Keep grant deadlines visible before they become urgent
Review the grant dates you provide and have Notis add the upcoming deadlines to your calendar with the milestone context attached.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Grant deadlines can be missed when the date is recorded in fundraising work but not visible in the calendar used for daily planning.
- Put supplied grant deadlines on a familiar calendar.
- Keep milestone context beside the due date.
- Use a schedule to review upcoming deadlines without constant checking.
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 create calendar events for eligible upcoming grant deadlines in the Blackbaud details available at run time.
- 4Pick notis_cron and set a recurring schedule with the appropriate look-ahead window.
- 5Choose a report channel, then test with one real grant deadline and verify the event time.
Questions about this workflow
Does Blackbaud send deadline triggers to Notis?
No Blackbaud trigger events are listed. This workflow runs on a Notis schedule and needs grant details available when it runs.
What time should a deadline event use?
The instruction should define a time and duration or an all-day handling rule. Event creation requires valid start and end times.
Will it update existing deadline events?
This workflow describes event creation. To avoid duplicates, instruct Notis to check for a matching event first using available details.
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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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