Questions tagged [google-calendar]
For questions about the Calendar service provided by Google as accessed by a desktop or mobile browser. Questions about native smartphone apps are off-topic on Web Apps.
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Google Calendar's "This and following events" option when deleting a recurring event
When deleting a recurring event in Google Calendar, I only receive the option of deleting "This and following events" sometimes. When this option is not available, my only options are to delete the ...
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How to create events in Google Calendar through plain text with dates?
For now, according to this help page, we can at best create events on Google Calendar with plain text after we have selected a certain day. This is rather restrictive given that I recall creating ...
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Disable Google Calendar notifications for a specific event (Slack and Android)
I'm surprised this is so difficult.
The company I'm working at uses Google Calendar to schedule meetings. We were recently told to add recurring events to block off times when we're not available for ...
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Spark Mail by Readle not adding accepted calendar invites to my calendar
Anytime I get a calendar invite in spark mail when I accept it will not add it to my Google calendar. It even sends an RSVP to the person that sent me the invite but it won't add it to my calendar. ...
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How can I associate a street address with a Google Apps Calendar conference room resource?
Google recommends naming calendar resources, like conference rooms, like this NYC-14-12-Boardroom-15-VC. This means that when a user creates a meeting that will take place in that conference room, the ...
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Is there any way to zoom in on Google Calendar?
Feel a little silly asking this here, but any web results only returned issues related to G Calendar and the Zoom video call software.
I schedule many tasks in hour slots and with Google Calendar's ...
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Display Events in JCal Pro Calendar on Google Calendar
I have a Joomla! website, that uses JCal Pro to display the calendar.
Now, in my Google calendar, I want to import the JCal calendar into it. In other words, I want to display the contents of JCal ...
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Automatically turn on Gmail Vacation Responder from gCal 'Out of Office' events
I see some good scripts on turning on responder for 'every Friday', etc., but with the new gCal feature of 'Out of Office' events, is there a way to turn on vacation responder any time there is ...
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How to see the previous date/time for a Google Calendar event that was moved?
Suppose someone invited me to an event using Google Calendars. Some time later, they moved the event, and I accepted the move. Now, I want to see what the previous date and time of the event was, ...
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Delete hundreds of Google Calendar events created by Zapier
I set up a "Zap" with Zapier that was supposed to create a Calendar event every time I created a new contact. I added "whenever a contact is updated" to the formula and linked it to my contacts and ...
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Mapping Google Calendar events
I would like to display a Google Map with all of my calendar events such that the user can see points on the map relating to the locations of different events. When they click on the point it should ...
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How to prevent end-date shift when changing start-date in Google Calendar?
Any time I change the starting date of an event for example by extending it with an extra day (e.g. from 5th of July to 4th of July) the ending date gets shifted accordingly (e.g. 10th of July to 9th ...
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How to stop phantom notifications?
I've been rearranging the events on my Google Calendar a bit, and I've run into a bit of difficulty. Despite all of my notifications and reminders being turned off, I receive email notifications for ...
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How do I make free/busy checks work with the non-default calendar on Google Calendar?
My default calendar is my main/private calendar, but I want to share a second calendar and have it report proper free/busy times. When I share it and other people try to invite me, it says it can't ...
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How do you add an event from invitations to your non-default calendar?
I have two calendars in Google Calendar - my private one, which is primary and my secondary one, which is called "Work" for work-related meetings only.
Every time someone invites me to an event by my ...
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Block adding events to Google Calendar
We use Google Apps and Google Calendars for scheduling jobs, event date on calendar is ship date. I want to be able to block dates from new events to control work flow. Any ideas on how to block the ...
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Make pre-existing strings of single events repeating in Google Calendar
I imported a calendar from an external site onto Google Calendar for a church website. I need to string together separate events into one repeating event so that they can be edited en masse.
For an ...
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Color-code free and busy dates in Google Calendar
Events in Google Calendar can be marked as "free" or "busy". This information can also be provided to collaborators withholding any further event information. For the user creating ...
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Can I change my default meeting start time in Google Calendar?
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How can I get Google Calendar to create events at xx:05 instead of xx:00 by default?
People are weird.
My senior leadership is encouraging us to start meetings in our calendars at 5 minutes ...
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Google Calendar: deleting alert from recurring event invite doesn't stick
I have various recurring events I have been invited to on Google Calendar (GSuite). Some of them are not actually meetings or I am not interested in being alerted for them, yet they come preconfigured ...
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Google Calendar - How to Get Multi-Day Events to Show as Blocks of Time
I'm adding multiple blocks of non all-day, multi-day, events for my upcoming Code Fellows classes.
I've found that Google Calendar, in both the week and day view, has no way apparent way of showing ...
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Getting error when importing Facebook Upcoming events webcal to Google Calendar
I'm trying to import Facebook's upcoming events ics file into Google Calendar and getting the following error:
Settings Error
We could not parse the calendar at the url requested
Importing to ...
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Can Google Calendar load a custom Alternate Calendar?
In Google Calendar's settings, there's a drop-down labelled "Alternate calendar," with choices such as "Persian calendar" and "Hebrew calendar".
Is there a way to create and use a custom Alternate ...
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Remove shared Google Calendar event without deleting from sharer
I share a Google Calendar with another person. Sometimes they enter an event that I'm not interested in. What can I do so that I don't see that event, but without deleting it so that the other person ...
