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ljurado37Asked on March 20, 2015 at 5:32 PM
I have a form I created to be filled out by a user in textbox (name, phone, email, date of event, time of event, event name)
I want to have form results emailed, which Im using your email notifier. ( I know how to do that)
Then have the results displayed in a thank you page, which im using your thank you page wizard, thank you message with the form fields {example} .
What I want to do is have the results of the form create an ics file to be attached to the email. So i can quickly click on it in the email and it adds to my calendar.
or have the form generate a link in the email body that i can click to add to my calendar.
How can i do this?
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MikeReplied on March 20, 2015 at 8:33 PM
Thank you for contacting us.
Unfortunately, we do not have an option to create .ics files and we do not support email attachments.
You can add a custom link to the email, so in theory it is possible to generate the .ics file on the fly by accessing the link. Note, you will need a custom script and hosting for that script somewhere. A script example can be found on the next page.
https://gist.github.com/jakebellacera/635416
If you need any further assistance, please let us know.
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ljurado37Replied on March 20, 2015 at 9:20 PM
ok.
let me know if i get this right or if you can explain how this would function.
my form will create the email with all the event details, then i receive that email and inside it will have a link to create an ics file?
what happens when i click the link in the email? Does the script take the information from my email and convert it to an ics file automatically or is this a link that will bring me to another page that i have to fill out all the event details again?
also this script, where do i insert the code in the email template? or in the body of the form?
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ljurado37Replied on March 20, 2015 at 9:26 PM
What im trying to do is create a proposal for my services with a date and time have that proposal emailed to my client and my self then if the client agrees to my service i can go back to the email in my phone click a button in the email that adds the event to my google calender. Or both me and the client can add the event to our calendar.
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ljurado37Replied on March 21, 2015 at 10:50 AM
ok i got it thank you.
only problem i think the date and time variable is in unix epoch
$datestart - the starting date (in seconds since unix epoch)$dateend - the ending date (in seconds since unix epoch)on my form i have your calendar date and time selector so it shows as mm-dd-yy hh:mmbut unix epoch is 1426948938do you have a calendar that produces this date?am i missing something? -
ljurado37Replied on March 21, 2015 at 8:05 PM
ok thank you, I'll give it a try.
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KadeJMReplied on June 29, 2016 at 10:15 AM
We have some good news about this and we wanted to inform you that it is now possible to attach uploaded files to your emails.
Please see https://www.jotform.com/blog/uploaded-files-as-email-attachments/ for more information.
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eriedioceseReplied on February 28, 2017 at 3:19 PM
But that still won't generate the ICS file from the submission using the unique answers to date/time/location submitted on the form correct?
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David JotForm SupportReplied on February 28, 2017 at 5:37 PM
That is correct. You can attach a predefined .ics file to your emails but it is not possible to generate one based on the form submission data.