This topic shows you how to create one or more calendars and set up appointments and reminders, which Orbita integrates with your voice-assisted experience. For example, you can create a calendar for yourself, for each of the residents in a facility, and another for your workgroup.

To create a calendar, (or access existing calendars), in your project select Create > Agents > Calendars. A list of existing calendars appears.

The following image shows a personal calendar and a group calendar.

Add calendar

To create a new calendar, click Add (). The Add a New Calendar dialog box appears.

Enter a Title and Description and click Add.

The following image shows a group calendar with several meetings scheduled in the month of December. When you hover over a day, pop-up help appears to remind you how to create an event.

Each day shows the number of events that are scheduled for that day. For example, Thursday the 6th shows 2 schedule events (as shown below).

You can see the Title of an event by hovering the mouse cursor over the colored dots. For example, there is a Daily synchronization meeting on Thursday the 13th.

Schedule an event

To schedule an event, double click on the day you want in the calendar. An event dialog box appears. The following image shows a reminder to See Dr. Smith at 1 o'clock. Click on the Start and End times to display a time picker (as shown).

Add details to the event for Voice, Text, Screen, and Button

You can add information so that your voice assistant can remind you with more details. For example, the following image shows the address and phone number in the Screen Body text specification.

Set a recurring event and add it to other user calendars

The following image shows how to set up a recurring daily meeting on Monday through Friday. To do this, select Repeats > Weekly, and click the days of the week for the event.

You can add events to the calendars of other users by entering the user's name in the Search and add User search field. The following example adds the Daily synchronization meeting to the calendars of John Smith, Stephen D'Agostino, Anna Gray, and Bill Watson.

Click Custom Properties + to add a note about the meeting that only you will see.

Experience designer Calendar Node

Access to a group calendar

The output of Calendar Node:

msg.data

Access to a users calendar

Note we need to include the user ID, Each user in Orbita has a “My Calendar”

Formating a voice response

var output = "You have no events for that day."
var prevTime;
var eventStartTime, minutes;
var events;
events =  msg.data.calendarData;
if (events && events.length > 0) {
    output = "The Birth center has " + events.length + " scheduled event";
    output += (events.length > 1 ? 's' : '');
    output += "<break time='500ms'/>";
    for(var i = 0; i < events.length; i++) {
        output += " ";
        var event = events[i];
        if (prevTime !== event.localDate) {
            eventStartTime = new Date(event.localDate);
            output += "at " + formatHourMinute(eventStartTime.getHours(), eventStartTime.getMinutes());
        }
        if (event.description) {
            output += " " + event.description;
        }
        prevTime = event.localDate;
       // output += " " + event.title; 
        if(event.participants && event.participants.length > 0) {
           // output += " with "; 
            for (var p = 0; p < event.participants.length; p++)
            {
                node.log(event.participants[p]);
                output += event.participants[p].user.firstName;
            }
        }
        
    }
}
msg.payload.voiceString = output;
return msg;

function formatHourMinute(hours,minutes) {
    var hh = hours;
    var m = minutes;
    var dd = "AM";
    var h = hh;
    if (h >= 12) {
      h = hh-12;
      dd = "PM";
    }
    if (h === 0) {
      h = 12;
    }
    m = m<10?"0"+m:m;
    h = h<10?"0"+h:h;

    var pattern = h + ":" + m + ' ' + dd;
    return pattern;
  }

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How do I create one or more calendars?