Sending calendar invites .ics

Hmm may I know how you’re sending these out?  

If it helps, I just tried using the ‘Google Calendar: Create Event’ action and added two attendees and received emails in both inboxes fine

And here are the emails where the users can click to accept:

We have it pulling from multiple data columns vs a typed out name do you think that could be why?

Hmm, yeah it could be if the formatting is off.  We just need to make sure we’ve got comma seperated emails in the ‘Attendees’ list, e.g.

It’s pretty forgiving of extra commas and would take something like this fine too, so we wouldn’t need to worry too much about extra commas

jerry@test.com,, george@test.com

Could you provide some screenshots of your data and the automation set up?  Specifically, a row of data where you’re trying to send the invite to multiple people and where it didn’t work?

The commas did it! i had one semi colon hiding. 

Thank you so much for your help! 

Is there a way to send the calendar invites through M365 or do we have to use a Gmail account?

Just use the Outlook integration instead of GCal. I have a setup that autogenerates and invites folks to events using Outlook. Just FYI whatever account you integrate with the automation, the invites will look like it’s coming from them. It threw off a couple of our interpreters for a moment, they were asking why I was inviting them to these events haha. Oh and it’s made a mess of my Sent Items folder in Outlook. 

And while these are not exactly .ics files (since they’re GCal or Outlook events) if you do want to generate and send .ics files, I wrote up a walkthrough a while back here. This is useful if you want to send calendar agnostic invites (sometimes GCal invites don’t play nice with Outlook or whatever) or invites that aren’t shared (so events where people might want to have it on their calendar as a reminder, but don’t need to be subscribed to a single event that tracks changes and everything).