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trigger a flow 60 minutes before event starts

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I want to create a flow that triggers 1 hour before a google calendar event starts. I don't see an option how to do that though.

 

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On other integration platforms there are options like this one

 

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Is there a workaround for power automate to achieve what I'm trying to do?

 

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  • OliverR-82 Profile Picture
    621 on at

    It doesn't look like there's a trigger for Google Calendar to accomplish what you're trying to do. For events in an Outlook calender, there is a separate trigger:

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    But that doesn't seem to exist for Google Calendar, so I'm afraid there's no straightforward workaround to get to your desired end result.

     

    I suppose you could try building a scheduled flow (ie. recurring) that gets all the events from your calendar and then have a condition to check if the start time is in 60 minutes. I don't know which filtering options the 'Get events from google calendar' action supports. Maybe you could specify a filter to only get the events that start within the next hour, and then set the frequency of the flow as desired to get the result the closest to what you want. 

     

    I have no experience with the connectors for Google, so I've no idea how feasible this idea is.

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    v-bofeng-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @aristosv ,

     

    You could try:

    • Create a flow that runs at 0:00 every day
    • List all of today's events
    • Create an 'apply to each' action that traverses all of today's events
    • Turn on the concurrency feature of the 'apply to each' action and set the upper limit to 25
    • Calculate the time 60 minutes before each event starts while traversing envents, and use delay until to postpone the next action.

     

    Best Regards,

    Bof

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