Questions tagged [google-calendar]
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How do I get "appointment slots" from Google Calendar to show up in desktop Fantastical / iOS Fantastical?
I've created "appointment slots" in the Google Calendar web-interface; they show up as events with a little 'four-square' icon next to their name:
Unfortunately, these 'events' aren't ...
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Use custom domain with Google Calendar
I have a Google account which I currently use to handle my emails and calendar. Regarding emails, I want to switch to my own domain, but continue using Google Inbox/Gmail. This works perfectly fine ...
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Automate auto-reply in new email thread
I'm currently trying to automate an auto-reply email with Google Apps Script for whenever I receive an email and there's an event named 'OOF' in my Google calendar. I have very basic knowledge of ...
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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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Invite workspace group email as optional? [closed]
Months ago I recall (maybe incorrectly) that in Google Calendar with my Google Workspace account I was able to invite Workspace groups (a group with an email address) to events and specify them as ...
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How can I change Google calendar to view all 24 hours for each day in the week view mode, without having to scroll? [closed]
Problem: When I go to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r, I don't see all 24 hours for each day. Instead, I only see between 5 AM and 6 PM (I greyed out all my events for privacy):
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Lock calendar view to a certain part of the day
Is there a way to get Google Calendar to show only the relevant part of the day? I don't want to scroll up and down. Is there a way to lock the view to, for example, 7am to 9pm?
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Workarounds for quick add in Google Calendar?
I often get event information in Text format like this:
Fri 7:30 Live From the Spanish Ballroom: Gretchen Midgley
Fri 8pm Evelyn and her New Orleans Jazz Band - LIVE from NOLA
Sat 6:30 Movin' & ...
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How to get total event time of Google Calendar events into Google Sheets based on certain conditions?
In my company we work with project sheets where each project lead maintains an overview of the spent hours (compared to total hours) of each project, per person working on the project. We use ...
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Scroll google calendar month view one week at a time, to span 2 months partially - "vertical scrolling"?
Since years, I'm annoyed when trying to scroll in month view. It always jumps to the beginning of the next month. This feels really bad and sometimes makes it hard to visualize and understand how ...
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Create Google Calendar event from Gmail message without adding recipients to Guests list?
Is it possible to change the default behavior of the Gmail "Creat event" button? Currently, if I click the "Creat event" menu button, a new tab opens to the Google Calendar "...
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How to fit 15 minutes onto Google Calendar in single lines [closed]
I divide my time up to 15 minute intervals.
But Google Calendar seems to want to treat all of my reminders as needing 30 minutes to display, even if they are spaced 15 minutes apart, resulting in half ...
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Next to the last Saturday repeating Google Calendar event
How do I create an event in Google Calendar that repeats on the next to the last Saturday in July?
@Tedinoz I created an ics file with the RRULE you mentioned. In Apple calendar, it added it on Jan 1, ...
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Is there a way to remove the "Tasks" calendar in Google Calendar?
A "Tasks" calendar appears in my list of "My Calendars" in Google Calendar. It's only a minor irritation, but I have a small screen, I don't want it and never plan to use the Task list. Can I stop it ...
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TasksBoard on Safari does not sync [closed]
My TasksBoard is not syncing with my Google Calendar and my TasksBoard app (using Safari). It shows a loading indicator at the top screen, and when I try to refresh it raises the above quote:
Some ...
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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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Google Calendar is Not Syncing with Gmail Meeting Invitations
I am having an issue where Google email (Gmail) meeting invitations are not syncing with my Google Calendar.
Example, I get an meeting notification in email, and when I accept, it's not showing on ...
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Extract Google Calendar data to Google Sheets
I'd like to extract events from Google Calendar for a dynamic range: from (today) to (today+28), giving me a 29 day range of data.
How can I specify that using Google Apps Script?
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Can recurring events be displayed distinctively in Google Calendar?
When I schedule a frequently recurring event, it overwhelms the real events in the calendar. That is, I quickly learn to ignore it, and so often fail to see the other events that are the same colour ...
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Create shared Google calendar, sharing everyone's events without showing details
I want to create a shared calendar with a group of friends, showing everyone's availability, without everyone having to go out of their way to create a detail-less copy of all their personal events to ...
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How can I export a single event as an ICS file from Google Calender? [closed]
How can I export a single event as an ICS file from Google Calendar?
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How to add UK Mothering Sunday and Father's Day to Google Calendar?
I use Google calendar and the "Holidays in the United Kingdom" calendar doesn't include Mother's Day (in the UK) and Father's Day as they are not actual holidays.
Is it possible to add events for ...
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Why does my Google Calendar event, with "no end date" suddenly end?
I created a recurring event on my Google Calendar for "Work" from 8 am to 5 pm, that repeats every weekday, when I started my current job back in 2013. Today, I was making plans to take a day off, and ...
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Default to 'More Options' in Google Calendar [closed]
In Google Calendar, when creating an event, I always utilize the options under 'More Options' (creating an all day event, modifying notifications, etc). I know it's only an extra click away, but with ...
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Google calendar moving invite
I'm trying to do a few things with Google Calendar and can't get one thing right:
I have many calendars defined (for better organization).
For example I have one named "Training" with a nice ...
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How do I make an event in google calander repeat everyday except every 4th day?
