Service google.create_event

[jane-t]

Feedback

The fact it needs an entity_id in the data section is not mentioned. As the older service called needed a calendar_id it is not immediately obvious what line is needed.

URL

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google/

Version

2022.7.7

Additional information

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[frenck]

It doesn't require an entity ID?

[jane-t]

This works

service: google.create_event
data:
  entity_id: calendar.work_days
  summary: Working
  start_date_time: >-
    {{state_attr('input_datetime.set_working_day','timestamp')|
    timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d 09:00:00')}}
  end_date_time: >-
    {{state_attr('input_datetime.set_working_day','timestamp')|
    timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d 09:01:00')}}

The following errors stating a Device, Entity ID is required, which makes sense, but is not mentioned on the documentation,

service: google.create_event
data:
  summary: Working
  start_date_time: >-
    {{state_attr('input_datetime.set_working_day','timestamp')|
    timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d 09:00:00')}}
  end_date_time: >-
    {{state_attr('input_datetime.set_working_day','timestamp')|
    timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d 09:01:00')}}

[frenck]

It needs a target, you can also target an area or device directly, no need for entities IDs for that.

Please note, that putting entity_ids in the data section is considered "old-school" it still works, but we don't use such syntax anymore.

[jane-t]

Sorry, I am not making myself clear, the function is fine. It was just I found the documentation unclear, as there was no mention in the documentation of needing to set a target and as I was working in YAML as the script used templates the visual editor was switched off.

I have adjusted my script to

service: google.create_event
target:
  entity_id: calendar.work_days
data:
  summary: Working
  start_date_time: >-
    {{state_attr('input_datetime.set_working_day','timestamp')|
    timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d 09:00:00')}}
  end_date_time: >-
    {{state_attr('input_datetime.set_working_day','timestamp')|
    timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d 09:01:00')}}

[allenporter]

So maybe we want to include a link to https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/blueprint/selectors/#target-selector plus a full example to copy/paste?

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