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Reminder

You can enable Orbita to set a reminder for a predetermined time. Your voice assistant will wake up and read it out.

Enable the Reminder permission

1. Go to https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask.

2. Select your skill.

3. Scroll down and select Permissions from the side menu bar.

   

4. Enable Reminders using the toggle button.

   

Reminder Node in Experience Designer

You have to use the Reminder node to create reminders from your flow. The node can be used to set the reminder based on the events in the calendar.

Input

Reminder node uses a predefined input to set reminders to the users. There are 2 types of inputs to the Reminder node:

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trigger Type = 'SCHEDULED_RELATIVE'
offsetInSeconds = null,
timeZoneId = 'America/Los_Angeles',
recurrenceType = 'DAILY',
freqByDay = null,
scheduledTime = null,
text= null,
locale= 'en-US',
pushNotification Status = 'ENABLED'

Using Calendar events to set reminders

You can create reminders for the events in the calendars.

Sample flow

You can query from the Calendar Manager node to get the required event and process the payload using the function node to set a reminder.

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Sample code in the function node

The following sample code creates reminders for the events in your calendar. Place this code in the Function node before the Reminder node, after the Calendar Manager node.

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