Drop me a line here if you have any questions 🙌

Tony Jokinen

Hey Lisa,

I checked into the outlook integration, and it doesn't mention anything about calendars.

How does wrike integrate with specifically the calendar portion of outlook?

Thanks

Paul Roston

there are 3rd party apps that will sync Google calendars with Outlook. So you might want to consider using the Wrike Google calendar integration and then sync Google with Outlook. Here are a few options:

http://www.pppindia.com/calendar-sync/buy-calendar-sync-pro.php

Paul Roston

another option:

https://oggsync.com/correct-version-of-oggsync-now-available/

Elizaveta Bogdanova

@Tony @Paul @Husain Hey, sorry, I misunderstood you - Wrike for Outlook helps interact with Wrike from your inbox: turn an email into a Wrike task, edit existing Wrike tasks, send and receive comments. Currently Wrike doesn't provide a native integration with Outlook Calendars.
That said, you can still use Zapier to integrate Wrike with an Outlook Calendar in case you have an Office365 account. Also, you can try using Workato to set up the integration. There's also an option to use API. For this, please check out our Developers portal.
I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions 🙌

Tony Jokinen

Thanks for the replies! I will check out a few of these options, and let you know which one seemed to work best.

Paul Zickert

Also agree. Most of our teams are saying they need to integrate their Tasks directly to their Outlook calendar as well. Hoping this makes the roadmap soon as it should be a quick fix.

Lesley Stout

Having deadlines and due dates sync with our Outlook calendars would be very helpful. Calendar visualization is the easiest way for a lot of users to see timelines and balance their work schedules.

parmalyn jacob

I need to have outlook calendar intergration

Husain AlSaffar

Lisa Bogdanova

will try that options ,but it will be much better if we can have something out of the box from Wrike with outlook calendar Sync

Chanse Arrington

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@All, I've moved this to the Product Feedback topic, rather than API as it's evolved that way now.

@Paul Roston - did you get a chance to test the options you've linked. I don't use Outlook, but I'm interested to hear your feedback 👍

Paul User

I have tried a few but the more I think about it the more I feel that it needs to be more of a native function. Deciding what tasks should or should not be shared loaded into outlook and visa-versa has to be straight forward and intuitive. So far I don’t see any of the options being a very usable solution.

Thomas Maddox

Any update on this feature request? Would love to see the task auto sync to Exchange calendar, and then update if the date for the task is changed or modified in Wrike.

Chanse Arrington

Just to help the Wrike guys out. I'm happy to make intros to teams or groups in Microsoft to help get this done. (Microsoft Employee disclaimer)

A Couple easy options for this are integration with Planner through Microsoft Graph API ->

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/planner-concept-overview

This would be the best long term solution (IMO) since you're already tied into Microsoft Graph & O365 Authentication

another option is to make a Wrike plugin for Microsoft Flow https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/

Tons of cool things could be done with this connection.

Keith Acton

Integrating to Outlook Calendar is paramount for Wrike to be a superior product in the industry and not a Meh product. Sooner or later, we will have to make the change to MS Planner if we cannot see the outlook integration addressed here. Wrike is a very nice and robust product that is missing here. I don't want to invest time for a work around. This is your product and these requests have been in demand for some time.

Paul Roston

I agree that there needs to be an integration directly with Outlook calendar. I've been saying this for many months. But what I've found to be very useful in the mean time is to create a Google Calendar, sync Wrike with your Google Calendar, and sync Outlook with Google Calendar. All of these are very easy to do and you don't require ANY 3rd party software. An important point is that the overall integration will only be as good as the current Google/Wrike integration, which is one direction only. You can't add things to the Wrike calendar from your Outlook Calendar.

Eric Bowers

For people who live in their Outlook email and calendar, Wrike could easily fill in the gap that exists in the Microsoft suite regarding shared project and task management. The Microsoft product line has at least half a dozen solutions to individual task and project management, but none of them shared, affordable, and easily integrated with the Outlook calendar. Wrike already has a good plugin for Outlook email. Outlook is still used by millions of users, and leaving this integration out of the Wrike product seems a significant missed opportunity. It will be the deciding factor for our ongoing use of Wrike.

The calendar is the basis by which our users live their lives these days, and fully integrating their project and task schedules is key to managing workload and other responsibilities.

Thomas Maddox

Checking to see if this is on the roadmap. In our particular use case of Wrike, we are using this for service delivery project tracking. As we assign a project or for task to a user and set a date, it would be super helpful if Wrike could create a calendar invite for the user that was assigned a task. Otherwise, we are setting a date for a task in Wrike, and then having to switch to Outlook and create a calendar invite. This is super inefficient and should be addressed very soon. They already have Google integration, but are missing the much larger group of Exchange/O365 user base.

Jeffrey Bilderback

They do have an integration tool but you must subscribe to Wrike Integrate to use it. That's $20/month per user. Pretty expensive. I looked at the google calendar sync option, and the google calendar is now part of the Wrike Integrate program, so that doesn't seem to be an option either. Zapier is a pay per user account from what I see, so that option is once again an additional expense. The Microsoft flow api seems like a bit of effort to resolve the problem, and non-tech people aren't going to invest the time or money into that. I really haven't found any options that are viable solutions without spending hundreds of dollars per user per year. That's frustrating.

Wolfgang Konetschni

Would highly appreciate if Wrike would offer a solution to transfer the name, the assignee, status, start- and enddate of a task in my outlook calendar. This would make the live much easier for me and my colleagues, which are already using Wrike for Projectmanagment!

Paul Roston

Wrike does offer calendar integration with Google Calendar. I believe this is free and just needs to be turned on.

https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/articles/214413365-Google-Calendar-Integration

If you don't have a Google Calendar it's simple to make one.Then you can create tasks in your Google calendar using the Wrike calendar interface. Then you can sync your Google Calendar with Outlook and you can see any event that is put into the Google Calendar in Outlook.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/see-your-google-calendar-in-outlook-c1dab514-0ad4-4811-824a-7d02c5e77126

This is not the most elegant or complete solution but it will but tasks into Outlook.

Wolfgang Konetschni

I´m not sure if it will work for our enterprise account because we are very limited by using "middleware" for dataintegrations. I´ll check your proposal an come back with information thanks. Thanks for your feedback Paul!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hey guys, thanks for your feedback here.

I'd also suggest checking out Wrike Integrate for this.

Please let me know if you have any questions 🙂

Eric Bowers

Unfortunately adding $1499 per month to use Wrike with Outlook isn't a viable option. That's why we're using Smartsheet now. The calendar integration is free.

Simon Warner

This seems like a feature a lot of customers want (myself included). There are several long-running threads - some a couple of years old - about this very issue and yet... nothing definitive from the Wrike support team in terms of a firm commitment to implement it, just some awkward / expensive workarounds.

We're currently evaluating Wrike as a potential collaboration platform for our team and this doesn't exactly sell the product. And there are a lot of other products.

Min Cho

This would be a valuable feature for our team. How is Outlook calendar not a basic integration? So many other project management software have the Outlook calendar integration without an extra cost.

Roosevelt Dias

Any update on this? It would be so good to have the Wrike Calendar talk to my Outlook Calendar. Benefits: One-stop for everything. I could just use Wrike every morning to understand what needs to happen. I could see what tasks are due for the day. I could see how much time I am investing on which projects. This would help with my time-sheet. As part of the Project Management Office, I could see which projects are tracking well in the business. This is possible if the two talk to each other.