Application permissions for Bookings APIs in Microsoft Graph now available on v1

Microsoft Graph team

July 21st, 20220 2

We are delighted to announce that application permissions for Bookings APIs in Microsoft Graph are now available on the v1 endpoint. 

Microsoft Graph APIs support both delegated and application permissions on the v1 endpoint. Previously, Bookings APIs in Microsoft Graph supported only delegated permissions.  Delegated permissions require a signed-in user to be present. In the case of Bookings, this meant that only a Bookings calendar administrator, scheduler, team member, or viewer can use APIs. Customers can’t create appointments, which means that custom solutions that support self-scheduling aren’t available. The addition of application permissions unlocks this scenario. 

With application permissions, developers can also create bot-like applications and make Bookings part of workflows that don’t need a user to be signed in. Application permissions can also be used to create tools that help tenant admins monitor Booking calendars. Tenant admins can keep track of Booking calendar staff members, publish status and appointment statistics, and more. 

APIs with application permissions 

In this release, we are providing application permissions for a limited set of Bookings APIs. This includes application permissions support for read and write APIs for the ‘bookingCustomer ‘and ‘bookingAppointment’ entities. For other entities, including ‘bookingBusiness’, ‘bookingStaffMember’, ‘bookingCustomQuestion’ and ‘bookingService’, we are supporting the read APIs only. Because these tasks are for Bookings admins, delegated permissions are recommended for these use cases. 

APIs  Entities 
Business APIs   
Get bookingBusiness – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingBusiness 
Service APIs   
List services – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingService 
Get bookingService – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingService 
Staff Member APIs   
List staffMembers – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingStaffMember 
Get bookingStaffMember – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingStaffMember 
Appointment APIs   
List appointments – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingAppointment 
Create bookingAppointment – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingAppointment 
Get bookingAppointment – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingAppointment 
Update bookingAppointment – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingAppointment 
Delete bookingAppointment – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingAppointment 
Customer APIs   
Get bookingCustomer – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingCustomer 
Update bookingCustomer – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingCustomer 
Delete bookingCustomer – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingCustomer 
Create bookingCustomer – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingCustomer 
Custom Questions APIs   
Get bookingCustomQuestion – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs  bookingCustomQuestions 

 

To create appointments using application permissions, you need to use the getStaffAvailability API. At the same time, you should understand how business rules are validated. There is one fundamental difference in creating appointments with delegated permissions as a Bookings admin and creating appointments using application permissions. It is assumed that an admin can override certain business checks as they are aware of their own calendar. However, the same assumption doesn’t hold while creating appointments using application permissions. 

Happy coding! 

Microsoft Graph team

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