Merge duplicate events in shared Google calendars

Question

In my Google Calendar I have visibility over several shared calendars. If multiple people who share calendars with me attend the same event, I can see the event quite a few times.

Example screenshot:

Question: Is there a way to change my settings such that I can see all shared calendars, but it will condense identical events into a single entry?

Answer 1

Google Calendar does not provide a way to merge the same event that appears in multiple calendars, and Google has been oblivious to requests to do so dating as far back as 2009 -

• Sharing Calendars creates duplicate events - 2009-Jan, closed
• General ability to hide events in shared calendars - 2010-Jun
• Suggestion: hide 'duplicate' event on shared calendars - 2013-Mar, closed
• Hide events on a shared calendar of mutual attendees - 2013-Jul, closed
• 2014 Hide events duplicated across multiple calendars thread - April 2014 request, summarizing years of previous requests. Closed.
• ... and the only active thread - Feature request: ability to hide events in shared calendars

The only solution is to use a Chrome extension, gcal-multi-event-merge

Answer 2

Try out the Google Chrome Extension (new link) here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/event-merge-for-google-ca/idehaflielbgpaokehlhidbjlehlfcep