Outlook Meeting Transport Planner

The addin in use
Input options, Origin/Destination is prefilled with location of the meeting

Inspiration

Many sales people have busy calendars that often involves several clients meetings on the same day at different physical locations. Any person that have a calendar like that, have tried stressing out about driving from one meeting to the next in order to be on time. Often this stress is cause by poor planning with insufficient time to get from one location to another. BUT NO MORE, with Meeting Transport Planner Outlook Addin, it is easy to book transport placeholders that ensures that you have enough time getting from one place to another.

What it does

The addin helps you setup transport placeholder appointments, that have the correct duration for you to get to where you need to be at a specific time. The addin uses the Google Driving API to calculate the estimated driving distance, including traffic, and intelligently integrates with your Outlook calendar, so you don't have to retype information about the meeting location and time.

How I built it

The addin is built using Angular2 and TypeScript. It was built during the RC days of Angular2 and have since been updated to the Release Version of Angular2. It uses Office UI Fabric for that native Office look and feel. It uses the Exchange Web Service API to create appointments in the logged in users calendar (without requiring any additional authentication).