Add to Calendar widget

Searching your forum, I don't think you have an Add to Calendar widget, but this would be a very handy add-on.

In the meantime, can you suggest a way to manually integrate the following one, or alternatively, any other suggestions?

https://addthisevent.com

This appears to have very good support for adding an entry to a user's Outlook, Google, Apple, Facebook etc Calendars.

According to their notes, the following components are required:

They also have Advanced Settings and Themes (for button choice)

Hi,

Thank you for sharing your inputs on this.

To confirm you wish to add an event to different calendar platforms like Google Calendar, Outlook, etc... Is that right? If you wish to use the widget "AddThisEvent" to your form, that is possible by injecting it directly to your Form's full source code. But you'll need to have your own landing web page for this because you'll embed these codes on it.

If you are looking to add an event to your Google Calendar when a submission has been done, you can try integrating JotForm to Google Calendar via Zapier. Here' the page to it, you'll see different trigger events and actions that you can do between JotForm and Google Calendar: https://zapier.com/zapbook/google-calendar/jotform/.

I hope this helps. Please do let us know if you need more information on this.

Thank you.

Thanks for your reply.

We typically use Jotform to create event registration forms and therefore would like to provide those registrants who complete the form a button (on the form) to be able to add an appt (i.e. the event date and details) into their Calendar of choice.

So your first idea is correct - a widget like "AddThisEvent" would allow this.  However, we do not typically use external landing pages, so we would need to embed all code via Jotform.  But it sounds like this won't work from your comment:

"If you wish to use the widget "AddThisEvent" to your form, that is possible by injecting it directly to your Form's full source code. But you'll need to have your own landing web page for this because you'll embed these codes on it."

I'm assuming you mean that the <!-- AddThisEvent --> script is placed in the Jotform full source code, but you are also saying that all the other code <span class> cannot go into Jotform and would be required to be embeded from an external calling page.

Can you please clarify?

Also, if the above is the case and cannot be achieved based on how we operate our forms (no external landing page), do you believe an Add to Calendar widget such as AddThisEvent could be added to the Jotform wishlist?

From the above you will have to download the full source code of your form and incorporate the add event widget into the HTML.

The code in the span can be added but if the widget depends on external JavaScript it wont work correctly since one cant embed JavaScript in the online version of the form.

We can submit a feature request for the suggested widget, the availability timeline will be dependent on the developers milestones delivery.

"From the above you will have to download the full source code of your form and incorporate the add event widget into the HTML."

What do you mean by "download"?  Are you saying that I copy the full source of the form, insert the additional code and then paste the all source back in?  And obviously this is subject to whether the widget depends on external Javascript.  I will also look for other complete solutions that include all source, but just checking that you are saying I can download and update the full Jotform form source and then paste it back in somewhere in Jotform?

I am sorry, but you can not upload custom form source code to JotForm, especially one that contains scripts.

What my colleagues are saying is that you can implement this widget feature for yourself, for example by hiring a third-party developer to do it for you. You can achieve this by downloading the Source Code of your JotForm form. Then, you or your developer would need to add the functionality to the downloaded source, and copy/paste that form code to your own website - not on JotForm.

I would advise you to please consider the workaround that our colleague Charlie had suggested as an easier alternative, to try using Zapier to integrate your JotForm to your Google Calendar, if that is what you are ultimately trying to achieve.

I hope this clarified any confusion. Thank you.

" would advise you to please consider the workaround that our colleague Charlie had suggested as an easier alternative, to try using Zapier to integrate your JotForm to your Google Calendar"

Thank you but as I explained, that is not what I want to achieve.  The forms are for Event Registration purposes, so the date/time and event details are quite meaningful.

We therefore want people to click on a button on the form and have the widget's date/time/details go into their calendar, be it Outlook, Google, Apple or other popular Calendars.

Anyway, from what you explained, what I am after is not able to be done natively unless I embed the form separately from an external page which I am not doing, so I'll leave it at that.

Yes, that is correct, we do not have such a feature available at this time.

Thank you for your understanding. We strive to add many useful features to our JotForm forms, and I hope to see this feature one day in our collection, for everyone to use.

Thank you. Please contact us again if you have any other questions or if you need help with your forms, we are here to help.

Kind regards,
Boris

@grade4pagasa, Thanks for sharing those details. 

If you face any issue or need assistance, feel free to revert back.