Introducing Agical.io, the smarter ICS file generator

[Jyotsna_Gupta1]

Hi Sanford Whiteman‌,

Pinging on agical again.

How can we set the recurrence to occur every fortnight? Or Can we set recurrence to occur after (n) days?

Thanks,

Jyotsna

[SanfordWhiteman]

Fortnight, meaning every 2 weeks? Isn't that already an option

recur=daily&recurinterval=14‍‍

[TrishVoskoSpear]

any updates to this? i went to FortRabbit and couldn't find Agical. 

Hi @SanfordWhiteman 

Is there a new way to do this besides using a 3rd party app like AddEvent or using a tool Like Kalinka to create a link? Main problem we have with these options is that in AddEvent or using Kalinka you can only put in description to use the link they received in confirmation and reminder emails. - you can't being in their personalized login URL via token - {{member.webinar url:default=edit me}}

I have users who want a super easy way to do that will also bring in the login url token  like the exisiting calendar token method can,

Also, I didn't find Agical.io on FortRabbit so thinking no longer there??

It seems no one has a solution yet but I thought if anyone would it would be you!

Trish

[SanfordWhiteman]

FortRabbit is just our hosting platform. Agical isn't not listed in their app directory or anything like that (didn't actually know they had one!).

Agical can do things none of these platforms can... the reason for Agical's alt_sep option is to allow {{member.webinar url}} to be used in ICS files/Gcal links.

[TrishVoskoSpear]

thanks @SanfordWhiteman 

the problem is having marketing users convert date/time to ISO to create tokens. I didn't find any converter out there that would do that for them if they entered in "normal date/time info."

I could create links for them but not really scalable - they are looking for a way they can create gcal links themselves easily - hence thinking about AddEvent or just using Kalinka and not being able to put in the webinar URL token. 

I was just hoping there was now a way for my users to do themselves without having to know about ISO, UTC times etc.   

right now they are just using provided Add to Calendar token but get complaints that they don't work for gcal. 

But starting to think no way for them to do themselves without. them learning some basic js stuff. 

thoughts?

[SanfordWhiteman]

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the problem is having marketing users convert date/time to ISO to create tokens.

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You could set up a Velocity {{my.token}} that does that, Velocity has full fluency in timezones and datetime patterns.

But if they just enter datetimes in a String field, any which way they want, that won't work. You'd still have to know what pattern they're using — can't parse just anything that might look like a date through somebody's eyes, you know?

It's better for users to learn how to format dates in the world-standard yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss pattern, it'll serve them well everywhere.

[Brad_Dambaugh]

Hello, I'm testing using Agical in Marketo by filling out an event form and triggering an email send to myself through a smart campaign. I included in my autoresponder email the Agical link that I built. I have two params that are working and a few Marketo tokens. The only param I can't seem to get to work is to have the reminder display in the .ics file that I open. Would you have any suggestions to what I could try to get it working. Is that param still working in the code base? Thanks for your help. Here is the Agical URL I have been testing and added to my autoresponder email I'm sending to myself.

Here are the links:

https://ics.agical.io/?subject=Proofpoint%20Event%20{{my.GN-01-Event Name}}&organizer=Proofpoint&reminder=30&location=https://proofpoint.zoom.us/j/96321770618?pwd=SVlwZmUzTjUzek9xMm9FQTYrVVMvdz09&description={{my.EM-04-Short Description}}&dtstart=2021-04-15T02:30:00Z&dtend=2021-04-15T03:30:00&attach=https://proofpoint.zoom.us/j/96321770618?pwd=SVlwZmUzTjUzek9xMm9FQTYrVVMvdz09/

https://ics.agical.io/?subject=Proofpoint%20Event%20{{my.GN-01-Event Name}}&organizer=Proofpoint&reminder=30&location=https://proofpoint.zoom.us/j/96321770618?pwd=SVlwZmUzTjUzek9xMm9FQTYrVVMvdz09&description={{my.EM-04-Short Description}}&dtstart=2021-04-15T02:30:00Z&dtend=2021-04-15T03:30:00&attach=https://proofpoint.zoom.us/j/96321770618?pwd=SVlwZmUzTjUzek9xMm9FQTYrVVMvdz09/;format=gcal;preencoded=false

Thanks!

[Jo_Pitts1]

@Brad_Dambaugh 

one thing from @SanfordWhiteman 's original blog post:

Google Calendar typically doesn't use the reminder time in the ICS file, instead using the lead's default reminder time. (For example, it'll set an alarm for 30m before instead of 45m before.) Better than no reminder at all! Yet sometimes Gcal does accept the "T-minus" time exactly as-is. Haven't been able to put my finger on what's different in those cases.

Are you viewing on GCal?  If so, maybe that's the problem?

Cheers

Jo

[Tom_Liolios4]

@SanfordWhiteman  hi there. The app agical.io seems to be down. As of this morning, all calendar links on our pages link to a 403 page.

Tried to reach out to Fortrabbit support, as this blog mentions it's hosted there: https://blog.teknkl.com/introducing-agical-io-the-smarter-ics-file-generator/

However, their support replied with: The domain you are mentioning agical.io does not seem to be registered here and also does not seem to have any DNS entries.

Could you verify whether this can be fixed? 

Thank you!

Tom

[Darshil_Shah1]

It seems to be working for me. I just tried the sample URL Sandy has posted in his Agical blog. Could you share the Agical URL for which you're getting the 403 error?