How to leverage Integromat to expand the capabilities of your app(s): Episode 1

Updated: Oct 7, 2021

Very often Saas users find that their beloved app is missing a feature that would make their life so much better. Most of the time this missing part it is very specific to a customer or a business, so chances are that the feature will never be implemented. Luckily we have tools like Zapier and Integromat that allows us to bridge those feature gaps and expand the capabilities of an existing app stack. This is the first episode of the new series that will give real life examples of such integrations.

Custom Time Off approval automation using Jotform ,Google calendar and Integromat

I was looking into the newish Jotform Approvals tool today and I was surprised that it was not possible to send a notification via webhook. So I was searching their forum and found a user that had the following issue:

They were trying to use Jotform Approvals to approve or deny Time Off request, but they also wanted to create an event in Google Calendar once the Time Off request was approved. The native Jotform Google Calendar integration allows to create an event in the calendar but only at the form submission, and not after the approval. This is clearly a problem in this case, Jotform is almost capable of creating this great little automation by itself, almost ....

So what to do? One option is to wait for Jotform engineers to build a feature that would allow this, but it may never come. The other option is to use another No-code tool to expand the capabilities of your existing app stack without getting a developer: Integromat.

Ok so what do we need to achieve this?

In Jotform Approval it is possible to add an email action in the workflow. So here the idea is to email a mailhook in Integromat to trigger an automation there and create the Google Calendar event.