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Review busy time for community planning

See when calendars are busy before you plan a community activity or member outreach window.

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

Choosing a time without a clear view of busy periods creates extra back-and-forth.

  • Check free and busy periods across specified calendars.
  • Support planning without manually opening each calendar.
  • Receive a scheduled availability summary.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Brilliant Directories and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for community planning availability.
  • 3Tell Notis to check free and busy periods for the calendars and date range you provide.
  • 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real planning window and confirm the calendars and range.

Questions about this workflow

Does this action return event details?

It returns free and busy information for specified calendars. Use Find free slots if you want time slots enhanced with event details.

What must the date range satisfy?

The start of the range must come before its end.

When this happens · Trigger

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Brilliant directories to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Brilliant directories triggers

Google Calendar actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Insert Calendar into List

Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Update Calendar List Entry

Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.

ActionInstant

Delete Calendar

Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.

ActionInstant

Update Calendar

Updates metadata for a calendar.

ActionInstant

Clear Calendar

Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Create a calendar

Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Brilliant directories and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

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