Questions tagged [google-calendar]

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Explain "Allow calendar.google.com to open all web calendar links?" [duplicate]

I've opened https://calendar.google.com in Chrome. I see an icon in the address bar. When I click on it, it displays this dialog: Allow calendar.google.com to open all web calendar links? [ ] Allow [ ...
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Import / Sync Google Calendar Events with Facebook Page?

I see lots of "how to" guides regarding getting Facebook events into a Google Calendar. But I need to go the other way: GCal > Facebook. The events could show up either in the standard FB "events" ...
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How to Customise Week Number for Google Calendar?

Google Calendar has a Week Number calendar that neatly adds the week numbers as little icons to my calendar. However, I want the numbers to start halfway through the year, not from January. Is it ...
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How to add more than two time zones to Google Calendar?

I need to add 3 if not 4 time zones to my Google Calendar, but I do not see the option for this. What would be the way of achieving this?
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Restore reminders in Google Calendars

I accidentally switched back to Google Tasks in Google Calendar. I still have my reminders, I can see them on Android, but the reminder calendar is gone from the web app, and I can't see my reminders ...
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How to remove one religious holiday without removing all religious holidays from Google Calendar [duplicate]

My calendar has the holidays in my country by default. One of them is Halloween. This is a holiday that is part of the "(Country) religious holidays." This is not a day I celebrate; I ...
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Forward event invite to new Gmail

A coworkers emails were being sent to spam when emailing people outside of our organization. This was because someone previously had the same email as her in our system and must have gotten flagged as ...
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How to show yourself as "Busy" for events shared with you where you are not an attendee

When someone is scheduling a meeting with me, I've configured it so they can see my "Free/Busy" status. This is great, however, I also have a shared "team calendar" which has ...
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Unified calendar view that is shareable [duplicate]

I have 2 calendars, personal (Fastmail) and freelance (Gmail / work). I followed my personal calendar with my work one using a url generated in the Fastmail UI. Now, in my freelance calendar I can see ...
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Is there a way to show Google Calendar events in local time?

AFAICT, in Google Calendar, a calendar has a time zone and an event has a time zone. So you can enter an event and specify that it takes place at, say, 12:00 Eastern Time. If your calendar is also ...
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Why can't I change the name for my Google Calendar in Apple's Calendar app?

I've got several Google personal and Google Workspace accounts and have all of them connected to my Apple Calendar client. For all of these — except one — I'm able to change the name for the calendar ...
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how to move a meeting to a different calendar without sending a decline to the organizer (google suite)

I like to organize my meetings in two different calendars (personal and work). I also have some work-related email come to my personal email address. How can I accept the invite but have it show up in ...
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How can I show Google Calendar invites from my alternate email address? [duplicate]

I have an alternate email addresses set up in my Google account settings. Now some people frequently sent me Google Meetings using this alternate email address. However, these invites don't show up in ...
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How to create a (recurring) Google Calendar Out of Office Event?

I’m going through the Google Calendar API, and I can’t find a way to mark an event as "Out of Office". I work from home every Thursday — and by default in the Google Calendar one cannot make ...
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Sync Office 365 calendar to Google calendar

I could not find an up to date question about how to sync an Office 365 calendar to Google calendar. I do not wan't to use an application designed to use the desktop version of Outlook like OggSync ...
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Disable daily notifications from Google Calendar App in Slack?

How do I prevent the Google Calendar App from sending me a daily notification about my events for the day? There is no setting provided to do this. My choices seem to be either not to have any Google ...
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Can I query/search Google Calendar for all recurring entries with end dates?

How can I query/search Google Calendar for all recurring entries with end dates? What I need is a list of: Distinct scheduled meetings Which are recurring But ONLY those where recurrence ends (either ...
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How can I show or hide multiple calendars with one click?

I use Google Calendar at work and I have access to lots of my coworkers' calendars which makes the view pretty messy, so I mostly keep them hidden. Is there a way (maybe with some plugin or extension) ...
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Receiving invite responses on non-primary Google Calendars

I have set up an additional (non-primary) Google calendar and sent out a bunch of invites to events on it. After awhile I noticed I was only seeing responses from other Google users. Hoping it was ...
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Google Calendar shareable link doesn't work -- I don't see a request for access

I'm trying to share a Google Calendar with a friend, but I can't get the end-to-end process to complete. I don't want it to be public, only people I share the link with. Here are the steps I followed: ...
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Send invite to Google family calendar from Outlook

Invites TO my personal calendar are simple, send to my gmail address. Invites that come FROM my family calendar come from family[numbers]@group.calendar.google.com. I tried sending an invite to that ...
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Can't right click to change an event's color on Google Calendar

I used to edit my events' colors on Google calendar by right-clicking the event to choose a different color. But that feature seems to have gone for me?? Now I have to click the event, click edit, and ...
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Options to create a .ics url from google sheet

I have a set of events that our department is coordinating (lectures, gatherings, etc) I want to provide a .ics url that people can add to their Google (or outlook or whatever) Calendars via [+ Other ...
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Is it possible to link to specific date on a public Google Calendar?

I help run a small single day BarCamp-style unconference event, and we publish our session schedule (as it evolves) on a public Google Calendar. We would like to create a short link (eg. http://cal....
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How to set default notification settings in Google Calendar?

