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Add recurring meetings to your calendar in
Using buttons and tables
Coda, with its table logic, offers a unique way to manage recurring meetings. In a table each row represents a meeting, containing all the essential details: date, start time, end time, subject, meeting content and more.
In this post, we’ll explore how to automate the creation of recurring meetings in your calendar of choice (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.) directly from a Coda table. Using an interactive button, you’ll be able to:
- Define complex recurrence patterns: “Every Monday at 9am”, “Every second Monday of the month”, and so on.
- Automatically capture user information: The button will identify the user who’s active in the Coda doc and use that information to create the meeting in the calendar of choice.
The main advantage of using in this scenario is not that you cannot create recurrent items in your calendar directly (that goes really very well!), but that you can handle your meeting notes at one place, while the time based logic lives in a dedicated application: the calendar. In this scenario ’s main role is to provide you an overview of your linked data and keep it all together.
To guide you through the solution I created a template.
