Introducing Agical.io, the smarter ICS file generator

Hi @sanfordwhiteman  Thanks for creating this tool. I would like to create a calendar ics file for a recurring teams meeting. 

Below is the URL I created but  I'm facing the following issues:

• the time is not showing up correctly on my calendar. It should be at 5 pm CET time for one hour 
• the link to the teams meeting (attachment) is not working properly, it seems to be cutting after "context".
• I was hoping to have this meeting bi-weekly. Is that an option? 

thanks for your help again! 

@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

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

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

Hi Sanford, I've been testing your Agical.io service and it's very helpful to generate dynamic ICS files.

Could you tell me if there is a way to use the service without the "Z" GMT timezone hard coded in the ICS file. 

The reason is that we have date and time fields which are in coded in "local time" for a given client which already takes account Daylight Savings via the CRM. These fields work for text based appointment email reminders, but we would like to create an Add-To-Calendar function using local time.

Just for added context, we do have the DateTime ISO standard field, but its getting fed into Marketo via API which converts it to CST/CDT. To make this work for Australian time zones which also has Daylight Savings at a different time of year, I tried using the inbound/outbound time zone offset, and also tried manual offset, but i think there is no common reference point so that they adjust automatically all year round.

So far couldn't find a way to account for the two different daylight savings periods (Marketo USA + Australia), so I'm interested to know about the local time calendar option.

First time poster, I researched a lot on the topic, so hope this is right place. All other ideas welcome, we do a lot of appointment based communications, so I'll share our learnings as we go.

Hi there,

I would like to have a url in the calendar description. The problem is the URL has UTM codes in there using & , it works perfectly for ics file but not for gcal. Even with %26 or & . It stops the description where the first & appears. I tried for both the beta/alt_sep version and the regular version of the agical link. 

 http://ics.agical.io/beta/alt_sep/?subject=This is a test: Again;description=Click here to attend: https://www.google.com/?utm_source=Overhere&utm_medium=testthis&utm_campaign=44444  You can test https://www.google.com/;dtstart=2019-09-05T15:00:00z;dtend=2019-09-05T16:00:00z;organizer=@this.com;location=Here;format=gcal;preencoded=true‍

 http://ics.agical.io/beta/alt_sep/?subject=This is a test: Again;description=Click%20here%20to%20attend%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F%2F15345%2F312187%3Futm_source=Overhere%26utm_medium=testthis%26utm_campaign=44444  You can test https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com;dtstart=2019-09-05T15:00:00z;dtend=2019-09-05T16:00:00z;organizer=@this.com;location=Here;format=gcal;preencoded=true‍

How do I make the & work here?

Thanks again, but you said you changed GCal mode so it replaces \n with <br> automatically. It didn't change automatically. If i use %0D%0A it line breaks for Gcal, but breaks the ics description after %0D%0A. \n works for ics but /n prints in gcal. There isn't a one code solution for line breaks in both formats yet?

I need to have line breaks in an event description for the calendar links in both outlook and google calendar. Looking to having my cake and eating it too. 

The event description is being used for both the google calendar link and the ics file link. \n works for Outlook but not for Google Calendar, <br> works for Google Calendar and not for Outlook. 

Is there one magical line break code thats compatible with both? Thanks for your time.

You're embedding an unencoded URL in a URL, so you need to use the alternate query delimiter syntax (this isn't something specific to Agical, it's always the case).

Did you read the articles at https://blog.teknkl.com/tag/agical ?

Hey Sanford,

I have a couple of questions that I couldn't fine addressed anywhere but if it is sorry for re-asking!

1. I'm having issues using the recur with Outlook. It works fine when I open the file into my iCal but when I open into Outlook it says all meetings occur in the past.

http://ics.agical.io/?subject=Submit+Your+Stats&organizer=Results+Creator+Bootcamp&reminder=0&location=simemembers.com&d…

2. Is there a way to set an end date for a recurring calendar? I tried setting the dtend but, at least in iCal, it just keeps going. The desire would be for the event to recur on the 1st every month and the final one to be on 02/01/2020. Here's what I tried:

http://ics.agical.io/?subject=Submit+Your+Stats&organizer=Results+Creator+Bootcamp&reminder=0&location=simemembers.com&d…