How to use IBM App Connect with Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a calendar service for time management and scheduling. You can use Google Calendar to organize your schedule, coordinate events with others, and get reminders about upcoming activities.
Connecting to Google Calendar
Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer page (previously the Catalog page) or flow editor. If necessary, work with your Google Calendar administrator to obtain these values.
| Authorization type | Connection fields | Applicability |
|---|---|---|
| Use the application's website to sign in (OAUTH 2.0 AUTH CODE) | Application client ID | App Connect Enterprise as a Service |
| Application client secret | ||
| The authorized redirect URI for your Google Calendar application (prefilled) | ||
| Provide credentials for App Connect to use (BASIC OAUTH) | Application client ID | App Connect Enterprise as a Service and App Connect in containers |
| Application client secret | ||
| OAuth access token | ||
| OAuth refresh token |
| Connection field | Description |
|---|---|
| Application client ID | The unique identifier generated from the Google API Console that maps to specific project requests. |
| Application client secret | The application client secret for the unique application client ID created for a specific project. |
| OAuth access token | The access token generated from the application client ID and client secret. |
| OAuth refresh token | The refresh token generated from the application client ID and client secret. |
To connect to a Google Calendar endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand Google Calendar, then click Connect. For more information, see Managing accounts.
Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.
General considerations
Before you use App Connect Designer with Google Calendar, take note of the following considerations:
- (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and
actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.
For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.
- (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.
Events and actions
Google Calendar events
These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.
Show more configurable events: Events that are shown by default are pre-configured by using optimized connectivity. More items are available after you configure events that can trigger a flow by polling this application for new or updated objects.
Google Calendar actions
Your flow completes these actions on this application.
| Object | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar lists | Add calendar to calendar list | Adds calendar to calendar list |
| Remove calendar from calendar list | Removes calendar from calendar list | |
| Retrieve calendars from calendar list | Retrieves the calendars from the calendar list | |
| Update calendar properties in calendar list | Updates calendar properties in calendar list | |
| Calendar sharing | Create calendar sharing | Creates calendar sharing |
| Delete calendar sharing | Deletes calendar sharing | |
| Retrieve calendar sharing | Retrieves calendar sharing | |
| Update calendar sharing | Updates calendar sharing | |
| Update or create calendar sharing | Updates an existing calendar sharing or creates a calendar sharing, if it doesn't exist | |
| Calendars | Check availability | Returns the busy slots for a set of calendars. The remaining slots are the available slots on the calendars. |
| Clear calendar | Clears a primary calendar, which deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account | |
| Create calendar | Creates a new calendar | |
| Delete calendar | Deletes a calendar | |
| Retrieve calendar | Retrieves a calendar | |
| Update calendar | Updates an existing calendar | |
| Update or create calendar | Updates an existing calendar or creates a new calendar if it doesn't exist | |
| Events | Create event | Creates an event |
| Create quick event | Creates an event based on a simple text string | |
| Copy event | Copies an event, which adds a private copy of an existing event to a calendar | |
| Delete event | Deletes an event | |
| Delete recurring event | Deletes a recurring event | |
| Move event | Moves an event to another calendar, for example, changes an event's organizer | |
| Retrieve events | Retrieves the events | |
| Retrieve recurring events | Retrieves the recurring events | |
| Update event | Updates the event | |
| Update or create event | Updates an existing event or creates a new event, if it doesn't exist | |
| Update recurring event | Updates the recurring event |
Examples
Use templates to quickly create flows for Google Calendar
Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that perform actions on Google Calendar. For example, open Discover, and then search for Google Calendar.
Use IBM® App Connect to build flows that integrate with Google Calendar.
Read the blog in the IBM Community to learn how to create a Google Calendar event whenever an epic is created in GitLab. Click Read the blog to go to the blog.