Use the right local time for community planning
Anchor a scheduled planning run to the current time in the timezone you specify.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get current date and time
Gets the current date and time, allowing for a specific timezone offset.
Why this helps
Time sensitive planning can go off track when a workflow assumes the wrong timezone.
- Retrieve current date and time with a timezone offset.
- Help ground time-sensitive planning instructions.
- Avoid relying on an unstated timezone assumption.
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 local time planning.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the current date and time using the timezone offset you specify.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real run and check the returned local date and time.
Questions about this workflow
Does this action check whether a time is available?
No. It returns the current date and time for a specified timezone offset. Use an availability action to check calendar openings.
Do I need to specify a timezone?
Specify the timezone offset that should anchor your planning run so the result is interpreted as intended.
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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.
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.
Brilliant directories and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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