Is it possible to set up the default notification settings for newly created events in Google Calendar, e.g. instead of: I would like to see something like:
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Gmail Calendar - Popup Notifications not working

I'm getting email notifications, but no pop-ups on Windows-10 desktop (in Chrome), and nothing on my Android smart phone. I'm afraid to missing meetings now after relying on this feature. My ...
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RSVP "Yes" or "No" to recurring Google Calendar event based on day of week

Let's say I'm invited to a recurring meeting on Google Calendar that is scheduled for every Wednesday, and Friday. However, I have a permanent conflict on Fridays, so I can only make Wednesdays. Is ...
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Google Calendar recurring event on specific date

I just started to use Google Calendar. I would like to create an event that happens on the 4th of each month. I've seen that I can make an event that happens on Tuesday every 4 weeks, but that is not ...
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How can I print Event details in Google Calendar?

Is there a way to "pretty print" the event description? I want all the details Who, When, Where and Description for a particular event.
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How to hide/delete individual holidays on Google Calendar?

I enabled US holidays on my Google Calendar. However, there are individual "holidays" that I do not want to show up on my calendar since they are irrelevant to me and I don't want them to ...
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How to see Google Calendar from GMail?

My GMail used to have a side-widget that showed my upcoming Google Calendar events. A few months ago they removed it because (???). Now the only way to see my upcoming events is to manually view my ...
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Easiest way to transfer Google data between accounts

Previously we had free accounts with Google for our Calendars, Contacts etc. We are now signed up as App Business and have new accounts. What is the easiest way to transfer: Google Calendar Google ...
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Increase the notification interval for Google Calendar

Google Calendar events are generating notifications 10 minutes in advance - but I would prefer longer e.g 30 or 60. How can that be configured? There is not any such setting under Settings | ...
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Google Calendar event for last day of short months

I want to set up an event in Google Calendar that repeats on the last day of every month that doesn't have 31 days. The reason being my wristwatch has a manual date indicator with 31 days so I need to ...
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How can I change the name that shows up on Google Calendar Invites?

When I send a calendar invite, my name shows up as "david". I'd like to change to my proper name. I haven't found a way to change it. I obviously want to change it for all the invites I send. Any ...
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Show calendar invites that are sent to a non-gmail address but forwarded to gmail in my google calendar

I use my google account as my main calendar. Synched on all my devices and apps. I usually receive all calendar invites there too, with all my email addresses forwarded to gmail. Now sometimes I've ...
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How can I respond to Google Calendar invitations from my alternate email?

I have two separate mailboxes setup with Gmail: '[email protected]' which is available publicly, and [email protected] which I keep private. Any email invitations sent to [email protected] are auto-...
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How to stop sunrise from auto populating events in Google Calendar

There's a new Sunrise entry every day in my Google Calendar. How do I stop it?
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Show availability/busy status across multiple Google calendars

I'm currently connected to three Google calendars. One is my office calendar where I keep track of my work plans when I am focusing on certain projects and whatnot. Another is where I keep my ...
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Shared Google Calendar shows without colors

I just worked hard creating a Google Calendar and invited a few Google users. They got the invitation and opened it, but for them it shows all the events in blue—no event colours as I edited it. Why ...
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Making a single Google Calendar event that users can subscribe to via a link?

I'm planning an event using Google Calendar, but I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible. I'd like to: Give users a link to the event, so they can add it to their own calendars (either Google ...
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How can I filter all event or meeting responses coming in without extra context in gMail?

I am looking for a filter that removes emails automatically from my inbox if they are responses to events and meetings set up in google calendar. I want this to be as smart as possible Keeping ...
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Can I view the mobile version of Google Calendar on my desktop?

Do I need to mess around with the user-agent, or is there a less intrusive 'hack'?
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To-do list for Google Calendar: tasks with no due date

I'd like to manage a to-do list using Google Calendar. I can see how to create tasks in Google Calendar. However, each task is forced to have a due date. It appears that the due date always shows ...
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Setting reminders in friends shared Google calendar

If I share a Google calendar with a friend and add events to it, is there some way that I can set reminders for those events in his instance of that calendar?
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How to give access to Google calendar - no invitation email sent

There are steps how to do so. In particular Share a calendar with specific people On your computer, open Google Calendar. You can’t share calendars from the Google Calendar app. On the left, find ...
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Can I show a list of events with Google Calendar?

Currently on a web site that I help administer, we have a custom built calendar built with PHP. The web site is for a performance group, and they have various categories of performances. For ...
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Quickly navigating to a date in Google Calendar

How can I quickly navigate to a given date, say, a past date about 2 years ago, in Google Calendar? Currently have have to click on the previous month button about 20 times. I have tried entering ...
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Google calendar missing events (desktop)

My gym's app lets me book classes and then add them to my calendar. This works fine on my Android phone, but the items are missing when I view on desktop. I've tried manually sync'ing too but to no ...
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How can I make a personal Google calendar show times as busy when coworkers of mine schedule appointments with our Google Apps at work?

I have a personal Google calendar, associated with my own personal Google account, and a work Google calendar, as part of my office's Google Apps setup. Whenever co-workers of mine try to schedule ...

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