This bot fires 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin, based upon an event on calendar matching the search term "". “If you judge a fish on its ability to set a meeting reminder…” All sounds pretty simple.īasically: Zapier checks my calendar for when a meeting with a certain name is coming, it then pulls the information from that event, juggles it round a bit, and then throws it into Slack once it looks pretty. We need to use the Formatter step to extract any important information we’ll need later on the Zoom meeting link and the URL for the agenda, from the description.Īfter these steps, we’ll finish off with an Action to post a new message in Slack and include some of the information in that message: location & agenda.
This app takes the information we’ve pushed in from Google Calendar and then lets us reformat it to make it easier to play with later. It will know what event I want it to track by simply adding a filter where the name of the event needs to match a set phrase. So we’ll set it to trigger 15 minutes before that event starts. This trigger means the automation fires in relation to a new event starting. We’re going to use Google Calendar as our first app, and use its trigger: Event Start. Zapier also builds some of its own mini-tools which you can use to complicate things, as we’ll see. Platforms choose to integrate with Zapier (or IFTTT, Integromat, Flow, etc) and build specific Triggers or Actions. It basically helps you connect different websites so that something happening in one can trigger something to happen in another.
For those not familiar with Zapier, it’s a third-party automation platform.
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