My workout routine is 3 days of exercise then a rest day, so I can't just make it every Monday or whatever, I want a few events that I normally do after my workout to be moved back 20 mins
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How can I change task color in Google Calendar?
I have google calendar with google tasks enabled.
I want to change color of some tasks.
For example most important tasks will have red color and all others tasks will have blue color.
So how can ...
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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 make a task repeat on the last day of each month in Google Calendar?
Pretty much the subject says it all. How can I make a task repeat on the end of each month in google calendar.
Jan 31- repeated task
Feb 28 - repeated task
march 31 - repeated task
april 30 - ...
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How to set public Google Calendar embed URL to use client's local time zone?
I've embedded a public google calendar
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=WEEK&src=alecjacobson%40gmail.com
This shows the calendar using New York's timezone (my calendar's default), ...
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Google calendar automatically unchecks Reminders
I've been using Google Calendar for a long time and organizing events, reminders and tasks. But Its reminder items occasionally disappears and I have to manually check the Reminder box on the left ...
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Google Calendar: guest accounts don't trigger notifications
I have a Google calendar and several guests subscribed to it.
When I create an even in the calendar itself, all guests get notifications email about new event (also for changed event or cancel event).
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Import large calendar into Google Calendar
I tried to import a calendar file (.ics file) into Google Calendar, but it gave me an error message:
Processed 0 of 0 events
The file you tried to import is too large
How do I import it?
I tried ...
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Automatically generate a weekly overview of google calendar via mail? [closed]
I want to set up a Google Calendar where appointments that are relevant for a group of people will be annotated.
However, not all of them will be using google calendar. Thus, I wanted to generate a ...
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Why aren't ics attachments send to my IEEE address working in Gmail anymore?
When I get emails about appointments from our Outlook server, they attach a .ics file to the email which contains the account details. This used to work fine, giving me the option to add the event to ...
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How can I get my TripIt calendar to show up on Google Calendar?
I want to see my upcoming TripIt travel plans on my Google Calendar. I thought I would just be able to subscribe to my TripIt ical feed from GCal, but it doesn't seem to work.
I got my ical feed ...
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How can I change the privacy settings for all events on my Google Calendar?
I have quite a few events in my Google Calendar and they are all set to Default privacy.
My Google Calendar sharing preferences is currently set to "Show free/busy only":
But I would like to change ...
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Can I “opt out” of Google Calendar while keeping my Gmail account?
I would like to handle invitations manually (in iCloud, actually) without any invitations, events, or anything showing up in my Google Calendar account.
Because if that’s the case, there will be a ...
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Google Calendar not showing updated entries from iCal URL
I've created a new Google Calendar to display entries from an iCal URL. Both methods, described below, were used to accomplish this:
Google Calendar → Other Calendars → Add by URL
Google Calendar → ...
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Integrating Office 365 Calendar with Google Calendar
I am trying to integrate a offiche-365 calendar to google-calendar. The purpose is to use the ical from the google calendar in a 3rd party app where I can only read Google Calendars.
However, ...
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How to make an event repeat on the Wednesday following the 3rd Monday of every month in Google Calendar or iCal file format? [closed]
Is this possible to do in Google Calendar or .iCal format?
I've explored rrule.js options at this site.
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Monthly repeating event for Monday before last Friday of a month in Google Calendar
I need to set up a repeating (monthly) event for the Monday preceding the last Friday of a Month in Google Calendar (or macOS calendar). There's no way to create this directly using the calendar app/...
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Sync, not export, Facebook events with Google Apps calendar [closed]
I have tried this before but didn't get anywhere.
I have a Google Apps account of my own domain that I use for email, calendar and contacts. I sync all of these with my iPhone.
I would like to sync ...
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Show calendars that are shared with my Google account in third-party calendars (iCal, Fantastical) [closed]
My work uses Exchange, so I use Fantastical on mobile and Apple Calendar/iCal on my Mac to display both my work calendar (in Exchange) and my personal Google Calendar.
I have two calendars in my ...
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Google Calendar is showing canceled repeating meetings [closed]
My main calendar is on my mac in the macOS Calendar app. I have shared the URL from that calendar, into Google so I can easily see my calendar on a Windows machine also (which I don't need often, ...
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iCal recurrence rule misbehaving
I have a long list of events that recurs every day, Monday through Saturday. I generated the following ics file: https://pastebin.com/j4yjbXFb
However, when I import this into Google Calendar (or any ...
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How do I allow web calendar links for Goole Calendar on Windows 10 MS Edge?
On Windows 10, using Microsoft Edge, Google Calendar asks me to allow it to open web calendar links.
Occasionally, Google Calendar pops a pop-up message asking me to let it open web calendar links. I ...
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Automatically import ICS to Google Calendar in Chrome on Linux [closed]
This questions has been asked and answered before (e.g., on Ask Ubuntu) but this doesn't work anymore, at least for me.
At some websites you can download ICS files for events. Is there a way in which ...
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Double clicking on an ics file to add to my google calendar? [closed]
It's been a decade since this question has been posed here and the answers there have been outdated for nearly that long.
There is absolutely no reason why it should be difficult to configure double ...
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In google documents, is there a reason why a calendar events are not insertable as smart chips?
I'm editor of a company Google Document, and I want to insert in that document events from a Google Calendar (for which I'm owner) which is also shared to the whole company. Notice this is a secondary ...
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