Button to create Google Calendar event based on the current tiddler

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Figured it out! Here is the code I’m currently using for the button, which is reflective of my workflow involving the streams plugin

\procedure linkTemplate() https://www.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=$(get.encoded.title)$&details=$(get.details)$&dates=$(get.dates)$&allday=true

\function get.encoded.title() [<plainTitle>encodeuricomponent[]]
\function get.dates() [<calendarDate>split[-]join[]addsuffix[/]append<calendarDate>split[-]join[]]
\function get.calendar.link() [<linkTemplate>substitute[]]
\function get.details() [<wikifiedText>encodeuricomponent[]]

\procedure addToCalendarActions()
<$action-listops $tiddler=<<thisTiddler>> $tags="[[In calendar]]"/>

<$vars thisTiddler=<<currentTiddler>>>
<$let 
    streamList={{{ [<thisTiddler>get[stream-list]] }}}
    calendarDate={{{ [<thisTiddler>get[calendar]] :else[<now [UTC]YYYY0MM0DD>] }}}
>
    <$wikify name="plainTitle" text={{{ [<thisTiddler>get[text]] }}} type="text/vnd.tiddlywiki">
        <$wikify name="wikifiedText" text={{{ [enlist<streamList>get[text]join[

]] }}} output="html">
            <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-open-external-window" $param=<<get.calendar.link>> />
        </$wikify>
    </$wikify>
</$let>
</$vars>
\end

It takes the text of the current tiddler as the title (and wikifies it as text/vnd.tiddlywiki" first so that it will remove reference brackets), and uses the text of the stream-list items as the details.

It also will set the date by default to the current date, but if you have a “calendar” value in the tiddler, it will use that date instead (I personally am using this with the datepicker)

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I interact with this through through view conditions I have set up in the streams-row-body for items tagged “TODO” – the calendar button creates and opens the URI and the arrow opens the datepicker

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The last problem I’m having is that, on the mobile app, it’s setting the end day as one day prior to the start day. This is pretty minor and doesn’t happen on the browser for some reason - - but would be very interested to figure out why it’s happening and how to resolve it if anyone has any suggestions.

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