See team availability while planning fundraising work
Ask Notis to query free and busy information for the calendars and planning window relevant to your Blackbaud work.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Query Free/Busy Information
Returns free/busy information for a set of calendars.
Why this helps
Planning around team availability takes repeated calendar checks when fundraising dates and calendars are spread across systems.
- Review availability for a defined set of calendars.
- Reduce repeated calendar switching during planning.
- Get a report based on the supplied planning window.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Blackbaud and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation from Automations, New Automation, or describe it to Notis in plain language.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to query free and busy information for the specified calendars and supplied Blackbaud planning window.
- 4Pick notis_cron and set a recurring schedule that aligns with the planning cadence.
- 5Choose a report channel, then test with one real planning window and confirm the returned availability.
Questions about this workflow
Does the query create a calendar event?
No. Query Free/Busy Information returns availability data for specified calendars.
What data does the workflow need?
Supply the calendars and a defined time range to review. The result only reflects availability in those calendars.
Can it infer a Blackbaud event's dates?
Only if those dates are provided to Notis at run time. Blackbaud has no trigger events listed in this workflow context.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Blackbaud to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Blackbaud triggers
Google Calendar actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Blackbaud and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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