A common feature of event pages is to have a link in which an end user can quickly add said event to their Google Calendar. Below is a snippet of HTML/Liquid code that does that in an updated way, taking full advantage of new and improved Nationbuilder page and event variables. The snippet also uses a full ranges of prepopulated fields that Google Calendar supports. I hope you enjoy this quick fix, and if this helped you out -- please consider sharing this article on social media.
An explanation of some of the parameters...
| text |
This pulls in the headline of your event |
| ctz | This one is tricky. Google only accepts very specific formatted time zone codes, which Nationbuilder doesn't generate automatically. Here's a list of what's accepted. This code uses ET because that's my default - but to swap it you'd insert in the code that your event time zone is. Here's a compatible list of zones for the US. |
| dates | Google has to have a start date and end date to auto-populate, and it needs to be in UTC format. This is all done for you for your event through Liquid. |
| location | Pulls the Address you put in your Event Venue/Location settings |
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sprop=name |
Just a attribute for the Website Name |
| sprop=website | Just a attribute for the Website Address |
| details | This is where your Event content gets pulled in. All HTML tags are stripped in order to pass through the URL better. |
| target="_blank" | One last added attribute to the <a> element to force the link to open in a new tab, just so you don't loose visitors on your website completely. |
If you have any questions, or want to do something like this but a little more complex on your site -- please contact me at [email protected].
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