How to Create Google Calendar Events from New Trello Cards

Step 1: Sign up to Pabbly Connect

First, visit the Pabbly Connect website & hit the ‘Sign-Up Free‘ button. Next on the registration page that opens subsequently either use your existing Gmail account or manually fill the registration form to signup.

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Step 2: Access Pabbly Connect

After successfully logging in, hit the ‘Access Now’ button of the software ‘Connect’ in the Pabbly application.

Step 3: Workflow for Trello with Google Calendar Integration

(a) Start with a New Workflow

Start with creating a workflow to add an event on Google Calendar for every new Trello card & to do this push the ‘Create Workflow’ button first.

(b) Name the Workflow

Now, name the workflow as per your need (for instance: Trello to Google Calendar etc) and push the ‘Create’ button available here.

Step 4: Setting Trigger for Trello to Google Calendar Integration

To automatically add Google Calendar event for the newly added Trello cards, you’ll need to set-up a trigger on the new Trello cards and its respective action to add an event on Trello using Pabbly Connect.

(a) Select Application you want to integrate

When you click on the create button to generate the workflow, a page containing the trigger window will open next.

Select the ‘Trello’ app from the ‘Choose App’ field drop-down options.

(b) Select Method & Copy Webhook URL

Select the method in here to be ‘New Customer Created’ & then copy the given webhook URL.

Step 5: Connecting Trello to Pabbly Connect

As the system is asking for a Trello account username, API key and token, log in to your Trello account and feed the necessary field details.

(a) Login to Your Trello Account

First, log in to your Trello account and then press the profile icon. Then, click on the ‘Profile and Visibility’ option.

A page will open up containing the Username. Copy your username from here.

(b) Paste the Username

Paste the copied username in the Pabbly Connect trigger connection window.

(c) For API Key & Token Click the ‘here’ Text Anchor

Now, for the API Key, click the ‘here’ text anchor or go to ‘https://trello.com/app-key/’.

(d) Copy API Token

Copy the API key from here.

(e) Paste the Copied API Key

Paste the API key in the Pabbly Connect trigger’s ‘API Key’ field.

(f) Generate Token

On the Trello API Key window, you will find a link to generate the token. Click on the Token anchor to generate a token.

You’ll be direct to authorize your Trello account next. Complete the token generation process.

(g) Copy the Token

Copy the generated token.

(h) Paste the Token

Paste the copied token and then click ‘Save’.

(i) Select the Board & List

Once you successfully authorize and connect your Trello account, the system will auto-populate all the boards and lists in it.

Select the board and list that you want to use in this workflow.

Lastly, hit the ‘Save & Send Test Request’ button.

Step 6: Test the Response in Pabbly Connect Dashboard

As we can see, we are done setting up the trigger to auto-create tasks in ClickUp for new Trello cards. So now, let’s just test the trigger by making a test request on the trigger set-up.

(a) Capture Webhook Response

Click the ‘Capture Webhook Response’ button first.

(b) Click on ‘Add a card’

Now, go back to your Trello account and click on ‘Add a card’.

(c) Name & Add a Card

Name the card and click on the ‘Add Card’ button.

(d) Check & Save the Trigger Response

You can check the captured trigger response in the Pabbly Connect trigger window. You can see all the data from Trello ‘New Card’ trigger response.

(e) Click on Trello Card ‘Edit Icon’

Click the pencil icon, next to your recently created Trello card.

(f) Add Description

Add the description and click ‘Save’. Then click on ‘Due Date’.

(g) Set Due Date

Now, select a date from the calendar available and click on ‘Save’.

(h) Integrate Trello Action

Now, once again integrate Trello.

(i) Select Method & Connect

This time select the method in here as ‘Get Card Details’ & hit the ‘Connect with Trello’ button.

(j) Select Credentials

Select the already fed credentials to connect with Trello this time.

Click the drop-down menu of the ‘Select Your Credentials’ field and select the saved credentials.

Lastly, hit ‘Save’.

(k) Map the Card Id

Map the Card Id from the trigger response and then hit ‘Save & Send Test Request’ button.

To map a value, place your cursor in the field.

Then, click the menu button (three horizontal lines) next to that particular field.

Click-select the value that you want to map with the respective field.

(l) Check & Save Card Details

Check the API Response for this action and you will see the updated information about the created card.

Step 7: Setting Action for Trello to Google Calendar Integration

Now, as we have gathered all the necessary information to create a Google Calendar event from Trello response. We can proceed to feed this data as an action so that a new customer gets created automatically.

(a) Select Application you want to Integrate

Next, push the plus button next to the Google Calendar action.

Select the app to integrate as ‘Google Calendar’ and method as ‘Create Customer’.

Lastly, click on the ‘Connect with Google Calendar’ button.

(b) Authorize Google Account

Click on ‘Connect with Google Calendar’ button in the window that slides in from the right.

(e) Map Fields

Map all the required fields from the gathered response.

(f) Mention Guest, Recurrence Rule & Send Test Request

Mention the guests and recurrence rule as per the help text given below it. And send a test request.

(g) Check & Save Response

You can check the response of your API in the action window. If everything is good, the response will start showing the details. Save the action API’s response by hitting the ‘Save’ button at the bottom of the action API’s response.

Step 8: Check Response in Google Calendar

Also, you can check the customer’s entry on your connected Google Calendar account.