This guide explains how to get event reminders from the Infomaniak Web app Calendar (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/calendar) on a chat system like kChat in order to be notified in your chosen chat thread when an event is approaching.

⚠ Available with:

*limited to 1 webhook

Prerequisites

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

Link the kChat webhook to Calendar

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

1. Click here to access the Infomaniak Web app Calendar (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/calendar).
2. Click on the Settings icon ‍ at the top right.
3. Click on Integrations in the left sidebar menu.
4. Click on the Add a webhook button:
   
5. Define:
   
   1. A name to easily identify the Webhook when you add 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 arrangement in the message to be sent:
      • Insert %subject% to include the subject of the event.
      • Insert %date% to include the date of the event.
      • Insert %description% to include the description of the event.
      • Insert %location% to include the possible location of the event.
6. Click the button to Add the configured element and see it created:
   

Create an event with a chat 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 button Create at the top left.
3. Click on Event:
   
   1. You could also click on an existing event on the calendar to modify it.
4. Enter the event details.
5. Display the additional fields:
   
6. Click on Add a reminder to configure it:
   
7. In the reminder type dropdown menu, choose the webhook configured (according to the name given in 5a above).
8. Save the event at the bottom of the page:
   
9. When the reminder time arrives, a message (in the format configured in 5c above) is sent to kChat about the event, on the channel configured in the kChat webhook (see prerequisites above):
   

And on other chat systems?

Slack

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

Create other webhooks to set reminders in other chat threads.

You can freely use Slack 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%