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Adding a recurring event in Google Calendar doesn't save the entire series
I've created and published a recurring event in Google Calendar. However, if someone adds the event, they get only the upcoming event, not the entire recurring series.
Is there a way I can make ...
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Create Google Calendar event from Gmail and add attachment from Email
Gmail provides the menu entry to create a Google Calendar event from an email conversation. However, this does not automatically attach any attachments found in the email conversation to the calendar ...
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Resend particular reoccuring meetings to 1 guest
I scheduled a reoccurring meeting and want to resend just three of the occurrences to just one guest. Is there a way to do that?
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How to setup Shared Google Calendar Notifications upon Event Creation
I have a shared Google calendar that myself and one other person adds events to.
Currently I use IFTTT to get an email each time an event is added. However this catches every event and does not say ...
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A way to show multiple Google Calendars as busy?
I use my Google Calendar everyday. I have multiple layers/calendars relating to my different responsibilities. When scheduling an appointment with a group of people, it would be most efficient for me ...
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Shared calendars no longer show up in the sidebar
My shared calendars no longer show up in the sidebar on Google Calendar. All of them show up in the calendar itself and I cannot see anything but all the colors of the people who are sharing a ...
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Google Calendar (Apps) popping up 2 alerts for each event
For my event reminders, Google Calendar insists on giving me two dialog boxes. I can disable events reminders altogether, but really would like to have just the one.
I am using Fluid 1.6.1 on OS X ...
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Limit Displayed Hours on Embedded Google Calendar
Is there a way to limit the hours displayed on Google Calendar that will also limit those hours when you embed that calendar on my web site page?
I am using the Labs Hide Morning and Night extension ...
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Is it possible to find public Google calendars?
I want to embed a Google calendar in my organization's intranet site. Google provides three options for sharing the calendar:
Make it visible to anyone in the organization
Make it visible only to ...
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My Google Calendar will be listed in Google Search?
To subscribe a Google Calendar e.g. in the Mac Calendar App, you have to create a public link to that Google Calendar.
The link obviously has to be publicly available, since you subscribe without a ...
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Automatically reject conflicting Google Calendar invites
How do I auto-decline invites that are overlapping with the events I have already accepted invite for?
Apparently, Google stopped supporting this feature and the Labs features is not even visible to ...
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How do I configure Google Calendar so that it renders events, longer than 24hrs, in hour cells?
I use Google Calendar intensively and it really helps organizing my daily work. But I still can't get used to the way it renders events longer than 24 hours. For example, here is a test calendar ...
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How to view multiple accounts on Google Calendar Simultaneously?
In the Google Calendar Android app you can have multiple accounts logged in & it shows the events of all accounts together.
How do I do this on desktop?
Note: Sharing calendars is not an ...
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Google calendar event notifications
when I load an event with a customised event notification pattern it does not appear on the guest calendar (it reverts to their default setting). How do I ensure the guest receives the same event ...
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Can I import a calendar and have that count toward my free / busy
In Google Calendar you can import other calendars into your display. For example, I imported my personal calendar into my work calendar.
However, items from imported calendars are not taken into ...
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How to restrict modification to event creator only?
I am trying to setup a shared Google Calendar where users can add and modify events they created but they cannot modify a different user's event. I know that the calendar app can allow one to modify ...
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Multiple Google Accounts - Adding Meet Up Events
I have three Google Accounts - my personal one and two I manage for two different clubs. Whenever I export a Meet Up event to my Google Account, the event always goes to the wrong Google Calendar. ...
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How to Create a Global Calendar in Google Apps
How can we make a calendar global in Google Apps? I want the calendar to appear in the "My Calendars" box when I type the name of the calendar.
So far what I have done is to create the calendar and ...
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Create a new user with limited access to internal user calendars
We are using Google Apps with Gmail and Calendar. The default settings for calendar visibility is set to shared, all internal users can see each other.
The task is to create a new user with limited ...
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Reverse availability in Google Calendar
By default, all times are assumed "available" in a Google calendar. Only once an event is inserted, the corresponding time slot is considered "busy". It is possible to define working hours, but this ...
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How to add an address I found in Google Maps into Google Calendar?
Is there a way in desktop browsers to import an address I found in Google Maps into Google Calendar?
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Create event with unique recurring rule in Google Calendar
I need to create a recurring event in Google Calendar that happens on the first Friday after (but not including) the 15th of each month.
I tried to use the "every third Friday" rule that is built in,...
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Can't properly select a date in Google Calendar with iMac Magic Mouse
The task is straightforward enough. I wish to click on a specific date from the calendar that appears on the left side of Google Calendar. Here's a screenshot:
Let's say I want to select the 24th. In ...
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Google Calendar notifications during the event
How can I get a notification of non-all-day event during the event?
Say I need to get to the bank for 5 mins anytime between 15:00 and 16:00 and I want to be notified at 15:00, 15:20 and 15:40. ...
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Summing up the amount of time spent on a given event title on Google Calendar
I use Google Calendar to track my time throughout the day.
Is there any convenient way to summarize how much time I have spent in a given activity in a given period of time? (E.g. how time I spent on ...
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How to determine the owner of an embedded Google Calendar?
I would like to change ownership of a shared Google Calendar that is embedded on our website, however nobody knows who owns the Calendar.
How can we determine the owner knowing just the HTML embed ...
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