With Albato, you can automate your workflows in Google Calendar. You can create, update and delete events on your calendar. Set up triggers to automatically get information about new events, changes in events and much more.
How to Connect Google Calendar to Albato?
To connect your Google Calendar to Albato, please follow the below instructions.
General instructions: https://albato.com/blog/publications/google-calendar-integrations-for-better-workflows
General Questions
What permissions are required to automate Google Calendar with Albato?
To automate your task on Google Calendar with Albato you need to have all the admin rights and permissions of the account to add, update or delete events on the calendar.
Why the automation is not receiving information from the trigger?
If your automation is not fetching information from the Google Calendar, please make sure that you are working with the correct calendar in the automation.
If the issue still persists, please contact our support team we will help you resolve it.
Why am I unable to get the participant details from the trigger?
To get the invited participants' details including Member Email Addresses and Participant Response Status please follow the example we have included below to set up the automation.
To get the participant details in the automation you will need to use the iterator tool as shown below:
Suppose you want to send the participant information from the new event trigger to telegram as shown in the below automation:
But you will notice that you cannot select the participant field when setting up the action:
The greyed-out field shows that this field returns an array of data therefore cannot be fetched directly and we will need to add the iterator tool in the automation:
guide for iterator tool: https://albato.com/blog/publications/iterator-tool
a. To add the iterator tool in the automation please follow these steps:
b. Now select the tool as shown here:
c. Now select the row and click on the save button:
d. Once you have added the iterator tool to the automation you can add the data from the row in your action:
e. Please check the below images to see how this workflow works:
Click on the save button and then run the automation by clicking the start button.
We have created this test event on the calendar as an example:
In the automation logs, you can see the data from the event is received as
The data about each participant is received as shown here:
On telegram, we received text as shown below:
Please get in touch with our support team if you need any help in the process.