The following article outlines how to connect Arlo to Google Calendar using Zapier.
To create and use these Zaps you will need to have a Zapier starter plan or above with access multi-step Zaps.
- In your Zapier Dashboard select Create Zap.
- Search for and Select Arlo from the app selector.
- Choose New Event as the Trigger Event and press Continue.
- Choose your account and press Continue.
- On the find data step press Test Trigger.
If Zapier says it cannot find any courses to display try scheduling a new course in your platform, waiting a couple minutes, and clicking test again.
- Press Continue after the test has completed.
- Search for and select Google Calendar as the new Trigger.
- For Choose Action Event select Create Detailed Event and press Continue.
- Select the Google account you'd like to connect to the Zap.
You will need to connect to your Google account if this is the first time you've used it for a Zap.
- The Customise Event section allows you to enter information pulled from Arlo into the courses fields and combine it with Google information and options.
- First select which calendar you want the course to be added to.
You can add custom calendars that are shared with your team to track courses.
- Populate the required calendar appointment fields with Arlo information
- With the required information and any custom information in the description field completed, press Continue.
- In the final step you can test that the Zap will work and a new subscriber will be added successfully. Press Test & Continue.
- The new course will be in your chosen calendar.
- The Zap is now created and ready to go, all that's left is to give it a name and turn it on.
- In your Zapier Dashboard select Create Zap.
- Search for and Select Arlo from the app selector.
- Choose Updated Event as the Trigger Event and press Continue.
- Choose your account and press Continue.
- On the find data step press Test Trigger.
If Zapier says it cannot find any courses to display try updating a course in your platform, waiting a couple minutes, and clicking test again.
- Press Continue after the test has completed.
- Search for and select Google Calendar as the new Trigger.
- For Choose Action Event select Update Event and press Continue.
- Select the Google account you'd like to connect to the Zap.
You will need to connect to your Google account if this is the first time you've used it for a Zap.
- The Customise Event section allows you to enter information pulled from Arlo into the courses fields and combine it with Google information and options.
- First set which calendar you want the course to be added to.
You can add custom made calendars that are shared with your team to track courses.
- Select which course you'd like to update. If you used the Arlo Event Name as the name to create the Google Calendar Event select this.
If you have changed the name of the course in Arlo this will not update the Google Calendar Event. If you'd like to be able to do update a course with a changed name you'll need to use a look up step before the update event.
- Populate the required calendar appointment fields with Arlo information.
- You can enter the same fields you did for the new course Zap.
- In the final step you can test that the Zap will update the course correctly. Press Test & Continue.
If there hasn't been any course added to the calendar yet then this test will fail since it won't be able to find the correct course.
- The Zap is now created and ready to go, all that's left is to give it a name and turn it on.
- In your Zapier Dashboard select Create Zap.
- Search for and Select Arlo from the app selector.
- Choose Updated Event as the Trigger Event and press Continue.
- Choose your account and press Continue.
- On the find data step, press Test Trigger.
If Zapier says it cannot find any courses to display try updating a course in your platform, waiting a couple minutes, and clicking test again.
- Press Continue and search for Filter by Zapier.
- Set the filter up to run only if the Event Status contains Cancelled.
This filter may not trigger with your sample course due to Zapier only pulling active or completed courses in as samples, but it will trigger for any actual course that is cancelled.
- Select Continue.
- Search for and select Google Calendar as the new Trigger.
- For Choose Action Event select Delete Event and press Continue.
- Select the Google account you'd like to connect to the Zap.
- Specify which calendar you'd like to delete the course from.
- Select which course you'd like to delete. If you used the Arlo Event Name as the name to create the Google Calendar Event, select this.
If you have changed the name of the course in Arlo this will not delete the Google Calendar Event
- With the calendar and course selected, press Continue.
- In the final step you can test that the Zap will cancel the course. Press Test & Continue.
If there hasn't been any course added to the calendar yet then this test will fail since it won't be able to find the correct course.
- The Zap is now created and ready to go, all that's left is to give it a name and turn it on.
