# Event reminders

**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/event-reminders/25663
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/event-reminders/25663 "2022-10-13T05:26:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![squareclamp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/squareclamp/32/8402_2.png) [@squareclamp](https://forum.mautic.org/u/squareclamp)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/event-reminders/25663/1 "2022-10-13T05:26:20Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 4.4.3  
My PHP version is: 7.4  
My Database type and version is: MariaDB 10.3

**Your problem**  
Hi,

I’m looking for ideas on how I could implement reminder emails to users. Here’s what I’m designing for. User registers appointment on website, send confirmation emails immediately and reminder emails 1 day and 1 hour before the appointment.

I’m thinking of have custom item - appointment associated with user and appointment has appointment time. Is there a way to access current date or time when comparing values in this prompt in campaign builder? Any other suggestions to achieve the same goal would be great. Thanks!

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/b/ba67d9c7aeb1df30b17e32f02a64757943285d59.png)

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### Author: ![squareclamp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/squareclamp/32/8402_2.png) [@squareclamp](https://forum.mautic.org/u/squareclamp)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/event-reminders/25663/2 "2022-10-13T06:01:36Z")

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Seems like this can be done by using date custom field on contact and “date” operator. But date operator is not available for date fields in custom item.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/4/425d72e5997046cc5dbedc5b8498444abb56cc31.png)

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### Author: ![robm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/robm/32/260_2.png) [@robm](https://forum.mautic.org/u/robm)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/event-reminders/25663/3 "2022-10-13T10:56:42Z")

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I assume by custom item you mean a custom field?

When you set up your custom field did you set it as a date field?

I can’t see any other reason why the date operator would not apply to a custom field that is date formatted.

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### Author: ![squareclamp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/squareclamp/32/8402_2.png) [@squareclamp](https://forum.mautic.org/u/squareclamp)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/event-reminders/25663/4 "2022-10-13T13:44:35Z")

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Thanks for looking into this Rob. I forgot to mention I’m using custom objects plugin.

And here’s what my custom object looks like -

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/5/5c93f1e4286cdf776ff070e44e57b1e64df9c745.png)