Track new events someone else created in a shared Google calendar via email or notification

Question

I use several shared calendars as part of my business. Often with several people editing and adding events to the calendar, sometimes weeks or months in the future, it's difficult to know and keep track of what people are adding into the calendar.

Is there a way to track and get updates on all new events that are added by someone other than yourself in a shared calendar?

Answer 1

You can enable the "changed events" notifications to receive notifications of events that change using the settings menu.

• Go to the settings menu (the gear), select the Calendars tab, and go through to edit the notifications of the specific calendar for which you want to receive these notifications.
• Enable notifications for "changed events" from the menu of different triggers - http://screencast.com/t/Z4n5qUezDv

This also applies to the "new events" trigger, but that relies on your email being invited to the event.

Answer 2

I have created a simple, free Android app for this purpose, you can find it here:

Calendar Watcher on Google Play

You can select which calendars should be watched and it will display status bar notifications for each change in these watched calendars (but also for your own changes):

Answer 3

You need to share the calendar with this person and set their access permissions to 'make changes and manage sharing'. Details on how to do these things is at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en. It's unfortunate that you need to give them this level of access in order to get the notifications to work the way that you want.