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This page describes how to work with todos in Zulu, and shows examples of how they will appear in Apple Reminders

Prerequisites

Zulu must be installed: Zulu - Installation
Your calendars must be published: How To Publish Calendars
A Todo Layout must be specified in at least one of your calendar records.
Recent versions of Apple Calendar and Apple Reminders require an SSL certificate installed on the Zulu server. You may need to install a valid certificate on your server in order for Apple Calendars to work with Zulu: Troubleshooting Adding Calendars

Todo Components

The Simplest Todo

The only thing a todo needs to be created, is the summary field filled out:

Once this todo is marked complete, you will see the zulu_STATUS and zulu_COMPLETED fields populated automatically:

Using The Note and zulu_DUE Fields

The Note field allows for a bit more description about this todo, and this description will show in the Apple Reminder interface. The zulu_DUE allows you to specify a date when the todo is expected to be complete.

Using The Priority Field

The zulu_PRIORITY allows you to specify the urgency of this todo. Apple reminders uses numbers to correspond to the level of urgency:

1 - High
5 - Medium
9 - Low
(empty field) - No Priority

Using The Activity Field

The zulu_ACTIVITY is used to give the todo an actionable icon that can be clicked to perform some activity. This is best described through examples.

You can initiate a phone call from a todo by storing the value: "tel:7702349293" in the zulu_ACTIVITY field:

You can open a web page by storing the value "https://google.com"

You can use an fmp url to open a FileMaker database:

Alarm Components

Timestamp Alarms

Timestamp alarms allow you to trigger a notification to the user at a specific date and time. You can supply a timestamp in the zulu_ALARM_TRIGGER_TIMESTAMP.

Only the timestamp needs to be supplied. When the alarm is created in Apple Reminders, Zulu automatically populates the alarms uuid back to FileMaker in the zulu_ALARM_TIMESTAMP_UUID.

Proximity Alarms

Proximity alarms allow you to trigger a notification to the user they arrive or depart a location.

Bare Minimum Proximity Alarm

At the minimum, the zulu_PROXIMITY, zulu_ALARM_LATITUDE, and zulu_ALARM_LONGITUDE need to be filled out. This will create a valid proximity alarm, but you will likely want to add some more details. As you can see from the screenshot, some of the fields show "null" and would look a little confusing to users.

Adding More Detail To Proximity Alarm

Using the zulu_ALARM_LOCATION_TITLE, we can supply a title for this location. This could be an address or some user friendly data that we want to show on the alarm.

This is a little better, but there is still that annoying "null" value, showing on both the Todo List, and the info panel. We can add something here using the zulu_ALARM_COMPLEX_TITLE.

This field takes a URL Encoded string, and will display the result. Simple values like "Work" or "My%20Home" will display. But we can take advantage of the fact that url encoding is used to get a number of symbols to show up here, including emojis.

For example, take this string of text:

🏢Work

When URL-encoded, this becomes:

%F0%9F%8F%A2Work

If we supply this in our zulu_ALARM_COMPLEX_TITLE field, we can see the emoji and the work "Work" in our todo.

Zulu - Working With Todos

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