Add a reminder to the ICS calendar token

[Anonymous]

Hello,  I love being able to do ICS files through Marketo now! The only thing missing is the ability to set a reminder.  I like to have reminders built in to my calendar files in an attempt to increase attendance to my web events.  My standard is for 15-minutes.  I'd love it if the Marketo token automatically added in a 15-minute reminder for me.  Does anyone else feel that way?

[Nicholas_Manojl]

Yes! Just followed you.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Just went public with Agical.io (formerly MagICS): http://blog.teknkl.com/introducing-agical-io-the-smarter-ics-file-generator/

[Nicholas_Manojl]

how sweet was that shout out!

[SanfordWhiteman]

I was gonna do just "NM" but I risked it!

[Anonymous]

Hey Sanford,

I love the ICS generator from Agical.io, but having one major issue.

The time I am feeding is already in the recepient's time zone: i.e. 2017-01-03 16:30:00 (they are EST BTW).

However, every time they get the invite, it goes to 10:30, instead of 4:30 and have checked that their calendar settings are set to EST.

Why does it translate to UTC?  Is there anything I can do with the code to not have it translate the time, but just present it as is in people's calendars??

Here is the code I'm using:

http://ics.agical.io/?subject=Signpost%20Demo&dtstart={{lead.Demo Appointment Display}}&dtend={{lead.Demo Appointment End}}&attach=http://get.signpost.com/join/

Example of what it would look like with the tokens populated:

http://ics.agical.io/?subject=Signpost%20Demo&dtstart=2017-01-03 16:30:00&dtend=2017-01-03 17:00:00&attach=http://get.signpost.com/join/

Thanks!!

Ben

[SanfordWhiteman]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for using Agical. Glad to see it getting some use!

The reason datetimes are assumed to be UTC is it's best practice to store them that way, and if not, you can convert them before creating a link: in an email, using Velocity, or in an LP, using JavaScript.