Outlook context menu with multiple calendar events selected - c#

I'm writing an outlook Add-In in VS2017. I need a context menu to appear when 1 or more calendar events are selected. I can get a context menu to appear when a single calendar event is selected with the following XML:
<customUI onLoad="Ribbon_Load" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui" loadImage="GetImage">
<contextMenus>
<contextMenu idMso="ContextMenuCalendarItem">
<button id="MyContextMenuCalendarItem"
label="Copy To Google Calendar"
image="Google_Calendar_Logo.png"
onAction="CopyToGoogleCalendar_Click"/>
</contextMenu>
</contextMenus>
</customUI>
If I use the idMso "ContextMenuMultipleItems", the context menu will appear when multiple of any type (email, calendar, etc.) is selected. I can not figure out the correct idMso for context menu with multiple calendar events selected.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Turns out that using the "ContextMenuMultipleItems" idMso works with the added "getVisible" method. My XML now looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<customUI onLoad="Ribbon_Load" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui" loadImage="GetImage">
<contextMenus>
<contextMenu idMso="ContextMenuCalendarItem">
<button id="MyContextMenuCalendarItem"
label="Copy To Google Calendar"
image="Google_Calendar_Logo.png"
onAction="CopyToGoogleCalendar_Click"/>
</contextMenu>
<contextMenu idMso="ContextMenuMultipleItems">
<button id="MyContextMenuMultipleItems"
label="Copy To Google Calendar"
image="Google_Calendar_Logo.png"
getVisible="ContextMenuMultipleItems_IsVisible"
onAction="CopyToGoogleCalendar_Click"/>
</contextMenu>
</contextMenus>
</customUI>
and the ContextMenuMultipleItems_IsVisible looks like:
public bool ContextMenuMultipleItems_IsVisible(Office.IRibbonControl control)
{
if (control.Context is Outlook.Selection)
{
Outlook.Selection selection = control.Context as Outlook.Selection;
if (selection[1] is Outlook.AppointmentItem)
return true;
}
return false;
}

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