Send google calendar invites

[brandonley]

Users of my app have the possibility to register for events. Once they do, I want the information added to their google calendar.

I looked at Zapier and it asks me to log into my gmail account to setup a zap. If my understanding is correct this is not what I want as all my app’s user would have to be integrated individually.

So the question is how do I get these events in my app users google calendars?

Maybe it is just a matter of sending them a calendar invite? If so, how would I do this?

Thanks alot.

[Jeff_Hager]

Add to Calendar

I found this which is really interesting. Haven’t had a chance to play with it much. It’s an old article, but the website works and appears to create ics files just by feeding it all of the information in a URL. I would probably recommend using https:// instead of http://.

Sending a calendar invite by use of glide and users email

Does anyone have experience in sending an calendar invitation to a meeting room (which will confirm/reject depending on the availability of the meeting room) in Exchange by using the users own email account ? The meeting room has its own email address It is e.g. possible to create via an url with a tool like agical.io?

[brandonley]

http://agical.io/ is unreachable! Looks like google has an API for such tasks.

How to "Add guest" to event via google calendar API?

Anybody tried that?

[Jeff_Hager]

I think the agical link still works. It just doesn’t have a front page. I just tried and if you feed it the right parameters it still gives you an ics file to download.

[Robert_Petitto]

I’d use a Google Calendar add-on. I’ve used ones like event-o-matic to automatically create calendar events/invites to the user.

[bshlain]

We’ve piloted integration with Google Calendar in our moskvarenta.glideapp.io (mobile app for housing rent for Russian market). An owner can schedule a time slot, and a possible renter can book a visit. I create the task in a calendar and after renter chooses a time slot he is added as a guest. I’m going to share new version with this function next week. Developed in G-Suite with Google Script.

[Robert_Petitto]

My bookme app meetwithme.glideapp.io uses Zapier integration to allow user to add to calendar.

[shchc]

@Robert_Petitto I just tried your app + Zap and I haven’t received an invite. Is that active or just there for demo purposes? I’m going to add something similar to my booking app, but I’m going to add the ability to add participants now that the Zapier action can support so many fields.

That being said, do you know if I can send an array to Zapier as a single field? I’m thinking of getting people to enter individual emails into an array and then use that column as a Zapier field for the “To” addresses in the invite.

[Robert_Petitto]

Hm. I’ll look at it. It should be working…just tested it yesterday. Stay tuned!

[Robert_Petitto]

Ya…it works:

[shchc]

So it sent the invite to you? My expectation was that sending an invite would send it to me

[Robert_Petitto]

It does. I sent that one to myself

[Robert_Petitto]

Hm…is your name Kyle? If so…I had the Zap error out because it didn’t have the End Time configured correctly. I’ll take a look.

[Robert_Petitto]

Try again. Can you also create a brand new meeting so I can see your entry?

[shchc]

Will do. And yes, that was me

[shchc]

Worked!

[Robert_Petitto]

Awesome…for whatever reason, your first date came through with date/month reversed…European format?

[shchc]

I’m in Canada but who knows what may have happened.

[Phil_Jackson]

Hi Jeff.

I’ve had a good look at Agical.io and have managed to create a string to send to it based upon some fields in a simple app however the time it adds within the ical event is 1hr out. I’m assuming this is a timezone issue and british summer time thing?
Here’s how my string looks at the moment.
http://ics.agical.io/?subject=12%20Main%20Street&organizer=My%20Jobs&reminder=15&location=12%20Main%20Street&dtstart=2020-06-25T14:00:00+00:00&duration=2H

Their website does have an example string which I did try and it worked so I based my string from this example:
http://ics.agical.io/?subject=Meet%20{{company.Account Owner First Name}}&organizer=Sandy&reminder=45&location=Sandy%27s%20Desk&dtstart=2016-10-26T15:00:00-04:00&dtend=2016-10-26T16:00:00-04:00&attach=http://www.example.com/

I know there’s many ways to achieve syncing but this option seems simple if I can get it to work!
Thanks

[Jeff_Hager]

I honestly haven’t used agical myself, so I don’t know the ins and outs of it. It’s just something I found while helping someone look for a solution. And with that it looks like it was some side project for whoever created it.

These are the only other agical related posts in the forum. Maybe there will be more information there.

Add to Calendar

We maintain our organisation wide calendar through glideapps. It would be really nice if a certain event could be added to the user’s calendar. Sort of a ics file. This feature could be added as an ‘action’ in the dropdown.

Sending a calendar invite by use of glide and users email

Does anyone have experience in sending an calendar invitation to a meeting room (which will confirm/reject depending on the availability of the meeting room) in Exchange by using the users own email account ? The meeting room has its own email address It is e.g. possible to create via an url with a tool like agical.io?