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.
Request ride to next meeting
Asks you to pick from upcoming events from your calendar, gets the location, asks for total passengers, and requests a ride to your destination.
Scripting Actions
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.
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Get Details of Calendar Events
Extracts information from calendar events, including start date, end date, whether it’s an all day event, the calendar it belongs to, the location, whether it has alarms, the event duration, the organizer, the attendees, the URL, the title, the notes, & more.
Set Variable
Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.
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.
Request Ride
Requests a ride from the specified pickup location to a specified drop off location.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Request%20ride%20to%20next%20meeting
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Request%20ride%20to%20next%20meeting
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Request ride to next meeting”
end tell
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