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Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by halflings » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:10 PM UTC

guiomie wrote: post #6

Seems like material design eye candy. Any ways to take a screen shot of your google calendar while hiding the titles? To share with external people to schedule meetings.

No need to go around sharing screenshots, there's a much easier way:

You can share [0] your work calendar with anybody you want (or if your company is using GSuite, they can give people access to their colleagues' calendars); if events' titles are sometimes confidential, you can either set those to secret, and people will see them as "busy" without any other information, or you can set your whole calendar to secret and all events will look that way.

You can also use appointment slots [1] if that works better for your use case.

[0] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en

[1] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/190998?hl=en

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by halflings » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:12 PM UTC

guiomie wrote: post #9

ggambetta wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that you want to share a screenshot of a web app to share with other people suggests that some workflows are broken and some features are missing :(

I believe the only way right now is to make the calendar public/shareable, while enabling the option to hide the event details. I do not want my calendar link public, I only want to show a defined timeframe snapshot. So yah, I think you are right.

Your calendar link will not be public, you only give access to one person and can hide all of the events' details. If that's still too much and you want to only share availability for one week, maybe you can use appointment slots?

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by guiomie » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

halflings wrote: post #11

guiomie wrote: post #6

Seems like material design eye candy. Any ways to take a screen shot of your google calendar while hiding the titles? To share with external people to schedule meetings.

No need to go around sharing screenshots, there's a much easier way: You can share [0] your work calendar with anybody you want (or if your company is using GSuite, they can give people access to their colleagues' calendars); if events' titles are sometimes confidential, you can either set those to secret, and people will see them as "busy" without any other information, or you can set your whole calendar to secret a…

Thanks for the help. Sadly the appointment slot functionality relies on having meetings set to secret, otherwise the person looking to schedule a slot can see everything, and you can also see any week. If I set the calendar to 'busy' for all meetings, my gsuite coworkers can't see my calendar anymore.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by SubiculumCode » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

halflings wrote: post #12

guiomie wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the only way right now is to make the calendar public/shareable, while enabling the option to hide the event details. I do not want my calendar link public, I only want to show a defined timeframe snapshot. So yah, I think you are right.

Your calendar link will not be public, you only give access to one person and can hide all of the events' details. If that's still too much and you want to only share availability for one week, maybe you can use appointment slots?

If I want to share today's schedule with someone, but do not want them to see my schedule tomorrow, what is my option? Screenshot.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by harigov » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:41 PM UTC

I hope this makes it easy to create/edit events without going back and forth between calendar view and event view, especially when you have additional details to add (like location). The current version of Google Calendar for the web is so outdated in terms of the functionality it offers and the way it looks.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by SubiculumCode » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

The update doesn't seem to be rolled out to me yet.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by SubiculumCode » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

I wish calendars would come with booking ability. If I want to schedule a conference room, a laptop, the company car, and the spare parking permit (for example), I have to go to four separate calendars. I'd rather be able to schedule an event and assign resources to it.

I've used Rapla (http://rapla.org/) for this in my lab, and it worked nicely. You schedule an event, it lets you know what resources are available for that timeslot.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by SubiculumCode » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:49 PM UTC

Another wish of mine for google calendar is to turn on a confirm move dialogue. It is too easy to move an event accidentally, and because all the time documentation in the event gets updated, I lose the actual time of the event. I've taken to embedding the date and time into text describing the event. PIA

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by AlphaWeaver » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:53 PM UTC

To force this update to Calendar without it being rolled out to you yet, you can use this query string parameter:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_opt...

EDIT: Apparently it might not save the preference, so you'd need to use this link every time.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #19

To force this update to Calendar without it being rolled out to you yet, you can use this query string parameter: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_opt... EDIT: Apparently it might not save the preference, so you'd need to use this link every time.

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