Append to Existing Microsoft Todo List

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I use Microsoft Todo for Task Management, and I have read the integration guide.

Am curious if anyone has already created a Draft Action that appends to an existing list?

For example, if I have a draft like so:

print latest report @marketing

I want the task “print latest report” to be added to the existing @marketing list in Microsoft Todo.

Before I try to script up on my own, wanted to check to see if this might already exist from someone out there.

thanks.

2

I’ve not seen any similar examples for Microsoft Todo, but I wouldn’t think it would be too bad to build. It’s a bit more advanced, but you might look at the Things Parser action, which has some similar parsing of values from lines to construct tasks for Things.

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Ethan, see if this helps get you there. I wrote a script kind of like this before, but that took a dedicated folder (list) variable. Here’s a modification that parses the list name from the draft as you described — but I don’t have my API key handy to try it out, so this looks right but it’s untested.

let api = "YOUR_API_KEY";

let firstLine = draft.processTemplate("[[line|1]]"),
	splitLine = firstLine.split("@"),
	current = splitLine[0].trim(),
	folder = splitLine[1] ? splitLine[1].trim() : "";

if (!folder) {
	alert("Folder not provided in the draft");
	context.fail();
} else {
	let req = new HTTP(),
		result = req.request({
			encoding: "json",
			method: "POST",
			data: {
				title: current,
			},
			headers: {
				"Content-type": "application/json; charset=UTF-8",
				"Authorization": `Bearer ${api}`,
			},
			url: `https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/todo/lists/${folder}/tasks`,
		});

	if (result.success) {
		alert(result.responseText);
	} else {
		alert(`Error: ${result.statusCode} - ${result.error}`);
	}
}

Good luck!

4

Just FYI, Drafts provides a wrapper class for working with the ToDo API that handles authentication and provides some convenience functions.

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