Question:
Is there a simple way to automatically share a calendar with users in a Google Organization.
Current Technology:
I am looking in to streamlining our calendars within our organization. We are using a Google business account for our calendars, emails, contacts, and we sync it all on to our Mac's.
Current Method:
When we add a new calendar for each office location, (1) we have to create calendar on the super admin account, (2) share it with everyone, (3) each user must accept the calendar, (4) then we use google Sync Select to add the calendar to their list, and (5) finally we sync it with iCal.
Issues with Current Method:
- Too many steps for a large group of users
- Cluttered calendars (since we all share a calendar based off office location)
- Difficult to assign specific events
Thanks in advance. Let me know if you need any more information!
Steps 1-3 can be done automatically through Google Calendar APIv3. You can create a service account, delegate the domain authority to it and then use it to create the new calendars and share them. Take a look into authority delegation here: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ServiceAccount#delegatingauthority
The documentation for API v3 is here:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/
Related
I have a google account with my company domain. I received super user status so that I can access all the calendars in the workspace. I registered my app and followed oAuth2.0 authorization steps with these scopes -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.resource.calendar
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar
Now I am able to read all the events and subscribe to the web_hook. My doubt is twofold -
For the same user, when I fetch the calendar list using CalendarList.list method (Calendar A), it is different from the list I get when I hit calendar list API from the admin directory side (Calendar B).
Is it because there are 2 sets of calendars being maintained for the user side and one from the admin side (that is domain wide)? If so, how can I modify or create an event in calendar B? (it is pretty simple from the UI side, I open my calendar and add that particular room to the meeting).
If there is a meeting (event) planned and I need to release the meeting room (i.e. the calendar itself because the rooms are coming as calendar resources themselves) from the meeting, which API should I hit?
Actually I need to simulate real life scenario where I have a meeting scheduled in a meeting room but then I want to keep the meeting but not the room, so that the room is no longer occupied and others might use it. It is during implementation of this flow that I had above 2 doubts.
Please help me out here as I am completely new to programming and it has been days since I started banging my head over it.
To answer your concerns, please see below:
Yes, that is correct. The calendars mentioned(user and admin) are completely different calendars. As for modification in calendar B, as long as you have the calendarId, you can use Events: insert .
The room should appear in the event resources and you can update it via Events: update.
I have been playing around with the Graph API to access the shared calendars and events within an organization.
I can successfully query my organization users and the calendar/events for any of those users. What I would like to do now is to generate a URL allowing you to jump to an outlook web session (eg - https://outlook.office365.com/calendar/) directly to a particular user's calendar (that you have access to).
I can see that Events have a 'WebLink' property that allows you to do this with a calendar event, but I can't find any documentation that indicates how you could jump to a calendar the same way.
I did find some old stuff implying that the old school OWA used to allow this but those url's don't look like they work anymore.
I also tried to pull apart the URL's provided when you 'share' you calendar with an external email address and it sends them a 'click here to add the calendar, or here to see a web view' etc email. That looked kind of promising because it actually DOES provide a direct link to a web version of the calendar; but it it includes a few fields in the URLthat I can't figure out (more than likely the external user auth) so I can't reverse engineer it to build one with the info I have available in the Graph API.
URL was of the form:
https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/<userid>#<domain>/<52CharacterHex_ProbablyAHashedTokenForTheExternalUsersAuth>/<WindowsUserSID_ProbablyToRepresentTheExternalUserOrProxyAccessEntity>/reachcalendar.html
Anyone else got any ideas on how I can launch a web session of another uses calendar (that I have access to)? Ultimately what I am doing is creating a small management dashboard (using a summary built via Graph API data) that shows an overview of a collection of user's calendars but allows you to jump into the any individual user's full calendar if more info is required.
Publish to the web. follow this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-your-calendar-in-outlook-on-the-web-7ecef8ae-139c-40d9-bae2-a23977ee58d5
basically
OWA -> Settings
Calendar -> Shared Calendars
Publish a Calendar -> copy HTML
I can see their calendars on the web when I sign on, can I retrieve this from API? I hope to be able to build an intelligent meeting assistant.
As seen in the Calendar Resource API docs right now:
The Google Data Calendar Resource API is now deprecated and is scheduled for sunset in January 2017. Apps should instead use the Directory API's Calendar Resource object.
As for the suggested Directory API, I think you could specifically use the resources.calendars.get which is described in the docs as (with parameters):
Retrieves a calendar resource.
Parameters:
calendarResourceId - The unique ID of the calendar resource to retrieve.
customer - The unique ID for the customer's Google account. As an account administrator, you can also use the my_customer alias to represent your account's customer ID.
-- where I think you can specify the user to get that specific calendar from.
All,
I was wondering if there is any way that you know of to automatically populate a Calendar in Office 365/Outlook based on what other users enter to their calendar.
The HR manager wants to have a calendar that shows when employees are out of office all in one place. Having a shared out of office calendar people can "invite" makes sense, however he believes people will forget to do this and it wouldn't be effective!
I've so far found no obvious way of doing this.
Thanks in advance.
The closest built-in feature to a global or master calendar is not a single calendar, but the ability to overlay multiple calendars in Outlook's Calendar module. External calendars would of course have to be shared/delegated to you first, but you would at least have a central point to view appointments from multiple people using this method.
However, if you prefer a single Calendar but need appointments from other Calendars in it, then you're definitely looking at synchronization - but you can't synchronize multiple calendars in Outlook natively. For that you'll need to look at a custom solution (such as an add-in) or third-party tools:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sharing/more-tools-and-utilities-for-sharing-data/
You could develop an app or a service that uses Outlook Calendar REST API.
Your service would poll the employees calendars, compare their status with a local database and create new events on your shared calendar using again the Outlook API.
I am developing an mobile app where I present products (items) from different stores just like ebay.com. User can select product, can add to cart and then finally can make payment via paypal.
I have created an Paypal business account on sandbox. Currently all payment made by users are coming to this business account I mentioned in my code. But my requirement is different. I want that payment should go to store's (product owner's) account.
So I made changes so that whenever i make call to paypal I chnaged business account email to store owner email address and payment done successfully. :) Payment posted to store owner business.
I made changes only in paypal.recipient email address but still paypal object is created by my paypal application ID. This is what I am worried about. Does it will work on production mode? I really doubt that.
Please help me guys!!!
What API or service are you using to do this? Are you just using Website Payments Standard, Exprses Checkout, or one of the other API? You mentiioned application id, are you using Adaptive Payments? You could use Adative Payments to do what you are wanting to, if you are not already doing this. This would allow you to process payments and split it between different accounts. In your business model, it would allow you to split the payments between different store owners if the buyers checkout contained items from different merchants/stores.