This guide explains how to receive event reminders from the Infomaniak Calendar web app (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/calendar) on a messaging system like kChat, so you can be notified in the chat thread of your choice when an event is approaching.

⚠ Available with:

* limited to 1 webhook

Prerequisites

• Create an inbound webhook on the kChat app to obtain a URL of the type https://your-server-kchat.xyz/hooks/xxx-key-generated-xxx:
  

Link the kChat webhook to Calendar

To add the webhook from your messaging system to the Calendar app:

1. Click here to access the Infomaniak Calendar web app (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/calendar).
2. Click on the Settings icon ‍ in the top right corner.
3. Click on Integrations in the left-hand menu.
4. Click on the Add a webhook button:
   
5. Define:
   
   1. A name to easily identify the Webhook when adding reminders.
   2. The webhook URL (obtained from your chat system).
   3. The elements (automatically taken from your event and/or added manually here) and their layout in the message that will be sent:
      • Insert %subject%‍ to include the event subject.
      • Insert %date%‍ to include the event date.
      • Insert %description%‍ to include the event description.
      • Insert %location%‍ to include the event location, if applicable.
6. Click on the button to Add the configured element and see it now created:
   

Create an event with chat-based reminder

Now that Calendar is linked to your chat system account, you can choose to be notified in a chat when you add a reminder to an event:

1. Click here to access the Infomaniak Calendar web app (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/calendar).
2. Click the ‍ Create button in the top left corner.
3. Click on Event:
   
   • You can also click on an existing event in the calendar to edit it.
4. Enter the event details.
5. Click on Add a reminder to configure it:
   
6. In the reminder type dropdown menu, choose the webhook you configured (according to the name given in step 5a above).
7. Save the event at the bottom of the page:
   
8. When the reminder time arrives, a message (in the format configured in step 5c above) is sent to the specified channel (configured in the webhook - see prerequisites) regarding the event (here, on kChat):
   

And on other messaging systems?

Slack

1. Click here to access the Slack WebHooks.
2. Choose the channel where your reminders will appear (e.g., @slackbot or #general):
   
3. Save to obtain the webhook URL.

Create other webhooks to set up reminders in other channels.

You can freely use Slack's formatting options in your notifications. Example in French:

N'oubliez pas de %subject% pour le %date%.
À prendre avec le jour J : %description%.
Lieu de l'évènement : %location%