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sg-3
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May 28, 2024
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Add a Calendar invite using CTA on Marketo

  • May 28, 2024
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Hi,

We have a user who would like to send a Calendar Invite to users in a Marketo email.

 

Is there a CTA (Call to Action) kind of button which can invoke the Calendar invite and add the person to the event. It should update their Google Calendar? (we use Google email and Calendar).

 

Is this possible, if so pls. let us know the steps to create?

 

I have tried this ics file invite, but it does not add the event to the Google Calender.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/marketo/using/product-docs/email-marketing/general/functions-in-the-editor/create-a-calendar-event-ics-file

 

Help appreciated.

 

thanks

-Sree

 

 

 

    4 replies

    Nicole_B_25
    Nicole_B_25
    Level 2
    May 28, 2024

    Hello,

    I used a calendar invite in one of my recent campaigns and had to use Kalinka.  This was recommended to me by one of our contractors.  It worked great.  I had two links in my email to add it to Google Calendar and one for Outlook.  Kalinka allowed the contact to add it to their Google calendar. 

     

    https://kalinka.tardate.com/

    Nicole Behnke
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      lizmalinowski
      Level 2
      May 29, 2024

      @sg-3 I used this method recently and it worked great: https://blog.teknkl.com/introducing-agical-io-the-smarter-ics-file-generator/. Then, I created a program text token (not a calendar file) and added the calendar link starting with ics. When I created the email send, I used my CTA module and for the link, I added the https:// outside of the token. So it looked like this:  https://{{my.nonGoogleics}} . Using the article I linked above, I created a non-Google calendar link and then a Google calendar link by adding &format=gcal to the end of my ics link.

        PascaleC
        PascaleC
        Level 2
        September 6, 2024

        @lizmalinowski  Thanks for sharing this! 

        I'm also trying to use agical and everything seems to be working (date, subject etc...) except for the meeting URL. We are hosting these sessions on Teams on a biweekly basis, so I created my Teams event and have added it to the description of the magical link and also as an attachment. in both cases, it doesn't not seem to be working. Any workaround this? 

        https://ics.agical.io/?subject= join us here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_NDgwMGJhZDAtNzZlMy00MDZhLWIzYzAtODcwNjgzNWI3ZTg1@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%227894512c-f554-4de4-bff2-dec418150d4c%22,%22Oid%22:%226cfc80a5-968a-4322-951d-d4c611942c57%22%7D

        &location=Online meeting&attach= https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_NDgwMGJhZDAtNzZlMy00MDZhLWIzYzAtODcwNjgzNWI3ZTg1@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%227894512c-f554-4de4-bff2-dec418150d4c%22,%22Oid%22:%226cfc80a5-968a-4322-951d-d4c611942c57%22%7D

        dtstart=2024-08-21T15:00:00Z&dtend=2024-08-21T16:00:00Z&duration=1H&reminder=15&recur=daily&recurinterval=14&recuruntil=2024-10-20T14:00:00Z

        Pascale Comaty
          SanfordWhiteman
          SanfordWhiteman
          Level 10
          September 7, 2024

          Responded in the other post (please don’t cross-post the same question as it makes things confusing).

          AkshataPriori
          AkshataPriori
          Level 1
          May 29, 2024

          totally agree with @lizmalinowski , @sanfordwhiteman provided an excellent and free way of creating an iCS file via the CTA. 

          SanfordWhiteman
          SanfordWhiteman
          Level 10
          May 29, 2024

          Glad to hear you like Agical! It does some cool stuff.

          ktronolone
          ktronolone
          Level 2
          May 29, 2024

          The Agical solution provided by @sanfordwhiteman is really, really great. Before we adopted this, for Google calendar links we just used tokens and a standardized link where you can combine program tokens or manually provide details.

           

          Manually supplied times: 

           

           

           

          https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?text={{my.webinar-name}}&details=Your%20unique%20event%20details%20here&dates=20240227T140000/20240227T144500&ctz=America%2FNew_York

           

           

           

           

          Tokenized times: 

           

           

           

          https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?text=Meeting%20with%20Us&details=We%20look%20forward%20to%20seeing%20you%20at%20Booth%20%23719&location=Your%20Desk&dates={{my.gcal-startdatetime}}T{{lead.Scheduled Meeting Time}}/{{my.gcal-startdatetime}}T{{lead.Scheduled Meeting Time}}&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles

           

           

           

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