# Connect Outlook to Canva When **New Calendar Event** fires in [Outlook](https://apiant.ai/connections/outlook), your agent runs **Create Design Comment In Preview Api** in [Canva](https://apiant.ai/connections/canva). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Outlook **5** triggers Outlook **43** actions Canva **22** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Outlook and Canva to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Outlook can start in Canva - When **New Calendar Event** in Outlook then **Create Design Comment In Preview Api** in Canva - When **New Contact Added** in Outlook then **Create User Or Sub Folder** in Canva Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Outlook and Canva ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 65 actions - Trigger **Calendar Event Changes** Triggered when a new calendar event occurs (created, updated, or deleted) in the Outlook calendar. - Trigger **New Calendar Event** Triggered when a new calendar event is created in the Outlook calendar. - Trigger **New Contact Added** Triggered when a new contact is added in the Outlook contacts. - Trigger **New Outlook Message** Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox. - Trigger **New Sent Message** Triggered when a new message is sent from the Outlook mailbox. - Action **Add Mail Attachment** Tool to add an attachment to an email message. use when you have a message id and need to attach a small (<3 mb) file or reference. - Action **Create Calendar** Tool to create a new calendar in the signed-in user's mailbox. use when organizing events into a separate calendar. - Action **Create Contact Folder** Tool to create a new contact folder in the user's mailbox. use when needing to organize contacts into custom folders. - Action **Create Email Rule** Create email rule filter with conditions and actions - Action **Create Mail Folder** Tool to create a new mail folder. use when you need to organize email into a new folder. - Action **Create Master Category** Tool to create a new category in the user's master category list. use after selecting a unique display name. - Action **Delete Mail Folder** Delete a mail folder from the user's mailbox. use when you need to remove an existing mail folder. - Action **Download Outlook Attachment** Downloads a specific file attachment from an email message in a microsoft outlook mailbox; the attachment must contain 'contentbytes' (binary data) and not be a link or embedded item. - Action **Get Mailbox Settings** Tool to retrieve mailbox settings. use when you need to view settings such as automatic replies, time zone, and working hours for the signed-in or specified user. - Action **Get Mail Delta** Tool to retrieve incremental changes (delta) of messages in a mailbox. use when syncing mailbox updates since last checkpoint. - Action **Get Mail Tips** Tool to retrieve mail tips such as automatic replies and mailbox full status. use when you need to check recipient status before sending mail. - Action **Get Master Categories** Tool to retrieve the user's master category list. use when you need to get all categories defined for the user. - Action **Get Supported Languages** Tool to retrieve supported languages in the user's mailbox. use when you need to display or select from available mailbox languages. - Action **Get Supported Time Zones** Tool to retrieve supported time zones in the user's mailbox. use when you need a list of time zones to display or choose from for event scheduling. - Action **List Calendars** Tool to list calendars in the signed-in user's mailbox. use when you need to retrieve calendars with optional odata queries. - Action **List Event Attachments** Tool to list attachments for a specific outlook calendar event. use when you have an event id and need to view its attachments. - Action **List Outlook Attachments** Lists metadata (like name, size, and type, but not `contentbytes`) for all attachments of a specified outlook email message. - Action **List Reminders** Tool to retrieve reminders for events occurring within a specified time range. use when you need to see upcoming reminders between two datetimes. - Action **Outlook Add Event Attachment** Adds an attachment to a specific outlook calendar event. use when you need to attach a file or nested item to an existing event. - Action **Outlook Calendar Create Event** Creates a new outlook calendar event, ensuring `start datetime` is chronologically before `end datetime`. - Action **Outlook Create Contact** Creates a new contact in a microsoft outlook user's contacts folder. - Action **Outlook Create Draft** Creates an outlook email draft with subject, body, recipients, and an optional attachment. supports creating drafts as part of existing conversation threads by specifying a conversationid; attachments require a name, mimetype, and content. - Action **Outlook Create Draft Reply** Creates a draft reply in the specified user's outlook mailbox to an existing message (identified by a valid `message id`), optionally including a `comment` and cc/bcc recipients. - Action **Outlook Delete Contact** Permanently deletes an existing contact, using its `contact id` (obtainable via 'list user contacts' or 'get contact'), from the outlook contacts of the user specified by `user id`. - Action **Outlook Delete Event** Deletes an existing calendar event, identified by its unique `event id`, from a specified user's microsoft outlook calendar, with an option to send cancellation notifications to attendees. - Action **Outlook Get Contact** Retrieves a specific outlook contact by its `contact id` from the contacts of a specified `user id` (defaults to 'me' for the authenticated user). - Action **Outlook Get Contact Folders** Tool to retrieve a list of contact folders in the signed-in user's mailbox. use after authentication when you need to browse or select among contact folders. - Action **Outlook Get Event** Retrieves the full details of a specific calendar event by its id from a user's outlook calendar, provided the event exists. - Action **Outlook Get Message** Retrieves a specific email message by its id from the specified user's outlook mailbox. use the 'select' parameter to include specific fields like 'internetmessageheaders' for filtering automated emails. - Action **Outlook Get Profile** Retrieves the microsoft outlook profile for a specified user. - Action **Outlook Get Schedule** Retrieves free/busy schedule information for specified email addresses within a defined time window. - Action **Outlook List Contacts** Retrieves a user's microsoft outlook contacts, from the default or a specified contact folder. - Action **Outlook List Events** Retrieves events from a user's outlook calendar via microsoft graph api, supporting pagination, filtering, property selection, sorting, and timezone specification. - Action **Outlook List Mail Folders** Tool to list a user's top-level mail folders. use when you need folders like inbox, drafts, sent items; set include hidden folders=true to include hidden folders. - Action **Outlook List Messages** Retrieves a list of email messages from a specified mail folder in an outlook mailbox, with options for filtering (including by conversationid to get all messages in a thread), pagination, and sorting; ensure 'user id' and 'folder' are valid, and all date/time strings are in iso 8601 format. - Action **Outlook Move Message** Move a message to another folder within the specified user's mailbox. this creates a new copy of the message in the destination folder and removes the original message. - Action **Outlook Reply Email** Sends a plain text reply to an outlook email message, identified by `message id`, allowing optional cc and bcc recipients. - Action **Outlook Search Messages** Searches messages in a microsoft 365 or enterprise outlook account mailbox, supporting filters for sender, subject, attachments, pagination, and sorting by relevance or date. - Action **Outlook Send Email** Sends an email with subject, body, recipients, and an optional attachment via microsoft graph api; attachments require a non-empty file with valid name and mimetype. - Action **Outlook Update Calendar Event** Updates specified fields of an existing outlook calendar event. - Action **Outlook Update Contact** Updates an existing outlook contact, identified by `contact id` for the specified `user id`, requiring at least one other field to be modified. - Action **Outlook Update Email** Updates specified properties of an existing email message; `message id` must identify a valid message within the specified `user id`'s mailbox. - Action **Update Mailbox Settings** Tool to update mailbox settings for the signed-in user. use when you need to configure automatic replies, default time zone, language, or working hours. example: schedule automatic replies for vacation. - Action **Access User Specific Brand Templates List** This year, brand template ids will change; integrations storing them must update within 6 months. also, api use requires canva enterprise membership. - Action **Create Canva Design With Optional Asset** Create a new canva design using a preset or custom dimensions, and add an asset with `asset id` from a user's project using relevant apis. - Action **Create Design Comment In Preview Api** This api is in preview and may change without notice; integrations using it won't pass review. it allows creating comments on a design, with a limit of 1000 comments per design. - Action **Create User Or Sub Folder** This api creates a folder in a canva user's projects at the top level or within another folder, returning the new folder's id and additional details upon success. - Action **Delete Asset By Id** You can delete an asset by specifying its `assetid`. this operation mirrors the behavior in the canva ui. deleting an item moves it to the trash. deleting an asset doesn't remove it from designs that already use it. - Action **Fetch Canva Connect Signing Public Keys** The api for verifying canva webhooks, 'connect/keys,' is in preview, meaning unstable, not for public integrations, and provides a rotating jwk for signature verification to prevent replay attacks. cache keys for efficiency. - Action **Fetch Current User Details** Returns the user id, team id, and display name of the user account associated with the provided access token. - Action **Fetch Design Metadata And Access Information** Gets the metadata for a design. this includes owner information, urls for editing and viewing, and thumbnail information. - Action **Get Design Export Job Result** Get the outcome of a canva design