Hi @elian I have 2 questions regarding your plug in :
Im using postmark as email send on my bubble app, will it work ? ( I guess yes, but i just want to check)
Second : My use case is as follow : as a user, i can create a meeting date for a customer (the user will receive an email with the meeting informations and the .ICS file on the email to add the meeting on its calendar. Question : Frequently, the meetings are cancelled or updated → How is it working when we talk about updating a meeting on the ICS files ? is it doable ? or do i have to cancel, then create a new meeting ? Thanks !
Hi @Alter345 : I do not have a detailed knowledge of Postmark, but I am sure they can handle attachements, including ics files.
Regarding meeting updates or cancellations, I am afraid that this is not possible with this plugin.
For such use cases, I think that the only solution is to access your users’ google calendar, or outlook calendar…
@elian hope all is well! Not sure if this is due to the responsive engine or Firefox but even in your demo app I was not able to use the ical button on Firefox mobile on iOS. Clicking the button runs a workflow but nothing happens. I’ll send a video if you’d like? Is this a known issue?
although the file is generated, and the link works (verified by debugger), it is not showing up in the attachment of the email (the email sent has no attachment), is there a fix for that?
Hi @repomtaiwan , may I ask which tool you are using to send your emails ?
Indeed some email plugins require the file in a base64 format instead of the file URL.
In this case, instead of using “This invitation creator’s ics_file_uploaded”, you should use “This invitation creator’s ics_file_base64” in the “file” field of your email action.
Hope this helps !
Hi @elian thx for the response, it’s working well for me now. However, using Google calendar, the “location” doesn’t show up, is there an issue in the backend? It works for Outlook and other options.
Hi @repomtaiwan : I have re-run tests on our latest plugin version and the location does show up in Google calendar (see demo here: https://add-to-cal-demo.bubbleapps.io/version-test/calendar_events_new) .
And I have never received any other notification about this issue.
Could you please send me DM with a link where I can test your app ? This would help me understand what happens in your case.
Hey @elian ! Thank you for your plugin! I have one question, I want to create a isc with auto accepting feature, set it as yes, changed email header so it looks like this:
however it didn’t work, I still have to click “add to calendar” button so to see the event there. I compared my event header with the another website’s that actually adds events to my calendar, they are the same so my assumption is that there might be something in the plugin’s settings. Do you know what it might be?
Hi @dariacherniakk , from what I know it is not possible toi create ics files with auto-accepting features without having a connection to the user’s calendar. So not possible with my plugin, which works without oAuth…
@elian Did something change / break with the upload action? The workflow was working as expected previously and I didn’t change anything in my app but I’m now running into an error with the Uploader - Upload a file action. I get an error “bad request from client”
It also only appears to happen on the live site, not version-test, but the versions are in sync.
Hi @pdon, could you please let me know which plugin you are using to upload the ics file ? I do not remember creating an uploader plugin and there is no such action in the “Add to calendar” plugin, as the plugin automatically uploads the file into your Bubble app, so no need for this additional step.
I would recommend that you directly use the file uploaded by the plugi instead of using this additional step.
Just get the URL from ics_file_uploaded resulting form the plugin.
Oh OK, sorry, I wrote this more than 3 years ago and forgot about it!
Since then I have added the ics_file_uploaded in the plugin, so no need to re-upload it.
In your second workflow you can just grab the “Invitation creator’s - ics_file_uploaded” and that’s all you need !
You can remove the uploader step.
Ok thanks, I’ll give that a shot. @elian Is there any way to set/change the filename for the .ics file now? Previously that was set in the Uploader - upload file action.
This plugin is awesome and I have managed to get it to work perfectly with my app on desktop. However, it doesn’t seems to push the repeat info to google calendar app on mobile.
It does work with Apple Calendar app. And of course since my calendars are synced, the event will then show in Google Calendar with the repeats.
I tested this with the demo app and that doesn’t work either. Is this a fundamental limitation of the plugin?
I’m running into this problem too. It works beautifully except none of the repeating field values are sent to the invite (recurring, frequency, interval, etc.)
Following up to my own comment. I managed to sort this out in case it’s helpful to anyone in the future.
The fields for the Create_Invitation action are case sensitive. To make a cleaner front-end, I had changed “MONTHLY” to “Monthly”, etc. This caused the repeating fields to be ignored. I fixed the problem by adding the :uppercase text type to the expression.
Same goes for the weekday fields, e.g. “SU”, “MO”, etc. So if you want to make them tidier on the front-end you have to make sure the values in the workflow action are uppercase and truncated to two characters.
Now I just wish the plugin could add support for the EXDATE and RECURRENCE-ID fields, as it would then be possible to accommodate cancellations and one-time rescheduling of repeating events.
Hi @elian – love your plugin, and all seems to work great on development version of my app! But in the version that is deployed to live, I get the error displayed on the screenshot below. I have tried to work through all of the possible issues, but all looks OK in my workflows and setup (and it works perfectly on /version-test). I tried to get in touch via the Calendly link posted above, but it seems it has changed again perhaps. Could you please assist? Thanks so much!!
Responding to my own post of yesterday, after slamming my head against a wall all day, I see now that this question was raised by pdon earlier this year. These posts were for some reason hidden/collapsed to me when I first opened the thread, and I hadn’t opened them initially because they looked to me as though they related to a different topic.
For anyone coming to this later on who also doesn’t initially find those threads and has an issue where the plugin works in development but not on the live site, the resolution for this issue is to simply use “this invitationcreator’s ics_file_uploaded” as the file (attachment) when you send the email with the calendar invitation, rather than using the uploader-upload file action as it states to do in the instructions on the plugin page.
