Need help writing macro to add alarm when calendar event is added including the word "ALARM"

[dcrgirl]

Hello -- new user here, who needs some help. I am hoping to use this app to solve the following problem; I'm open to suggestions if folks have a better solution.

THE PROBLEM

I routinely miss appointments because my calendar has a lot of events and I have become desensitized to calendar reminder/pop-ups. I really need some way to "flag" the "super-important-cannot-miss-it" events (i.e., dr appt, super-important Skype mtg) and make it impossible for me to miss them. I'd love to have something pop up on all my devices and "yell" at me that it's almost time for the event -- but I don't think they make software for that. :-( What I need is a personal assistant to run my schedule and remind me about meetings -- but unfortunately that's not feasible.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION
For the "super-important-cannot-miss-it" events, I'd like to be able to use a word like "ALARM" in the event title to automatically trigger the creation of an alarm with the same title, to go off 30 minutes before the event.

On other thing that might work: to have a second action to dump the calendar event from my my DejaOffice calendar to a blank Google Calendar -- so I can print a weekly view of the "super important" meetings. My current calendar software does not have layers, unfortunately.

NEED HELP
Can someone help me with creating this macro in the app? I tried to do it, but can't figure out where the "calendar event added" trigger is located. I only see where a calendar event starts/ends as a criteria.

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer!

 

[dhj49er]

Does your calendar support setting a notification alarm x minutes prior to the start of an event?

Like the attached screenshot?

 

[RSF]

My guess is that @dhj49er is thinking about MacroDroid detecting a notification from your DejaOffice app, inspecting it, and having MacroDroid vibrate, play a loud music file, display a pop-up dialog box, etc. That will work and offers great flexibility.

You might not need MacroDroid ... maybe... for this. Have you tried using DejaOffice's Categories scheme?
If you were to:

• set up a custom category named, say, "Urgent", and assign its color as Red, and assigns its custom alarm tone to a ringtone/notification tone that's really noisy (or record yourself saying "Important meeting coming up"), and
• assign that category to your important calendar events...

... you'd get that loud ringtone just for those events, and also be able to filter your calendar view to show just those events in order to print them out, and they'd show up in red.
Might be worth trying -- although MacroDroid will give you lots more options.

Defining the category


Assigning to an event