Connect Form with Google Calendar

Use Google Calendar Integration in Aliveforms

Connect with Google Calendar in Aliveforms

Aliveforms offers Google Calendar integration, providing a seamless way to manage events and attendees directly from form submissions.

Prerequisite

Connection of platform Google created. Learn how to create.
If using service account in connection then service account should have Google Calendar and Gmail API enable and domain wide delegations enabled.

Create new Google Calendar Integration

To create new Google Calendar integration in Aliveforms, Either click on New Integration from dashboard or browse Integrations and click New button.

* Select `Google Calendar Integration`

Setup in Aliveforms

In the Aliveforms Integration Editor, Google Calendar integration setup requires:

Connection
Calendar ID
Mode (Add Attendee or New Event)
Collection Tags

Configuring

Start by selecting connection from dropdown. If you have not created one, create new.

Selecting form helper for template format

From form dropdown, you can select the form to autocomplete collection index template format.

Google Calendar ID

If connection is authenticated with Oauth, click on Load to load list of calendars.
If your calendar is not in list or connection is authenticated with service account, obtain and paste the id of calendar.

Mode

It is the purpose of integration. It can be one of these

Create Event
Add Attendee to Event

Event ID

If mode is set to Add Attendee, event id is required to read.

Select a Google Calendar id first and click on load below Event Id dropdown.

Collection Index In form, the screen those are marked collectable, they have index. form example

Screen Index	Screen	Collectable	Collection Index
0	Welcome (info)	No
1	Email (text input)	Yes	0
2	Ok (info)	No
3	Name (text input)	Yes	1

Email is [[COLLECTION.0]]
Name is [[COLLECTION.1]]

If screen in Compound screen e.g. Contact, Address, Compound Inputs, Dynamic List, it is required to provide sub index, For example

Screen Index	Screen	Collectable	Collection Index
0	Welcome (info)	No
1	Contact (contact input)	Yes	0

Email is [[COLLECTION.0.3]]
Name is [[COLLECTION.0]] [[COLLECTION.1]]

Collection Tags

Collection tags are to configure dynamic information for the integration. For Google Calendar Event Attendee, use these collection tags:

EMAIL: Represents the email address of the attendee for the Google Calendar event. Format should be Name<test@test.com>.

NAME: Represents the name or display name of the attendee for the Google Calendar event.

COMMENT: Represents any additional comments or notes related to the attendee for the Google Calendar event.

For creating a new event in Google Calendar:

ATTENDEES.displayName: Represents the display name of the attendee for the new event.

ATTENDEES.email: Represents the email address of the attendee for the new event. Format should be Name<test@test.com>.

ATTENDEES.comment: Represents any additional comments or notes related to the attendee for the new event.

SUMMARY: Represents the summary or title of the new event.

START.dateTime: Represents the start date and time of the new event. Format should be in RFC3339.

END.dateTime: Represents the end date and time of the new event. Format should be in RFC3339.

DESCRIPTION: Represents any additional details or description for the new event.

START.timeZone: Represents the time zone for the start time of the new event.

END.timeZone: Represents the time zone for the end time of the new event.

Save the integration

Click on Save icon to save the integration data.