Find Calendar Events
Searches for the calendar events in your library that match the given criteria. Allows for sorting, changing the order, and limiting the number passed as a result.
Join my next meeting
Looks for the URL in your next meeting and asks if you want to open it.
Actions Used
Get Upcoming Events
Gets upcoming calendar events, ordered from nearest to farthest away in time.
Choose a calendar, number of events, and the day to retrieve from.
Show in Calendar
Shows the date or calendar event passed as input in the Calendar app.
Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
Get URLs from Input
Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Show Alert
Displays an alert with a title, a message, and two buttons. If the user selects the OK button, the shortcut continues. The cancel button stops the shortcut.
Nothing
This action does nothing and produces no output. It is useful to separate blocks of actions, or to ensure that no input is passed to the next action.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Join%20my%20next%20meeting
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Join%20my%20next%20meeting
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Join my next meeting”
end tell
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Copy my availability
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Opens Freeform, then opens Safari in another window (and in Slide Over on iPad).
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