More Stuff from the Basement: September 2015

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Why cant you get calendar alerts from google Tasks? Now you can!

How to get calendar alerts from google tasks.

Here is a short scrip that will transfer all tasks with due dates onto an alerts calendar.

To set up

Go to your calendar

Create a new calendar called "Reminders"
Edit Notifications for that calendar to get emails sms or popups.

Go to "script.google.com"

Create a new blank project
Paste this code in there (overwrite anything that was in there).

function copyTasksToCal() {
  var taskLists = Tasks.Tasklists.list();
  if (taskLists.items) {
    for (var i = 0; i < taskLists.items.length; i++) { 
      var taskList = taskLists.items[i];
      var tasks = Tasks.Tasks.list(taskList.id);
      if (tasks.items) {
         for (var j = 0; j < tasks.items.length; j++) {
           var task = tasks.items[j];
           if(task.status!="completed" && task.due){
               cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarsByName("Reminders")                              
               // This requires you to have created a calendar called "Reminders."
               a = cal[0].createEventFromDescription(task.title + ",7:00 AM  " + task.due);
               var desc = task.links?task.links[0].link:""+ "\n" + task.notes;
               a.setDescription(desc);
               task.status="completed"
               Tasks.Tasks.update(task, taskList.id,"[]");
               Logger.log("\n=\ntask %s created in calendar -\n=\n",task.title);             
           }
         }
      } 
    }
  }
}

Save the code
"Resources"-> "Current Project's Triggers" -> "click to add new trigger"
OR
click the trigger icon (clock inside a speech bubble next to the save and play icons )
NOTE: If this is the first time you are doing this you need to enable 2 things before step 4

Resources -> "Advanced Google Services" - Enable the TASKS api
console.developers.google.com/apis - search for "tasks" and enable it.

Select "Time Driven" and as frequent as you want it to run (5 minutes is good)
Save

To Use

Go to Gmail, and select "Tasks" from the drop down (other options are mail and contacts)
Any task that is not completed which has a due date will be transferred to the "Reminders" calendar and marked completed.
A task can be created from an email (shift-T)
Tasks that do not have a due date will not receive this treatment.

N.B

you need to enable advanced services

(this has been asked for a lot - e.g. )

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