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Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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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.

I've recently built a small web app to share your calendar (with hidden event titles) via a private link: https://cal.tf/

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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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…

Is the process of adding 'rooms' which are actually arbitrary 'things' (like your laptop, company car, or spare parking permit which is picked up from reception) in calendar not a viable hack for some reason? I imagine this can scale to whatever you want to reserve.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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I just want to be able to easily schedule a 15 or 45 minute long meeting :P

You can change the default meeting time to 15 minutes under settings. Once you have done that, just clicking defaults to a 15 minute meeting. You can already drag a 30 minute meeting to a 45 minute meeting pretty easily. This is close to what you want, but it does not solve the problem of being able to easily click and start a meeting at 9:15 with a 15 minute duration. Microsoft Outlook (desktop application) has a way to change the default intervals (example: 4 divisions show for an hour if you choose 15 minutes versus 2 divisions for 30 minutes) shown on the calendar - that would be a nice feature for Google to add.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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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.

Trying the link "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r" after upgrading, seems to work as well.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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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.

Doesn't seem to work on GSuite

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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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…

I don't know how this was set up at my work, but there is a separate section to add rooms, and it only lists the rooms that are open during that time. (Unfortunately the list includes every building owned by the company, so I scroll through 10 other buildings to find mine..)

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

#27

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…

Is the process of adding 'rooms' which are actually arbitrary 'things' (like your laptop, company car, or spare parking permit which is picked up from reception) in calendar not a viable hack for some reason? I imagine this can scale to whatever you want to reserve.

I meant I wish Google Calendar would have a resource reservation system. Rapla allows resources to be scheduled. You cando this in Google Calendar only by separately making events for each resource's calendar.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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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…

Outlook can do this.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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post #25

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.

Doesn't seem to work on GSuite

Yeah, that's only for the consumer variety.

We just have to wait for rollout

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