I am ultimately trying to allow a User to schedule an appointment inside of my Google Calendar from a Rails application I built. First, I will need to retrieve a list of already taken Google Calendar events. I only know how to allow the User to access their Google Calendar events through Oauth2.0, but is there a way to allow every user to have access to mine?
I am not asking for any code, as much as I am asking for direction and clarification regarding this issue, thank you.
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Through a user's delegated permission, we have access to the calendar availabilities of other users (Calendars.ReadWrite.Shared). Thanks to this, we can find suitable meeting times for several stakeholders (user.findMeetingTimes) then send out invites from the consenting user's calendar.
However, we can't find timezone information anywhere: we need to know the timezone of other users so that we can properly schedule events based on time constraints.
Currently, we use an application scope MailboxSettings.Read that requires admin consent, but we have issues with some groups that decline to give a delegated admin permission. The only alternative I can see is an Oauth2 flow, for each user, to allow us to read this information, but this creates a lot of unnecessary friction for some very basic data.
Is there an alternative that I have missed? Thanks in advance for your help.
I am trying to find a way to read calendar events of my team and can schedule something based on everyone's availability.
I was able to fetch my calendar events successfully. But I am curious if we can get details of calendar events of my colleagues within my team or organization.
Is there a way we can achieve this?
If yes, it would be helpful if anyone can share some insights on this.
Thank you in advance.
If you grant the app permissions to read calendars from all users, then you can achieve what you want.
Then, you can get the list of users IDs from /users.
Using the IDs, you can retrieve the user calendars. If you only desire the available times in a scheduling assistant way, then you can use the Find Meeting Times API also.
I have a web application that allows users to sign in with their Google Account and create events on a Google Calendar. However, I only want one specific user to edit/delete already existing events in the calendar and all other users should only be able to add events to the Calendar.
A permission similar to this exists on Outlook, which has a permission called Non-editing author. Is the same available for Google Calendar?
both the events.insert and the events.update / events.patch require the scope of
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar read/write access to Calendars
Which technically gives a user access to read and write to any part of the calendar not just the events. Your application is going to have to limit access the calendar api does not give you this ability.
I'd like to be able to have admin users sign up in our system and have their Google calendar events be readable by everyone on the site. I'd like the customers to be able to see free slots on their schedule. Is this possible and how would I implement this in a Rails app?
Any suggestions? (I've read the OAuth and Calendar APIs, just looking for how to start setting up my app).
I am thinking to embed google calendar in my website to achieve the following and was wondering if this is doable in google calendar. Otherwise I have to go find another solution.
I have groups of users with one super user, and rest are regular users as follows:
GroupA
Super User 1
Regular User 1
Regular user 2
etc
Group B
Super User 2
Regular User 3
Regular User 4
etc
Each group have their own calendar. Users in each group can not see the other group's calendar. Only able to see their own group's calendar.
Super users of each group have all access to the calendar (add, modify, delete) and have the ability to control how much access regular users have in their group. (read only? read/write etc)
All users are registered to my website, therefore I am thinking to use only one google calendar account (my own account) to create a calendar for each group. Which leads to a question of authenticating my website to google's API. I need the authentication process to be automatic, hidden away from the user and be done on the server side.
My site is built using PHP/Mysql
Q1:
I have tried the Javascript client library provided by google, however it require the user to type in username/password to log into google so that the authentication (OAuth2) process can work. As mentioned in previous paragraph, I only want the user's to log into my website, they do not need to login again into google account. This should be done on serverside.
I even went as far to create a login form with information prepopulated (hidden from the user, the username/password will be visible in "view page source") and send the request to https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth, and make the form automatic submit once the user successfully login into my website. However this causes cross domain issues.
Q2:
I may potentially have 10's of thousands of groups registered on my website. each group may have couple hundred users. Can one single google account create that many calendars?
Q3:
Once the calendar is embedded into my website, it seems to be read-only. Is it possible to make it interactive so super users in each group can add/delete/modify events?
Any ideas/suggestions is much appreciated.
Thank you
No answers? It seems like your question is straightforward. If I understand correctly, you want to access calendars from several Google accounts/users. Each user needs to authorize this access, but they only need to do so once. You could generate these requests and send them out via email, for example. When the user grants permission, Google forwards a grant code to your specified callback_uri. The grant code is extremely volatile. It's used to request a token from Google that apparently lasts indefinitely. So there's no requirement that users continually log into Google.
In Google's calendar/simple.php example. The token is stored as a SESSION variable. Even though the token is persistent, the SESSION variable is not. Users have to grant authorization every time the SESSION variable expires. Storing persistent data in a volatile variable is absurd and probably gives the wrong impression about the OAuth2 token mechanism.
I spent a lot of time writing documentation that I couldn't find anywhere else. Please take a look if you think it might help: http://www.tqis.com/eloquency/googlecalendar.htm
What you're asking isn't possible in Google Calendar.
If you're looking to support thousands of groups and each group needs it's own calendar, then you're saying that you'd need thousands of calendars with access control and you'd need authentication to the calendar to be transparent.