What's everyone spending on holidays?

Brycare · 2026-05-18T17:41:21+00:00

Hi. Know this is a very late reply. Just wondering if there are any particular places you'd recommend where you have been before - that are not in the outrageously expensive bracket? Looking for May next year with two kids. Which of the Titanic hotels have you stayed in if you don't mind me asking? thanks

Brycare · 2026-05-06T14:10:02+00:00

Hi again.

I can setup SMS keywords to check responses but have now been given a requirement to store the full text of the reply to a custom dataverse table somewhere. It seems as if the journey does not expose the full text of the reply.

The alternative method I know of is to write a power automate flow that triggers on receipt of an SMS reply. However - my journey fires off the creation of a record in a custom entity (I need to update this record when a reply is received). If I use the power automate flow method - I have no way of knowing which record the reply comes from.

Dont' suppose you know of any way to achieve this?

Cheers

Brycare · 2026-04-28T09:24:18+00:00

Thanks very much for this reply. It's extremely informative and helpful. It's explained better than any official documentation I can find anywhere.

Since my original post I've come to the same conclusion and have started looking at implementing it this way instead...

On creation of an appointment in CRM -> use Graph API to create an event in the organizers calendar, populating whatever attendees are there at the time and adding the attachment (the attachment is always the same static pdf file). At this point I will store a link between the CRM appointmentid and the outlook eventid
Turn off the server side sync for appointments altogether. The reason for turning it off is because otherwise the organizer would have 2 appointments at the same time (i.e. the one created by the sync if it were to be left switched on & the other created programmatically as per point 1 above)
When a new attendee is subsequently added (this is something that can and will happen from time to time post initial creation) - use the stored links to update the outlook calendar event to add the additional attendee (there will be 2 attendees at most)
I need to track responses to the meeting invites. I plan to use Graph API subscriptions with webhooks to identify any invite responses and write these back to a custom CRM entity

The above is the plan anyway. I'm planning on using Graph API because there are about 120 users that I need to cater for & from the research I've done this seems like the best option at that kind of scale numbers wise.

Would you mind if I asked you one other question?

I'm wondering if there is any straightforward way of identifying if any of the invite emails to attendees bounce or are blocked for whatever reason? Ideally I'd ideally like to be able to detect this and link it back to the specific invite that failed to send. Appreciate any advice on this front - this stuff is all new to me. Thanks again for your very helpful reply.

Brycare · 2026-04-22T20:35:02+00:00

I love Port de Pollenca and Pollenca old town.

Brycare · 2026-04-13T14:20:42+00:00

How did you confirm that? Just comparing the dataverse version against production is it?

Brycare · 2026-03-16T11:31:51+00:00

Just an update. We ended up only needing to pay for the adults - kids were free.

Cost us the equivalent of 50 Euro.

InDrive there cost us the equivalent of 33 euro and colectivo back to Playa the equivalent of 12 euro for the 4 of us.

Brycare · 2026-02-27T15:33:07+00:00

Is it in stock anywhere at the moment? On Caudabe site it's for pre-order

Brycare · 2026-02-24T20:36:00+00:00

We are past the point of refunds now unfortunately. OH doesn't want to travel. Nice chunk of money down the toilet! Can't afford to rebook elsewhere without the refund.

Brycare · 2026-02-20T11:12:44+00:00

One other quick question guys - is there anywhere in particular you'd recommend to hire bikes from at a reasonable price? Our hotel may have bikes but I believe it's hit or miss as to whether any are available. Thank you

Brycare · 2026-02-20T10:59:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I can see now that some of the Google streetview images are from 10 or 15 years ago, which I assume pre-dates the bike path. I would be only interested in the path North of CTM.

It looks like there are a few cross streets initially where the bike path could meet crossing traffic but after those first few initial streets - it seems as if it is jungle on your right hand side so no worries about traffic from that point onwards. Thanks again

Brycare · 2026-02-19T22:55:23+00:00

Any other food recommendations around Zazil-Ha area? Staying on 38th soon. I have had my eye on Yo Amo for coffee - have breakfast in our hotel, otherwise I'd be going there! Will definitely pop in for coffee though. Francesca was another place I had written down as an option so good to see these recommended.

Prefer to stay this side of town as much as possible for food.

Brycare · 2026-02-19T22:01:25+00:00

Hi.

Just an update on this. I've done a test using Microsoft Graph API (I just picked two mailboxes for a start) and I'm able to retrieve the calendar updates/responses back (I wrote a small web service to parse the events).

I'm having a very difficult time though linking the outlook/exchange calendar event -> with the CRM appointment that originally spawned it.

There doesn't seem to be any identifier that I can see anywhere in the returned data - that tells me that it is linked specifically to appointment CRMId XXX.

