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Remote work comes with a unique set of challenges—the least of which involves remembering to put pants on. As a fully distributed team at Zapier, we've perfected the art of communicating, collaborating, and even getting to know each other remotely.

New to remote work? Try these automated workflows.

Use this integration to communicate your status with your Slack team. After you set it up, whenever an event starts in Google Calendar, Zapier will automatically update your status in Slack. That way, your team will know you're AFK with no extra effort on your part.

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Calendar

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Delete Event

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Offering instant messaging, document sharing and knowledge search for modern teams.

Triggers when a new message is posted to any public channel.

New Public Message Posted Anywhere

New Channel

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #channel you choose.

New Message Posted to Channel

Triggers when a custom emoji has been added to a team.

New Team Custom Emoji

Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your workspace.

New File

Triggers when a username or highlight word is mentioned in a public #channel.

New Mention

Triggers when a new message is found that matches the query.

New Message From Query

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #private-channel or multi-dm.

New Message Posted to Private Channel

Triggers when a Message is pushed from Slack.

New Pushed Message

Triggers when a reaction (aka reactji) is added to a message in a public #channel.

New Reaction Added

New Saved Message

Triggers when a new Slack user is created / first joins your org.

New User

Finds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature.

Find Message

Finds a user by matching against their email instead of their username.

Find User by Email

Find User by ID

Finds a user by matching against their real name instead of their username.

Find User by Name

Find User by Username

Adds a reminder for yourself or a teammate, just like the `/remind` slash command.

Add Reminder

Invite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it.

Invite User to Channel

Posts a message to the specific #channel you choose. Message delivery can be scheduled for later.

Send Channel Message

Sends a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Direct Message

Create Channel

Post a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Private Channel Message

Set Channel Topic

Update basic profile fields such as name or title

Update Profile

Sets your Slack status to the given text and emoji.

Set Status

Invite a new User to your Slack workspace. Uses legacy tokens.

Invite New User

Update your Slack status when new Google Calendar events begin

Want to set your Slack status every morning when you start work, or every evening when you're out for the day? Zapier can do that for you. Just add the time you want this Zap to run—and choose whether it should run on weekends, too—then put your standard Slack status. Zapier will set it for you every day! Learn more in our 

Schedule is a native Zapier app you can use for recurring tasks. Trigger an action every day of the month, every day of the week or every single day. You can also select the hour of the day. If you're a developer, this is similar to a crontab, cronjob or cron.

Triggers at user-defined intervals (days, weeks, months)

Custom Frequency

Every Day

Every Hour

Triggers every month, on the day(s) selected.

Every Month

Triggers every week, on the day(s) selected.

Every Week

Set Slack status on an automatic daily schedule

"Heads up! Team meeting starts in 10 minutes." This Zap will be sure you and your team are ready for the next event with a Slack notification, automatically sent ten minutes before any new scheduled event starts on your Google Calendar. 

Send Slack channel messages for new Google Calendar events

Starting the day with a little fun can help set the tone for your work. Automatically greet your team as work begins by setting up this integration. It will trigger every day at the predefined time, searching for a random "Good Morning" GIF on GIPHY and posting it to your #general channel on Slack so the team can start their day with a smile.

Giphy is the best way to search, share, and discover GIFs on the Internet.

Giphy

Finds a random GIF that matches your specified keyword(s).

Find GIF

Post random Good Morning GIFs from GIPHY every day on Slack

Some tasks need to be completed weekly, but we might just need a gentle reminder. Spending most of our days in Slack communicating with our team makes it a great place to get those task reminders. Set up this integration and, with a little help from Zapier, you can automatically get that scheduled task in the Slack channel of your choice at the same time weekly. 

Get weekly reminders in Slack

Each morning, Zapier checks your local forecast—it respects your Zapier account timezone settings—and posts the details you'd like to share in Slack. You can include the temperature, chance of rain, summary and more in the message. And you can post the message to any channel or send it to yourself via Slackbot.

Trigger off weather conditions in your local area. (Powered by Dark Sky)

Weather by Zapier

Only triggers if it will rain today. Checks once a day around 7AM, your local time. Respects your Zapier time zone settings.

Will It Rain Today?

Receive a daily weather forecast. Always triggers once a day around 7AM, your local time. Respects your Zapier time zone settings.

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