From Google Forms to Google Calendar - Date and TIme issues - forms

Question

I am trying to modify a script I found online that seems to make the event an all day event, which I don't want, I want it to be just the time specified in the form/spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet is located here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApxazoOhNSK-dGFvZVhVOTQ1X3F3aWh4QTh3Wm9sbFE#gid=0
Here is the script I am using, but its not adding...
//this is the ID of the calendar to add the event to, this is found on the calendar settings page of the calendar in question
var calendarId = "<removed for privacy>";
//below are the column ids of that represents the values used in the spreadsheet (these are non zero indexed)
var startDtId = 4;
var endDtId = 4;
var titleId = 2;
var titleId2 = 3;
var descId = 7;
var tstart = 4;
var tstop = 5;
var formTimeStampId = 1;
function getLatestAndSubmitToCalendar() {
var start = new Date(sheet.getRange(lr,tstart,1,1).getValue());
var end = new Date(sheet.getRange(lr,tstop,1,1).getValue());
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
var values = rows.getValues();
var lr = rows.getLastRow();
var subOn = "Submitted on :"+sheet.getRange(lr,formTimeStampId,1,1).getValue()+" by "+sheet.getRange(lr,titleId,1,1).getValue();
var desc = "Comments: "+sheet.getRange(lr,descId,1,1).getValue()+"\n"+subOn;
var title = sheet.getRange(lr,titleId,1,1).getValue()+" "+sheet.getRange(lr,titleId2,1,1).getValue();
createEvent(calendarId,title,start,end,desc);
}
function createEvent(calendarId,title,start,end,desc) {
var cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById(calendarId);
var start = new Date(sheet.getRange(lr,tstart,1,1).getValue());
var end = new Date(sheet.getRange(lr,tstop,1,1).getValue());
var loc = 'Computer Center';
var event = cal.createEvent(title, start, end, {
description : desc,
location : loc
});
};
The original article is located here: http://bruceburge.com/2012/09/05/automatically-adding-events-to-a-google-calendar-from-a-google-form-submission/
I just can't seem to get the dates to work at all... If I use the original code it works fine, but the time is the full day, not the specified time... I seem to have broken it in an attempt to make it work... Any help would be appreciated...

Answer 1

It was a lot simpler than I though... I just removed some of his lines (the ones that set the hour and minutes to 0. Once I removed that and changed a few things, I get the following which works just great:
//this is the ID of the calendar to add the event to, this is found on the calendar settings page of the calendar in question
var calendarId = "alcc.ccenter#gmail.com";
//below are the column ids of that represents the values used in the spreadsheet (these are non zero indexed)
var startDtId = 4;
var endDtId = 5;
var titleId = 2;
var titleId2 = 3;
var descId = 7;
var formTimeStampId = 1;
function getLatestAndSubmitToCalendar() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
var values = rows.getValues();
var lr = rows.getLastRow();
var startDt = sheet.getRange(lr,startDtId,1,1).getValue();
//set to first hour and minute of the day.
var endDt = sheet.getRange(lr,endDtId,1,1).getValue();
//set endDt to last hour and minute of the day
var subOn = "Added :"+sheet.getRange(lr,formTimeStampId,1,1).getValue()+" by: "+sheet.getRange(lr,titleId,1,1).getValue();
var desc = "Comments :"+sheet.getRange(lr,descId,1,1).getValue()+"\n"+subOn;
var title = sheet.getRange(lr,titleId,1,1).getValue()+" - "+sheet.getRange(lr,titleId2,1,1).getValue();
createEvent(calendarId,title,startDt,endDt,desc);
}​
function createEvent(calendarId,title,startDt,endDt,desc) {
var cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById(calendarId);
var start = new Date(startDt);
var end = new Date(endDt);
var loc = 'Computer Centre';
var event = cal.createEvent(title, start, end, {
description : desc,
location : loc
});
};
My form has the following Columns - Timestamp, Name, Absence, Start, End, Reason, Comments. They didn't need to be ne word but I changed them to one word headings because of the video example I was trying to follow... But the above code works miracles.

Answer 2

I had to modify the way Forms handles dates to accommodate Calendar
function createEvent() {
var form = FormApp.getActiveForm();
var cal = CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar();
var responses = form.getResponses();
var len = responses.length;
var last = len – 1;
var items = responses[last].getItemResponses();
var email = responses[last].getRespondentEmail();
var name = items[0].getResponse();
var bring = items[1].getResponse();
var date = items[2].getResponse();
Logger.log(date);
var replace = date.replace(/-/g,”/”);
Logger.log(replace);
var start = new Date(replace);
Logger.log(‘start ‘+start);
//Logger.log(newStart.getHours());
var endHours = 2+0+start.getHours();
//Logger.log(start.getDay());
var day = start.getDate();
var minutes = start.getMinutes();
var year = start.getFullYear();
var month = start.getMonth();
var hours = start.getHours();
var d = new Date(year, month, day, endHours, minutes);
Logger.log(d);
var event = cal.createEvent(‘Class Party ‘+name+’ brings ‘+bring, start, d)
.addGuest(email)
.setDescription(name+’ you will be bringing ‘+bring+’ to the party.’);
GmailApp.sendEmail(email, name + ’ a Google Calendar invite has been created for you’, name + ’ You filled out the Google Form for the date of ‘ + start + ’. Check your Google Calendar to confirm that you received the invite.\n’);
}