Recreating automation from Zapier

[Rayvern]

Hi All,

I was trying to recreate the scenario i did in zapier with no success here.

This is how the automation works

3 steps modules

1. Google Calendar will check the google calendar to see who is having birthday for the day
2. Then using the name of the birthday boy/girl use Google Contacts to find the phone number of the person
3. Send message to the person wishing happy birthday

My error is that while setting up the google calendar, Make.com cannot see the specific “Birthday” calendar

How should i work around this or rediscover the google calendar?

thank you

[biswa]

Hi @Rayvern ,

This seems easy.

Try refreshing the connections.

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

@Rayvern

My error is that while setting up the google calendar, Make.com cannot see the specific “Birthday” calendar

How should i work around this or rediscover the google calendar?

Welcome to the Make community!

Yes, that is possible. You’ll need a minimum of one module to get the birthday events from your primary calendar.

This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements.

Module Export - quick import into your scenario

You can copy and paste this module export into your scenario. This will import the modules (with fields/settings/filters) shown in my screenshots above.

1. Move your mouse over the line of code below. Copy the JSON by clicking the copy button on the right of the code, which looks like this:
   

2. Enter your scenario editor. Press ESC to close any dialogs. Press CTRLV (paste keyboard shortcut for Windows) to paste directly in the editor.

3. Click on each imported module and re-save it for validation. There may be some errors prompting you to remap some variables and connections.

JSON module export — paste this directly in your scenario

{"subflows":[{"flow":[{"id":1,"module":"google-calendar:makeApiCall","version":5,"parameters":{"__IMTCONN__":1},"mapper":{"url":"/v3/calendars/primary/events","method":"GET","headers":[{"key":"Content-Type","value":"application/json"}],"qs":[{"key":"eventTypes","value":"birthday"},{"key":"timeMin","value":"{{formatDate(now; \"YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z\"; \"Australia/Perth\")}}"},{"key":"singleEvents","value":"true"},{"key":"maxResults","value":"2500"},{"key":"orderBy","value":"startTime"}]},"metadata":{"designer":{"x":1608,"y":-2497,"name":"Get Birthdays"},"parameters":[{"name":"__IMTCONN__","type":"account:google","label":"Connection","required":true}]}}]}],"metadata":{"version":1}}

Note: Did you know you can reduce the size of blueprints and module export code like the above, using the Make Blueprint Scrubber?

You’ll need a minimum of three modules and a filter:

This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.