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.
- 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 Test 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 Action.
- For Event select Create Detailed Event and press Continue.
- Select the Google account you'd like to connect to the Zap and click Continue.
You will need to connect to your Google account if this is the first time you've used it for a Zap.
- The Action 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 course is added successfully. Press Test action.
- 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.
- 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 Test 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 Action.
- For the Event step, select Update Event and press Continue.
- Select the Google account you'd like to connect to the Zap and click Continue.
You will need to connect to your Google account if this is the first time you've used it for a Zap.
- The Action 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 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 add a search step before the update event (select the 'Or add search step' button to do this).
- Populate the required calendar appointment fields with Arlo information. You can enter the same fields you did for the new course Zap.
- 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 the course is updated successfully. Press Test action.
- The Zap is now created and ready to go, all that's left is to give it a name and turn it on.
- 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 Test 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.
- Create a new action and select the Filter built in tool. If you don't see this, search for it in the search bar.
- Set the filter up to run only if the Event Status contains Cancelled.
- Select Continue.
- Search for and select Google Calendar as the new Trigger.
- For the Event step select Delete Event and press Continue.
- Select the Google account you'd like to connect to the Zap and click Continue.
You will need to connect to your Google account if this is the first time you've used it for a 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 update the Google Calendar Event. If you'd like to be able to do update a course with a changed name you'll need add a search step before the update event (select the 'Or add search step' button to do this).
- With the calendar and course selected, press Continue.
- In the final step you can test that the Zap will work and a the course is removed successfully. Press Test action.
- The Zap is now created and ready to go, all that's left is to give it a name and turn it on.