Check your availability before offering client call times
Give Notis the proposed windows and calendars to check, then get a clear free or busy answer before you offer a time.
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
Offering a client a time before checking every relevant calendar creates avoidable back-and-forth.
- Check proposed time windows against selected calendars in one step.
- Make it easier to reply with times that fit your existing commitments.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Bonsai and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis to create one from any channel.
- 3Describe the outcome: query free/busy information for the proposed call windows and report whether each is available.
- 4Pick the notis_cron trigger and choose a recurring schedule and report channel.
- 5Test with one real set of proposed windows and the calendars you use for client calls.
Questions about this workflow
Will it find alternate meeting times?
This action returns free/busy information for the specified calendars and windows. It does not automatically generate alternatives unless you ask Notis to interpret availability data.
What information needs to be supplied?
Specify the calendars and proposed time windows to check. The action cannot determine a Bonsai client's preferred times unless you provide them.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Bonsai to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Bonsai 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.
Bonsai and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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