Automators 1: Automating Calendar Events

[sylumer]

@Jjm

Do you have to use a variable for the date?

You could use a magic variable instead.

@Jjm

in the “Add New Event” it says “date” next to the time, could you just use a ask when run? would that do the same thing?

Not quite.you could use an ask when run to specify the date and time and do it twice. Once for the start and once for the end. The approach the author set out asks you the date just once and make use of preset times. It is obviously less flexible, but a faster entry - it befits being a template as described.

@Jjm

How do you get the time to stay set to the specified times? when I try to make an add new event on my own it will give me the time the it is now, not the time that I have in the event.

Hopefully the answers above and this question together give you the insight to understand the answer to this question… after all, that’s the intent behind the original by the looks of it.

[boris]

Hi, just finished this episode. Thank you. I especially like David’s concept of event confirmations. Sadly I couldn’t get the Workflow shortcut working. Is someone here can help please with 2 questions.

1. Why we have to enter email password and technical configuration into Workflow. Why it didn’t use system email compose controller like other iOS apps. Since it is a manual step, I don’t really get why the Workflow app demands our email password. Once I’ve added my email password, there’s no clear way to remove it, so I had to change it in Hover.

2. The script only worked first time. When I ran it again, and again, it skips the beginning actions and goes into “Who are the recipients?” action.

Thank you.

[RosemaryOrchard]

@boris

Why we have to enter email password and technical configuration into Workflow.

This is to enable background mail sending, it’s not required. Tapping the settings icon on the “Send email” action (top right, next to the button to delete that action), will let you delete an account from Shortcuts.

@boris

When I ran it again, and again, it skips the beginning actions and goes into “Who are the recipients?” action.

Did you add any filters to the find calendar events action? If it doesn’t find any calendar events then it won’t bring up the choice.

[boris]

Thank you Rosemary, I think it doesn’t find any events. I found Mail settings too.

[Jonathan_Davis]

Wanted to check in to ensure this still worked. I have my work calendar dates that I want to put into my Family Events shared calendar. Is all working?

[monster94]

Holy thread bump, batman (and nuke this if it’s out of order), but this was the first thread that came up when I looked for adding multiple, non-repeating calendar events to Fantastical. Do the tips here still work, or has something changed? Before I potentially wipe out my whole calendar, I want to check!

Thanks, y’all.

[Thomas_Bryla]

Late to the party as I’ve just discovered this podcast!
I’m trying out the Calendar Event Templates for shortcuts but every time I make a fourth entry and duplicate the start and end time actions the connections break

This results in the new event not being run as the end times are corrupt.
How do I fix the connections for input and output between the two?