Placing a calendar link for an appointment
With a button and a calendar link in your newsletter, subscribers can add an appointment or event to their own calendar with a single click. You create the calendar item itself outside Laposta.
For a link like this, you use applications that are not managed by Laposta. Laposta cannot guarantee their quality or how they work.
There are two ways to do this, and they differ in how reliably they work:
- Uploading an .ics file to Media and linking to it behind a button: this usually works.
- Creating a link with an external application. This first sends your subscriber to a separate page to add the event to their calendar: this always works.
Placing an .ics file behind a button
First create the .ics file via your own calendar, or use an online tool if you do not want to put the appointment in your own calendar.
Via your own calendar
Via iCal Event Maker
Create an appointment in your calendar (such as Outlook or Google Calendar) and save it to your computer as an .ics file.
Upload the file to your account, as described in Uploading files to Media. Then place a ‘Button’ block in your newsletter, click ‘Or link to file’ on the left, and select your .ics file.
Placing an Add Event link behind a button
With Add Event, you create a separate calendar page and immediately receive the links to use in your newsletter. This is free up to 100 clicks; above that, it is a paid service.
Create the event
Click the blue ‘Create event’ button, fill in all the details, and click ‘Create event’ again.