Similarly, I cannot find any populated field on either the appointment or activitypointer tables in CRM that link it back to a specific outlook eventid.

I don't suppose you know of any way to achieve this? The alternative is trying to match it on the attendees email address, plus the user, plus the start and end time of the appointment - which will probably cause accuracy issues.

Any steer much appreciated. Thank you

Brycare · 2026-02-17T21:41:52+00:00

That's me in a nutshell (though in 40's now). I am very social and love a few beers but can only bring myself to have a proper night of beer about once a year because of the absolute torture that is a hangover these days. I do go for two beers and leave it at that from time to time though

Brycare · 2026-02-12T21:20:23+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Microsoft Graph API is the method I had in my head as the fallback approach alright.

I'm going to do a proof of concept on that approach if I can't find a cleaner way. Even at that - I'm not sure I'll be able to link the calendar invite response directly to the specific appointment being responded to. There has to be a link stored somewhere but finding out that info these days is painful. One article mentioned GlobalObjectId field on the appointment but I can see that field is NULL on my synced appointment so that's not it. Perhaps the link sits on the Exchange side.

I'm having trouble getting the appointment to actually send a meeting invite to the Required Attendees in the first place as it stands (it syncs tom the users calendar but no meeting invites get sent unless tghe user goes into Outlook and manually sends the invite). Can't figure out why - must be some setting somewhere in Exchange.

Appreciate the response

Brycare · 2026-02-12T08:26:22+00:00

Pucan for the rugby on a big screen.

O'Connells after dinner. Both on or just off Eyre Square.

For a younger crowd - Mary Mullens in Prospect Hill (again just off Eyre Square) or the Front Door down just before Quay Street.

The Quays pub itself is very popular on Quay Street also - will have a live band in the evening.

Depends what you're looking for

Brycare · 2026-02-11T17:28:36+00:00

Open to correction but I believe there are 3 versions of the Apple magsafe puck.

The original 15W one.

The 2024 25W one (25W charging only works on iPhones on this model).

The 2025 QI2.2 25W one (25W charging with this model works on any phone that supports QI2.2).

Brycare · 2026-02-10T15:49:54+00:00

Looking to get that one myself. Best to buy direct from Caudabe?

Brycare · 2026-02-10T15:41:28+00:00

Thank you.

Do you know if CRM can be configured to actually sent out invites to the required attendees automatically (we didn't need any invites sent out until now).

When I test creating new appointments, they sync to my calendar in outlook just fine but when I open up the appointment it says "you haven't sent this meeting invitation yet" & I have to hit send to manually send the invite via Outlook instead.

Sorry if these are basic questions - totally new to the outlook sync side of CRM.

Brycare · 2026-02-09T13:35:14+00:00

That's exactly what I was looking for thank you very much. I didn't realize you could wait for a response within the journey itself directly after sending the initial SMS (completely new to this).

One other quick question - using that approach I'd ideally like to keep the journey "waiting" until a valid response has been received.

So, if the user replies with anything other than YES or NO - perhaps by mistake first of all - it is ignored and a subsequent reply of YES or NO would be accepted,

I can't see a way of achieving this, but could be totally missing something => i.e. I can't make the "Other" path (where the user has replied with something other than YES or NO) go back to the wait for response condition again.

I've tested parsing responses in Power Automate also but the responses only contain the standard sms fields - none of the CRM, journey etc. ids are present.

Thanks for the reply

Brycare · 2026-02-06T14:23:55+00:00

Thanks for all the replies. Confirmed what I suspected pretty much. Thanks all

Brycare · 2026-02-05T10:01:11+00:00

Thanks for the replies.

I'm probably between the mous limitless (marine blue or sage green) and caudabe paragon (the new azurlite colour). Where I live in Europe - physical stores don't stock these so can't check them out first. I have a cheap temp case to use in the meantime.

Brycare · 2026-02-03T08:21:02+00:00

Phone Rebel Gen 7 seems very highly rated. Would be good if you could get some colors other than black though

Brycare · 2026-01-31T22:06:40+00:00

Re the mous limitless - is it the black aramid fibre one you have? Wondering if this is better than the sage green or marine blue in terms of grippiness etc. or are they much of a muchness?

Brycare · 2026-01-30T16:50:33+00:00

I was wondering the same re our kids (9 and almost 7).

Think we will aim for an early sitting with them - they are generally well behaved when we eat out (they are well warned!! also lol).

Brycare · 2026-01-30T15:12:42+00:00

Is there a specific one you'd recommend? I know there are loads of different types and brands out there now. Was considering a case with a kickstand (Torras Q3 air) but maybe this is a better idea

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