Can I share one public calendar with another user using Google Calendar API? so when I update the calendar everyone gets the update too, without enter to my website again.
I saw that I can create a calendar and add events, but what I want is to share my calendar not create a new one in another user account.
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I am trying to add a feature to my website that allows users to add an event created on the website to their calendar.
Basically the app allows users to schedule a meeting and after which the meeting is sent to the mail of members of the site. What I want to do is to add a link with the meeting details to the site so users can click on it to add the event to their calendar, majorly google and office 365 calendars.
I have tried initially with google calendar apis but I can't seem to figure out what to do with the apis given. I was going to try with schema (with reference from google calendar api) to allow users to execute click actions but I realized it wont allow me to add events to the calendar but could be used to trigger certain actions which is not what I need at the moment.
I am building the app with laravel and can send the markdown email alright just need to be able to allow users a click action to add events to their calendar.
Thanks in advance.
Lance, the action taken when an ics file is clicked upon depends on the users application and their personal setup. For example on my desktop I have it set that a .ics file will be opened in notepad++, whereas my iphone will have a more standard response. Then in Google for example it will automatically show events in google calendar that it has found in my gmail emails.
Other than sending the .ics in email, Some other things you can do:
offer a 'Add to Google Calendar' button with html link. More info here: Link to add to Google calendar. This prompts add to default calendar.
Example:
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=Friday%20Drinks&dates=20200501T080000Z/20200501T090000Z&location=407%20King%20St,%20Newtown%202042&trp=false&details=Regular%20Friday%20Night%20Get%20together%20at%20Earls%20Juke%20Joint
OR
offer a subscribable link on the website, unique to each user, of all meetings arranged. Once they have subscribed they will automatically see new ones. These would show in a separate calendar though.
I'm not aware of an Outlook 365 equivalent of the google 'TEMPLATE' - possibly they just go with the single event .ics.
You could use ics files, which are supported on most platforms.
A sample PHP Library is https://gist.github.com/jakebellacera/635416
I'm working with Google calendar API, all my site is about to manage my appointments.
Now I'm integrating Google calendar to my site, so if I add or update any from my site the same are going to change in my Google calendar. If I change details in calendar I need to get my site DB updated via Push mechanism. Now I've established connection/mechanism to update the event details so if I change the date/time in my calendar my code is changing my DB with respect to Google calendar new date/time on that event via Push.
But I'm not sure how to delete any event which I delete in my calendar, for example:
If I delete an existing appointment in my calendar, that needs to be deleted in my DB too so it wont list on my appointment list.
Can someone help me how to track event deletion from Google API?
Is there a flag to notify at all?
Deleted events have status set to "cancelled".
If you want to also have cancelled events included in the events list requests, you should specify showDeleted=true as a request parameter.
Check out the documentation for details
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/list
I've been researching this question for the last few weeks and have had no success trying to connect to Google through OAuth1 OR 2.
I have a client that needs a separate Calendar for each of the homes they are building. On creation of a new home in the database, I want to create a calendar and save the Id of the created calendar.
What options do I have to do this?
It seems like the only way is to have the user get redirected to Google and login to add a calendar... I want to use a static Google account and simply create the calendar that way, without having the annoying "Login to google" screen.
Google api lets you to do whatever you need with a Calendar using their provided libraries. Let's take a look: Google Developer: Instantiate Google Calendar
This SO posts discusses that. Specifically pay attention to the line in the accepted answer where it is mentions the process for adding a new calendar is similar to adding an event.
SO: Google Calendar API Selecting and creating Calendars
I also came across this tutorial which may be helpful in terms of other actions on the calendar once it has been created.
IBM Developer Works: Integrate your PHP Application with Google Calendar
I am creating a php website that uses the Google Calendar API. It's working fine with Create, Update and Delete: any event from the PHP website goes into my Google Calendar events after login.
Events created on my site are created in Google Calendar.
What I want now that is: when I create an event from my test page it goes into Google Calendar after login, then if I update or delete that event from Google Calendar then it should automatically update or delete the php website event.
Basically: 1-way sync is working fine but now I want 2-way synchronization.
If anybody has any ideas then kindly share with me, it will be much appreciated.
There are no application hooks in Google Calendar (gCal) that allow you to trigger an action when an event is deleted. Instead you must either poll gCal at intervals (this could be a cron job every few minutes/hours) and update your calendar accordingly, or any time you perform an action from your calendar have a 1 in X possibly of a full re-sync.
This implies that you are using the gCal as the definitive source, and mirroring those changes back to your local application.
well, after following these answers and building a hole 2 way sync process,
i realized there's a push notifications for calendar since 2013.
you will still need a full sync process because the push notification only notifies about a change but no data about the change.
hope it will save you some time.
Push Notifications
Would it not be an option for your system to generate an iCal output at a special, user-specific URL, and then have the user subscribe to that calendar in Google Calendars (or their iCal-reading calendar of choice)?
That way, your system would always hold the authorative calendar, and Google Calendar would reflect any changes you make automatically.
Alternately, if you are wanting changes in the Google Calendar to be reflected in your application, then you may be able to subscribe to iCals for the User's Calendar, and then poll them at a regular interval to reflect any changes the User has made at that end.
I would lean towards the first option (your iCal subscribed through Google Calendar), as it is a simpler and easier solution.
I have successfully saved all the events from my custom calendar to Google calendar with PHP script. But whenever i try to sync same calendar again, i see all the events are recreated & duplicated. Is their any Google Calendar API clue that might help remove the duplication?
Please help.
Regards.
I am asuming you are using the iCal interface.
We did a similar implementation a while back (not using php but anyways).
What we used to keep this duplication away was that after we had created a new event in the google calendar we fetched from google and found this event. Then we keept track of the "CREATED" part of the iCal file that we got back from google, and simply used this as a reference to know both what have been synced and to be able to link items in google calendar and our side.