For anyone having trouble with Vapi's Google Calendar tool (or even anyone who just wants more flexibility in the Calendar tool), here's a couple of examples of scenarios you can build in [Make](https://www.make.com) for your own, customizable Google Calendar tool. First, a scenario to check for calendar availability. This has two paths, depending on whether a calendarId was specified. If not, it finds the primary calendar and then searches for events. In the

Search Events

module, specify the start and end timestamp from the Tool Call and be sure to convert recurring events to single events, and to include all event types apart from Working Location. You then provide a response that just lists the number of events found. Secondly, a scenario to create an event. This has a similar structure. The only wizardry here is to split the comma-separated list of attendees into an array for the

Create an Event

module. This is made massively easier with the new

Watch Tool Call Request

and

Respond to a Tool Call

modules in the Vapi app in Make. More details on that in [my recent blog post](https://www.make.com/en/blog/make-vapi-powerful-combination-for-conversational-ai). https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1211484481848873020/1426167597837189171/image.png?ex=68ea3d94&is=68e8ec14&hm=16ecc158c72b3425a52cccc773c894f123b38f5f7048d641d5d38d92a2fcde64& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1211484481848873020/1426167598206418965/image.png?ex=68ea3d94&is=68e8ec14&hm=4f0e2911b41aa4515a2c423c44a7d64827df5ac2314ac87a4a2d4836f24645e2& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1211484481848873020/1426167598529249430/image.png?ex=68ea3d94&is=68e8ec14&hm=ef25cb7abe57046670aab0716db23d909d78cb0d457da17d5d7dba089205ae0d& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1211484481848873020/1426167598877507685/image.png?ex=68ea3d94&is=68e8ec14&hm=976f4210dee0ab3bb563ff8d0586f93e735a6f65cdad84eab1bedb767d91a966& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1211484481848873020/1426167599280033833/image.png?ex=68ea3d94&is=68e8ec14&hm=8d843c0eba892f28fc36405b94be576d98b1ebf6423072652a86dc47a83b98ae&