I am new to Make and I would like to get an advice on this automation:
I need to connect a Zoho Creator application, which has a vacation tracker, with our employees’ Google Calendars. Specifically, when an employee creates a new vacation record in the tracker, an event should automatically be created in their Google Calendar, blocking out their vacation days. The vacation tracker has a dropdown box where the user selects their name, the type of leave, the start date, and the end date of their vacation and that’s all. I am able to create this for one single user, but do not know how to set this up if I have several users with different email addresses.
I think the easiest way would be for all of them to give your account write access to their calendars, then you can just use your account (that is connected to Make), to create those events on their behalf.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
thank you - we have our calendars mutually shared but what does this practically mean? Will I have all my colleagues’ vacation days blocked out in my own calendar too?
One more question – I need to put the employee’s name, who entered the vacation, into the ‘Event Name’ in the calendar. Currently, it only returns the text ‘collection’. In the vacation tracker, it’s a dropdown menu with employee’s names. How do I ensure that the specific name shows up in the calendar event’s title? See the attached screenshot.
Thank you very much! I’m currently taking the Make Academy to be able to set this up
Petra
I don’t think so, as long as you map their email correctly in the Calendar ID field.
Give it a try to see if it works?
You can manually type in the mapping into the module fields.
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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
