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 colorize weekends in Firefox
I'm currently using the following to colorize weekends in Google Calendar in Firefox (week-view):
@-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.google.com/calendar/") {
td.tg-weekend {
background-color:...
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Google calendar multiple calendars
I invited someone to share a calendar but when she clicked on the link the new calendar appeared to be merged with her already existing calednar and she freaked out because she thinks everyone can see ...
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How can you have a way to tell who made an event on a shared google calendar? Different colours?
I'm sharing a google calendar with people who aren't good with computers. Is there an easy way to tell who made what event? I was thinking, is there a way for me to set the default background colour ...
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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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Is there a way to embed a fully-functional (NOT read-only) Google Calendar into a website? [closed]
I'm building a website to help a friend who schedules piano lessons. They use Google Calendar to track lessons, and I'm building a website for them to manage students, lesson packages, etc.
The ...
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Can Google Calendar be customized via user-provided "Labs" features?
Google Calendar has the option of being customized by enabling features under the "Labs" setting. I would like to make my own customizations similar to these Lab features. Is this possible?
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How to export Facebook birthdays permanently?
I found the obvious information about how to 'import' Facebook birthdays into Google Calendar. Yet, this is not a true export/import, it just shows the Facebook birthdays in my Google Calendar without ...
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Google Calendar and XKCD sleep (events repeating in hours)
So there is this.
This is a bit of a confusing schedule to follow I think, at least for the first little while. It would be handy to be able to put it into, say, a Google Calendar so one could work ...
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Automatically creating events related to a new event in Google Calendar
Does anyone know of an existing tool that will let you automatically create multiple events whenever a new event is added to a Google Calendar?
The use case is if you always have the same pre/post ...
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Calendar plugin to sync with Facebook Page events [closed]
I'm developing a website for an organisation that, until now, has used Facebook as its only online presence. The organisation wants all information currently available on their Facebook page (please ...
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Synchronise two Google accounts
Since 1994 my primary email has been AOL (which I have grown to hate and want to delete). Years ago I set up an anonymous blog on Blogspot with a silly (dumb) Gmail address. Since then I have become a ...
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Google Calendar Sync changing meeting organizer of recurring appointment in Outlook 2010
In Outlook 2010 I have created a recurring meeting with my non-gmail e-mail address. After a Google Calendar Sync, Outlook does not recognize me as the organiser anymore. If I look in Google Calendar ...
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Synchronising Facebook events with Google Calendar [duplicate]
Is there any way to keep the two synchronised? So when a new event is added to facebook (regardless of attending or not), it comes up on google calendar?
I've tried pasting the webcal link from ...
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Where can I find a list of calling numbers used by Google Calendar SMS service
I frequently use SMS notifications in Google Calendar, but I seem to receive the SMS message from a different sending number each time. So my SMS list is full of different "random" numbers.
I'd like ...
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In Google Calendar, is there a way to open appointments in a new browser tab instead of in the same tab?
In Google Calendar, from the main calendar view, is there a way to have appointments open in a new browser tab when clicked, instead of opening in the same tab (the default behavior)?
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Merge 'regular' Google account calendar with a Google Apps for your domain calendar
I have a 'regular' Gmail account, and a Google Apps for your domain account through one of my clients.
I use the calendars in both accounts, but there seems to be no good way to view events from both ...
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How can I set which Google calendars are being synced to my iPhone?
I've set up my iPhone (with iOS 5.1.1) to synchronize contacts and calendars from Google via Google Mail.
However, I only see the Default calendar on my iPhone, whereas all my other private calendars ...
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How can share a private Google Calendar to anyone with the link?
Google Docs has three types of document sharing. Public to anyone with the link and viewable in search results; only viewable to those you invite to it; and the compromise: viewable only to anyone ...
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How to display Google Calendar events on multiple lines?
I would like to use more the vertical space of my screen when looking at Google Calendar and I would like to be able to display an event on multiple lines if its title is longer than cell width.
Here ...
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I made my Google Calendar in the wrong account. Can I copy and paste it to the right one?
I forgot to log out of a different account in Gmail and I made a bunch of changes to the calendar. Can I copy it to the other account?
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Google calendar freezing up on my iMac
My Google calendar freezes up on my iMac [at home, where I use Safari] but I never have this problem on my PC [at work, where I use Mozilla]. I can't make appts or see details of existing appts. I ...
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Accepting Other Peoples Invitations
All of a sudden, when someone sends me an invitation for an event in Google Calendar, and I accept that event, it always shows up later as not accepted and awaiting my response. Then I click accept ...
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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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Is there anyway to sync Outlook's calendar with Google's calendar?
Is there anyway to sync Outlook's calendar with Google's calendar? I've tried following this before but it doesn't work properly. I'm using Windows 7 and Outlook 2010.
The thing is, it's really easy ...
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Google Calendar Delegates?
I've decided to start using my Google Calendar through iCal on my Mac. Although I've got a question regarding an annoying issue I'm having.
When I go about adding calendars to my Google Calendar and ...
