Add New Event

Creates a new event and adds it to the selected calendar.

Score
Type
InterActivity
Expertise
4
4/5
Type
InterActivity
Expertise

Action Information

Parameters

Title: text
Location: address (optional)
Calendar: dropdown
Date: Start Date, End Date
All day: boolean
Alert: At time of event, 5, 15, 30 minutes, 1, 2 hours, 1, 2 days, 1 week before, custom, ask when run
Notes: text

Input

Does not take input

Result

The new event

Details

Type
Interactivity
Expertise Needed
Matthew's Score
4/5
Category
Date Added
12/02/2015
Identifier
is.workflow.actions.addnewevent

Notes

Title
The title of this event.
Calendar
The calendar to add this event to.
Alert
Optionally, when to show an alert to notify me of this event.
Notes
Optionally, a description for this event.

Comments

Use Ask When Run on the Calendar field to choose as the shortcut is running.

Fill out the Location field with an Address variable from one of the Location/maps actions.

Expand Date to see the Start Date/End Date fields.

Ignoring the Alert field will assign a default alert.

Use Repeat With Each and Add New Event inside the repeat loop to batch-add events. Try using Adjust Date before End Repeat to increment by one day through each loop.

Needs repeating options.

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