Would it be possible to make the following changes for the Outlook integration and the .ics file:
1) in both the Outlook integration and .ics file, would it be possible to add the zoom link of an appointment as the "location" field (like it is usually happening when you plan a Zoom meeting via Outlook)?
2) for the .ics file, at the moment if I open the file and add the appointment to a calendar, the calendar entry is named after the booked service. Is it possible to change that naming - with the variables we can use in the email layouts?
1. In regards to the Outlook event with the zoom link, you can include the zoom link in the "Event Title and Description" field on the Amelia/Settings/Integrations/Outlook calendar page.
At the moment, you can add the URL through the database, but please note that it will come up as HTML:
So, it's a bit ugly, but at least it works.
To do that, you need to access the wp_options table in your database, and there search for "amelia_settings" in the "option_name" column. It will return one row, so you need to edit it. Look for “ics” and you'll see this:
regarding 1) I have already found the suggested solution in another public ticket - but that is not exactly what I meant. As an attachment I send you two screenshots (both filenames starting with 1-xxxx) where you can see the place where my client would like to have put the join url for zoom meetings. Most calendar clients support these location field and it is a common practice from videconference services like Zoom or MS Teams to put the join url in this "field".
regarding 2) I have attached a screenshot here too (starting with 2-xxxx). The red marked words is what calendars take from the .ics file for the calendar entry name/title/subject (or whatever you call it). This name/title is taken from the appointments booked service and there seems to be no way to change it to anything else for the ics file. (As an example from the screenshot, the wording "Buchhaltung (1 Std.)" you can see is exactly the name of the booked service for this appointment.
I am looking forward to your answer and hope you can help me out.
Thank you for clearing that up and for your patience.
Unfortunately, there are currently no such options with Amelia's built-in features. You can suggest that feature on the following link: https://features.wpamelia.com/
We carefully follow suggestions from our customers and the more vote the feature gets, the more priority we put on implementing that feature in one of the future updates.
What I can see here is that SUMMARY is the thing that would need to be changed to fit my need from request nr. 2)
Wouldn't it be possible to add that manually in the wp_options table in my database like you told me to change the "appointment" inside the ics field "description" ?
Would it be possible to make the following changes for the Outlook integration and the .ics file:
1) in both the Outlook integration and .ics file, would it be possible to add the zoom link of an appointment as the "location" field (like it is usually happening when you plan a Zoom meeting via Outlook)?
2) for the .ics file, at the moment if I open the file and add the appointment to a calendar, the calendar entry is named after the booked service.
Is it possible to change that naming - with the variables we can use in the email layouts?
Thank you :)
Hello Jürgen,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
1. In regards to the Outlook event with the zoom link, you can include the zoom link in the "Event Title and Description" field on the Amelia/Settings/Integrations/Outlook calendar page.
At the moment, you can add the URL through the database, but please note that it will come up as HTML:
So, it's a bit ugly, but at least it works.
To do that, you need to access the wp_options table in your database, and there search for "amelia_settings" in the "option_name" column. It will return one row, so you need to edit it. Look for “ics” and you'll see this:
"ics":{"description":{"appointment":"","event":"","translations":{"appointment":null,"event":null}}}Modify the appointment, so it looks like this:
And that's it.
We'll work on a better solution in the future.
2. Can you please elaborate on what you are referring to here?
Looking forward to your reply.
Kind Regards,
Uros Jovanovic
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Hello Uroš,
thanks for your reply.
regarding 1) I have already found the suggested solution in another public ticket - but that is not exactly what I meant.
As an attachment I send you two screenshots (both filenames starting with 1-xxxx) where you can see the place where my client would like to have put the join url for zoom meetings. Most calendar clients support these location field and it is a common practice from videconference services like Zoom or MS Teams to put the join url in this "field".
regarding 2) I have attached a screenshot here too (starting with 2-xxxx). The red marked words is what calendars take from the .ics file for the calendar entry name/title/subject (or whatever you call it).
This name/title is taken from the appointments booked service and there seems to be no way to change it to anything else for the ics file.
(As an example from the screenshot, the wording "Buchhaltung (1 Std.)" you can see is exactly the name of the booked service for this appointment.
I am looking forward to your answer and hope you can help me out.
Attached files: 1-calendar-location-with-zoom-url-in-overview.png
1-calendar-location-with-zoom-url-in-details.png
2-calendar-entry-name-from-ics-file.png
Hello Jürgen,
Thank you for clearing that up and for your patience.
Unfortunately, there are currently no such options with Amelia's built-in features. You can suggest that feature on the following link: https://features.wpamelia.com/
We carefully follow suggestions from our customers and the more vote the feature gets, the more priority we put on implementing that feature in one of the future updates.
Kind Regards,
Uros Jovanovic
[email protected]
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Hi Uroš,
thank you for the response. I will suggest the feature(s) via the website you told me.
Just one more question: When I open the an .ics file which was created out of Amelia in a text editor, I can see the following:
......
SUMMARY:Buchhaltung (1 Std.)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Jürgen Link: Besprechung Buchhaltung (1 Std.) / Online Term
in\nE-Mail: [email protected]\nTelefonnummer: +43565656\n\nOrt:
.......
What I can see here is that SUMMARY is the thing that would need to be changed to fit my need from request nr. 2)
Wouldn't it be possible to add that manually in the wp_options table in my database like you told me to change the "appointment" inside the ics field "description" ?
Hello Jürgen,
For that purpose, you can change the configuration of the "Set Ics File Description" option on the Amelia/Settings/Notifications page.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Kind Regards,
Uros Jovanovic
[email protected]
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