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Synchronise Exchange Calendar and Google Calendar
I'm trying to synchronise an Exchange Calendar into a Google Calendar that I have set up through an account I just made. What I'm trying to accomplish is, on the back end of seeing my Google Calendar, ...
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Exporting Facebook page events to Google Calendar
We're developing a website for our non-profit book café. We're using Google Calendar for booking meetings and movie showings and lectures and everything else, but we're also using our relatively ...
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Google Calendar sending the same SMS each day at a specified time
How can I set Google Calendar to send me the same SMS Daily (or every Thursday or after every 45 Days) at a specified time?
If this is not possible in Google Calender, then is there any other Web App ...
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Insert hyperlink in Google Calendar's description field
I need to insert a link in my Google Calendar, but when I write out the description field with https://www.google.com/, it's just normal text.
I've tried to write <a href="https://www.google.com/"&...
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Is it possible to share a Google Calendar so that only people with the URL can see it (but no login required)?
I want to create a calendar for a private organization. I want everyone to be able to see the calendar without a loggin but don't want the calendar to be "public" (searchable).
I.e., accessible/...
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Trouble loading/syncing Ziplist calendar into Google Calendar
I'm having trouble loading/syncing my Ziplist calendar onto my Google Calendar. It loads from the URL, but doesn't upload the complete calendar.
Also, how long does it take to synchronise any updates ...
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Google calendar sharing
I am a Google Apps administrator in the process of transferring a multitude of secondary calendars from a previous Google account. So following advice from Easiest way to transfer Google data between ...
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To do web app with calendar view and Google Calendar import [closed]
Is there a Todo webapp which presents tasks in a calendar view which imports my events from Google Calendar so that task scheduling (at best with a hourly granularity) becomes less tedious?
With the ...
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Google Calendar changing primary calendar events' time
On my primary calendar on Google Calendar, any time I create an event, the event time gets moved to 3 hours prior to the time I specify. This does not happen immediately, but after a short time (e.g. ...
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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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Showing start and end times in Google Calendars
In Google Calendars is it possible to show start and end times of events, without having to write them in the description?
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Custom weekends in Google calendar
My workplace moves workdays to weekends, and weekends to workday: for example, Friday, March 9th is weekend but Sunday, March 11th is a workday.
How I can mark these new weekends as weekends in ...
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How can I batch delete events from Google Calendar? [duplicate]
I have few events in my Calendar that are scheduled weekly at the same time with the same name.
Because of some issues with syncing between Outlook/Hotmail Calendar/Google Calendar these events are ...
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Is it possible to display the Notes from a diary event in Google Calendar?
I'm trying to set up a calendar for my sports club and then embed the calendar in Google Sites. I'm going to default it to the Agenda view, but when the user opens it up, I'd like them to see the ...
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How do I change date format at top of day in Google Calendar?
I can change the date format for most dates displayed by my calendar to Irish format, however I can’t find how to change this one.
The dates at the top of each day are shown as 5/17 or Month/Day—as a ...
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Google Calendar won't remove a task already removed from Remember the Milk
I have a Remember The Milk Pro account. I decided that I want to see my tasks in my calendar, so I imported the RTM Events iCal into Google Calendar. This functioned well for a long time.
Recently, ...
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How to change `time range of one day` in Google Calendar?
As the screenshot below, I want to get rid of the period from 0AM to 5AM which is useless to me. How can I do that?
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How do I merge Google calendars together?
Within one Google apps account, I have 2 Google Calendars (called Program1 and Program2) with >100 events.
How do I merge the events from both calendars into a single calendar? Program 2 has now ...
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Adding birthdays and anniversary to Google Calendar
I know how to add a yearly event but is there an option to add birthdays and/or anniversaries to Google Calendar?
I am not talking of the "Birthday calendar" but manually adding a birthday event to ...
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Split or individually edit repeating Google Calendar events
Our company just moved from Microsoft Exchange with Outlook to Google Mail, Calendar, etc. and I am trying to modify a calendar event where it repeats, but the times across the days are not the same.
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Is it possible to load additional events into a Google Calendar from an ICS URL?
I have a list of courses that I publish as an ICS file and have a Google Calendar that uses its URL as a source. This works very well.
What I would like to be able to do is take a standard Google ...
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Can you set events to be private by default in Google Calendar?
Is it possible to set your Google Calendar events to be private by default? I don't want to mindlessly add public items to the calendar.
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Why an event cannot be dragged above 11:00 pm in Google Calendar?
I post an event in Google Calendar, say for example from 12:00 am - 1:00 am. I tried to extent that particular event to the whole day till 11:30 pm, but I couldn't extend it more than 11:00 pm. Is ...
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Subscribe to Google Contacts Birthday Calendar from Hotmail
I'm currently trying to subscribe to my Google Contact's Birthday calendar from Hotmail, so far without success.
I've used the ical link from the calendar settings in Google to create the ...
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Migrate/import Gmail calendar to new Gmail user account?
Can I migrate (import?) my calendar from an old Gmail account to a new Gmail account? I have a new user id.
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