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How can I send a summary from the "Vacation" calendar to a Slack channel?

  • October 4, 2024
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Is it possible to automate daily sending of messages to a Slack channel with all Google Calendar events scheduled for that day (from one specific company calendar)? Not only with those that start on a given day. 

I would like to create a summary that would show all people who are on vacation/out of the office on a given day. A summary that would be sent as a message to users on a Slack channel every day at a specific time.

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • October 4, 2024

Hi @A. Sobusiak 

Try creating a GCal Custom Action with the help of AI to retrieve all Events for a date.

Help: https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/16277139110157-Create-a-custom-action

 

OR

 

You can use this Zap action: GCal - API Request

GCal API: https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/guides/overview

 

 


SamB
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • October 9, 2024

Hi @A. Sobusiak 👋

There’s an open feature request for the ability to search for multiple events discussed which is what you’d need here to get all events for a specific day so I’ve added your vote to that feature request. I can’t make any promises as to when it will be implemented but adding your vote will help increase it’s priority and ensure you get notified if and when it’s added.

In the meantime, I wanted to check whether either of Troy’s suggestions here helped you get all the Google Calendar events for the day? If so, we’d love to know which one worked best for you! 🙂

If not and you’re still stuck on this just let us know and we’ll be happy to assist further!