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Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by datguacdoh »

yathern wrote: post #49
SubiculumCode wrote: post #17

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…

Having rooms is supported - and shown in the actual blog post: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori... I can't see why you wouldn't be able to make a car a room - other than that the UI will stay say 'room reserved' or whatever.

Work at Google but not remotely on calendar, and this is exactly what we do with most public, bookable resources. We have PA systems, massage chairs, rooms, etc. all in calendar.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

#52

Post by CaptSpify »

stinky613 wrote: post #45

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

That's one of the reasons that I've been moving off of their platforms. I remember when they had light, useful, efficient pages that let you get your work done then move on. They've slowly been moving everything to large, slow, bloated, whitespace-nightmares while removing functionality.

If Google was starting as a new company today, there would be no way that I'd use any of their products.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

#53

Post by jasonkostempski »

stinky613 wrote: post #45

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

Ive gone through the same thing except with every product by everyone. I hate to admit it, but im pretty sure thats definition of cynicism.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

#54

Post by euyyn »

stinky613 wrote: post #45

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

I'm biased here, but after Inbox, and after the mobile Calendar apps being upgraded, I was super excited about the web Calendar upgrade. I love it.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by SubiculumCode »

datguacdoh wrote: post #51
yathern wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having rooms is supported - and shown in the actual blog post: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori... I can't see why you wouldn't be able to make a car a room - other than that the UI will stay say 'room reserved' or whatever.

Work at Google but not remotely on calendar, and this is exactly what we do with most public, bookable resources. We have PA systems, massage chairs, rooms, etc. all in calendar.

I was not aware of this feature. How long has it been included?

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by agmcleod »

euyyn wrote: post #54
stinky613 wrote: post #45

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

I'm biased here, but after Inbox, and after the mobile Calendar apps being upgraded, I was super excited about the web Calendar upgrade. I love it.

I generally like Inbox as well, feels faster than gmail. Though i've recently gone back to using a local client instead of the web. It's a bit of a change, but just feels simpler to use.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

#57

Post by nsriv »

pbh101 wrote: post #41

Am I just missing it, or did they get rid of the 'Quick Add' natural language parsing option (e.g. "Meeting with Fred tomorrow at 5p")? That has easily been the most valuable feature of Google Calendar since day one.

Good catch, I left feedback on this. Pressing "c" as a keyboard shortcut allows for the create event screen to be brought up, but it's no substitute.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by SubiculumCode »

pjschlic wrote: post #22
SubiculumCode wrote: post #17

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.

No that is pretty much it, although a little awkward. I wasn't aware of this feature, and must be fairly new. I was doing the rapla booking stuff 3 or four years ago.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

#59

Post by illicium »

swypych wrote: post #37

Google Calendar PM, please add the ability to add meeting room links to the little pop-up, rather then just the dynamically created ones from meet.google.com.

Assuming you have G Suite, create a calendar resource for the room, then add the room to the invite.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by AceJohnny2 »

stinky613 wrote: post #45

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

> Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed."

I think that's inevitable with any product with a bit of history that's accreted features.

Microsoft Office? Windows? iPhone? Thinkpad?...

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