export job; if done, receive download links for the design’s pages. for details, visit the create design export job api documentation. - Action **Initiates Canva Design Export Job** Canva's new job feature exports designs in multiple formats using a design id, with provided download links. the export status can be tracked via an api. exports with 'pro' quality may fail if the design contains unpaid premium elements. - Action **List Design Pages With Pagination** Preview api for canva: subject to unannounced changes and not for public integrations. lists metadata for design pages with optional `offset` and `limit`; not applicable to all design types. - Action **List Folder Items By Type With Sorting** Lists the items in a folder, including each item's `type`. folders can contain: - other folders. - designs, such as instagram posts, presentations, and documents (canva docs). - image assets. - Action **List User Designs** Provides a summary of canva user designs, includes search filtering, and allows showing both self-created and shared designs with sorting options. - Action **Move Item To Specified Folder** Transfers an item to a different folder by specifying both the destination folder's id and the item's id. if the item is in various folders, an error occurs; manual relocation via canva ui is required. - Action **Remove Folder And Move Contents To Trash** Deletes a folder by moving the user's content to trash and reassigning other users' content to their top-level projects. - Action **Retrieve A Specific Design Comment** This preview api is subject to unannounced changes and can't be used in public integrations. it retrieves a comment, details of which are on canva help center. - Action **Retrieve Asset Metadata By Id** You can retrieve the metadata of an asset by specifying its `assetid`. - Action **Retrieve Folder Details By Id** Gets the name and other details of a folder using a folder's `folderid`. - Action **Retrieve User Profile Data** Currently, this returns the display name of the user account associated with the provided access token. more user information is expected to be included in the future. - Action **Update Asset S Name And Tags By Id** You can update the name and tags of an asset by specifying its `assetid`. updating the tags replaces all existing tags of the asset. - Action **Update Folder Details By Id** Updates a folder's details using its `folderid`. currently, you can only update a folder's name. - Action **Upload Asset From URL** Starts a job that uploads an image or video from a public URL into the user's Canva media library. Poll Fetch Asset Upload Job Status with the returned job ID to get the asset. ## Each app on its own - [ **Outlook** Outlook is Microsoft's email and calendaring platform integrating contacts and scheduling, enabling users to...](https://apiant.ai/connections/outlook) - [ **Canva** Canva offers a drag-and-drop design suite for creating social media graphics, presentations, and marketing...](https://apiant.ai/connections/canva) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Outlook - [ **Outlook to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-salesforce) - [ **Outlook to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-shopify) - [ **Outlook to Fergus** Fergus is a job management software for plumbers, electricians and other trades.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-fergus) - [ **Outlook to Google Cloud Run** Serverless platform for running containerized services and jobs on Google Cloud.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-google-cloud-run) - [ **Outlook to Groq** Groq is a provider of fast LPUs and cloud tools to accelerate AI inference at scale and low cost.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-groq) - [ **Outlook to Polar** Polar is a modern billing platform for developers & designers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-polar) ## More into Canva - [ **HubSpot to Canva** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-canva) - [ **Salesforce to Canva** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-canva) - [ **Slack to Canva** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-canva) - [ **Google Sheets to Canva** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-canva) - [ **Gmail to Canva** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-canva) - [ **Google Calendar to Canva** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-canva) Questions ## Outlook and Canva, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Outlook? Any of Outlook's 5 triggers in the catalog, including New Calendar Event, New Contact Added, New Outlook Message and New Sent Message. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Canva when something happens in Outlook? Any of Canva's 22 actions, including Create Canva Design With Optional Asset, Create Design Comment In Preview Api, Create User Or Sub Folder and Update Asset S Name And Tags By Id. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Canva to Outlook? Canva has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Outlook. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Canva's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Outlook or Canva? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.